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8 CEA ADVISOR OCTOBER – NOVEMBER 2020

Which 2020 Legislative Candidates Made CEA’s Honor Roll? Meet this year’s education champions

Honor Roll

Before you cast your vote, find out which candidates are top education champions. CEA’s Honor Roll recognizes legislative candidates recommended by CEA’s Political Action Committee (CEA PAC)—a group comprising teachers across the state—and approved by the Board of Directors. These include legislators who earned the highest scores when it came to voting with CEA on key education issues in 2019 (the last full legislative session), ranging from classroom safety to minority

teacher recruitment. Many advocated strongly for education-critical bills and showed leadership in bringing those bills up for a vote. Some legislative candidates running have not held office and, therefore, do not have voting records that the CEA PAC can evaluate. However, even non-incumbents can earn a spot on CEA’s Honor Roll. All candidates were given questionnaires asking for their views on issues important to teachers. The CEA PAC was able to consider their responses to the questionnaires as

well as their engagement with CEA staff, leaders, and members, their participation in

personal virtual interviews held throughout the summer, and any elected positions previously held. Meet CEA’s 2020 Honor Roll candidates— true education champions. Find your state House and Senate districts at cga.ct.gov/asp/menu/ cgafindleg.asp .

Don’t see your legislators here? Find out how they scored on CEA’s report card by visiting cea.org/legislator-report-card .

STATE SENATE HONOR ROLL

DIST. 19 CATHERINE OSTEN (D) INCUMBENT Columbia, Franklin, Hebron, Lebanon, Ledyard, Lisbon, Marlborough, Montville, Norwich, and Sprague DIST. 22 MARILYN MOORE (D) INCUMBENT Bridgeport, Monroe, and Trumbull

DIST. 1 JOHN FONFARA (D) INCUMBENT Hartford and Wethersfield

DIST. 9 MATTHEW LESSER (D) INCUMBENT Cromwell, Middletown, Newington, Rocky Hill, and Wethersfield

DIST. 2 DOUGLAS McCRORY (D) INCUMBENT Hartford, Bloomfield, and Windsor

DIST. 10 GARY WINFIELD (D) INCUMBENT New Haven and West Haven

DIST. 3 SAUD ANWAR (D) INCUMBENT East Hartford, Ellington, East Windsor, and South Windsor

DIST. 11 MARTIN LOONEY (D) INCUMBENT New Haven, Hamden, and North Haven

DIST. 24 JULIE KUSHNER (D) INCUMBENT Bethel, Danbury, New Fairfield, and Sherman

DIST. 13 MARY DAUGHERTY ABRAMS (D) INCUMBENT Cheshire, Meriden, Middletown, and Middlefield DIST. 16 JACK PERRY (D) CANDIDATE Prospect, Southington, Waterbury, and Wolcott DIST. 17 JORGE CABRERA (D) CANDIDATE Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Bethany, Derby, Hamden, Naugatuck, and Woodbridge DIST. 18 ROBERT STATCHEN (D) CANDIDATE Griswold, Groton, North Stonington, Plainfield, Preston, Sterling, Stonington, and Voluntown

DIST. 25 BOB DUFF (D) INCUMBENT Norwalk and Darien

DIST. 5 DEREK SLAP (D) INCUMBENT West Hartford, Farmington, Burlington, and Bloomfield

DIST. 26 WILL HASKELL (D) INCUMBENT Bethel, New Canaan, Redding, Ridgefield, Weston, Westport, and Wilton DIST. 28 MICHELLE LAPINE MCCABE (D) CANDIDATE Easton, Fairfield, Newtown, and portions of Weston, and Westport DIST. 35 LISA THOMAS (D) CANDIDATE Ashford, Chaplin, Coventry, Eastford, Ellington, Hampton, Pomfret, Stafford, Tolland, Union, Vernon, Willington, and Woodstock

DIST. 6 REP. RICK LOPES (D) CANDIDATE Berlin, Farmington, and New Britain

DIST. 7 FREDERICK MOFFA (D) CANDIDATE Enfield, Suffield, Windsor Locks, East Granby, Somers, and parts of Granby and Windsor DIST. 8 KEVIN WITKOS (R) INCUMBENT Avon, Barkhamsted, Canton, Colebrook, Granby, Hartland, Harwinton, New Hartford, Norfolk, Simsbury, and Torrington

STATE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HONOR ROLL

DIST. 1 MATTHEW RITTER (D) INCUMBENT Hartford

DIST. 23 DAVID RUBINO (D) CANDIDATE Lyme, Old Lyme, Old Saybrook, and Westbrook

DIST. 12 GEOFF LUXENBERG (D) INCUMBENT Manchester

DIST. 2 RAGHIB ALLIE-BRENNAN (D) INCUMBENT Bethel, Danbury, Newtown, Redding

DIST. 15 BOBBY GIBSON (D) INCUMBENT Bloomfield and Windsor

DIST. 25 ROBERT SANCHEZ (D) INCUMBENT New Britain

DIST. 6 EDWIN VARGAS (D) INCUMBENT Hartford

DIST. 17 ELENI KAVROS DEGRAW (D) CANDIDATE Avon and Canton

DIST. 26 PETER TERCYAK (D) INCUMBENT New Britain

DIST. 7 JOSHUA HALL (D) INCUMBENT Hartford

DIST. 27 GARY TURCO (D) INCUMBENT Newington

DIST. 18 JILLIAN GILCHREST (D) INCUMBENT West Hartford

DIST. 9 JASON ROJAS (D) INCUMBENT East Hartford and Manchester

DIST. 30 JOANN ANGELICO-STETSON (D) CANDIDATE Berlin and Southington

DIST. 20 KATE FARRAR (D) CANDIDATE West Hartford

DIST. 11 JEFF CURREY (D) INCUMBENT East Hartford, Manchester, and South Windsor

DIST. 33 BRANDON CHAFEE (D) CANDIDATE Middletown

DIST. 21 MIKE DEMICCO (D) INCUMBENT Farmington