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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday September 7, 2018 Heather Somers Endorsed by Connecticut Association of Realtors, Representing Over 17,000 Members GROTON — State Sen. Heather Somers of Groton accepted the endorsement this week of the Connecticut Association of Realtors in her bid for re-election in the 18th Senate District. “I am incredibly honored to receive the […]
The state will be giving Electric Boat $20 million for dredging to support the launch of submarines from a new dry dock and manufacturing superstructure being built in Groton, and $8 million for workforce training programs to support the submarine builder. The money was approved by the state Bond Commission on Wednesday. At Fort Trumbull […]
Connecticut’s economy continues to struggle. We are fortunate to have a legislator like state Senator Heather Somers, R-Groton, who knows we need to take bold steps to turn this around. Somers should be commended for her leadership in seeing that the sales tax on boat purchases is reduced to 2.99 percent starting July 1. This […]
Groton — Republican delegates to the party’s convention unanimously endorsed incumbent Sen. Heather Somers this week for the 18th District state Senate seat. Somers was elected to the seat — which covers Groton, Stonington, North Stonington, Preston, Griswold, Voluntown, Sterling and Plainfield — in 2016. “I am incredibly proud that in just over one year […]
State Sens. Paul Formica, R-East Lyme, and Heather Somers, R-Groton, are urging support for a bill that would provide $10 million in state funding over the next five years to train advanced manufacturing workers for Electric Boat and other employers across the state. They say the proposal will send a message to the Navy and […]
When running for lieutenant governor on the Republican ticket with Tom Foley in 2014, Heather Somers privately urged the Foley campaign to aggressively exploit a vulnerability of the Democratic incumbent, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. Somers wanted to loudly call out the Malloy administration’s policies that allowed inmates more opportunities to earn early release, an approach […]
The state health department would take over inspections, an outside panel would monitor conditions, and workers would be legally required to report mistreatment in a bill born of the patient-abuse scandal at the maximum-security Whiting forensic facility. The measures would be a first step in changing a culture behind Whiting’s walls — a climate that […]
HARTFORD — Republican Senate leaders are calling for a public informational hearing and the release of two University of Connecticut Health and Department of Correction medical reports pertaining to an inmate’s delayed cancer diagnosis, which lawmakers are calling “gross negligence.” Senate Republican President Pro Tem Leonard Fasano of North Haven, Sen. Heather Somers, R-Groton, and […]
Mystic — A panel of Stonington fishermen and fishing industry lobbyists repeated their perennial cries against the federal government’s fishing quotas at an event hosted by state Sen. Heather Somers on Wednesday night, telling an audience at the Mystic Luxury Theatre that the regulations could cause the demise of their industry. Somers invited Stonington and Rhode Island […]
Citing a crisis in medical care behind prison walls, legislative leaders on Wednesday called for an inquiry, and renewed a request for a report on 25 botched medical cases, including eight inmate deaths, that the Department of Correction has refused to release. State Sen. Len Fasano of North Haven, the Republican president pro tem, said at a […]