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RTC Chair Wants to Change Back

An economic crisis created by overreaching politicians pushing social engineering programs, and exacerbated by profit-centric investors who exploit the intentional political holes in such experiments, created a perfect storm that wreaked havoc on many of our families, friends and neighbors here in Wilton. In 2008, voters cried out for "change" from these forces, but what they got instead was a marked and dramatic push to even greater intrusions into our private lives and businesses.

In 2008 we looked for change we could believe in, we did not ask to change what we believe in.

Gail Lavielle, Toni Boucher, John Hetherington and all our Republican candidates on row A believe as you do, that the supermajority in Hartford and Washington has taken advantage of a crisis and expanded the government beyond what we the people believe in. Like you, our Republican candidates believe that good governance follows examples set across the kitchen tables of Wilton, Fairfield County and Connecticut.

This belief is set forth in a Common-Sense Commitment to Connecticut that guides them:

? SPEND NO MORE THAN YOU MAKE

? BORROW ONLY WHAT YOU CAN AFFORD TO PAY BACK

? IF IT'S NOT BROKEN, DON'T FIX IT. BUT IF IT'S NOT WORKING, GET RID OF IT

? THE MORE GOVERNMENT TRIES TO DO, THE LESS IT DOES WELL

? GOVERNMENT DOESN'T CREATE JOBS, PEOPLE DO

? WE SHOULD HAVE ALL THE GOVERNMENT WE NEED, AND ONLY THE GOVERNMENT WE NEED

? EMPOWER LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO MAKE LOCAL DECISIONS

This has been our Common-Sense Commitment to Wilton - and why Wilton has been, and remains the place we all love. It is the Republican Party's Common-Sense Commitment to Connecticut, a commitment carried by Gail Lavielle, Toni Boucher, John Hetherington and all the Republican candidates on row A. It is a commitment that you will see carried in the legislation they introduce, vote for and sign into law. It is a commitment against which you should measure each candidate and, if you do, you will find they stand head and shoulders above the pack, standing up for Connecticut and her citizens.

Connecticut is at a crossroads. We can go back to the business-as-usual, one-party legislative approach or, together, we can recover, reform, and reinvent the way our state works.

Whatever your party affiliation, balancing a budget requires balance in the legislature and a common-sense commitment to Connecticut. Vote for that commitment and bring balance back to Connecticut. On Nov. 2, vote for Gail Lavielle, Toni Boucher, John Hetherington, and all the common-sense candidates on row A – the real change we've been waiting for.

Al Alper, Chairman

Wilton Republican Town Committee

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