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Advocacy Overview

New Gun Violence Prevention and Children's Safety Law: What Will It Accomplish? (April 2013)

LWVCT Urges Support for Sensible Legislation to Reduce Gun Violence (March 2013)

Please click here to read the LWVCT Statement on Gun Violence (December 2012)


Advocacy Contacts
  • Vice President of Public Issues:  
    (advocacy@lwvct.org)
  • LWVCT Public Issues Team
  • League Partners in Advocacy

Overview

League advocacy is carried out by League volunteers.  We testify at hearings, provide press conference statements, write letters to the editor and opinion editorials, and submit other written communications to public officials.  

The League of Women Voters of Connecticut (LWVCT) retains the limited services of a legislative monitor to track bills on which the LWVCT has a position.  We also retain a part-time, paid lobbyist to support LWVCT volunteers who lobby on LWVCT legislative priorities.

To find out about the Connecticut General Assembly, the legislative leadership, the types of committees and more, click here.

“Be a 10-minute Activist" - Join the Grassroots Lobby Corps! 

Current Advocacy Priorities
  • Election Laws
  • Gun Laws
  • Transportation

Our Areas of Advocacy Focus 
  • Government: We work for a governmental system that is representative, accountable, and responsive.
  • Natural Resources: We work for the protection and sustainability of natural resources.
  • Social Policy: We work for equal rights and equal opportunity for all, and promote social and economic justice and health and safety.

Our Positions
  • LWVCT Impact on Issues
  • LWVCT Positions in Brief (updated October 2011)
  • Impact on Issues, LWVUS

Action Alerts
  • LWVCT, state
  • LWVUS, national

Resources
  • How a Bill Becomes a Law
  • “Be a 10-minute Activist" - Join the Grassroots Lobby Corps 

The LWVCT Advocacy Team in Hartford:
“To Do” List 2013 


Advocacy Topics
  • Air Quality 
  • Campaign Finance Reform 
  • Climate Change+Energy
 
  • Death Penalty
  • Election Laws, Open Government, Ethics
  • Gun Laws

  • Health Care+Mental Health
  • Housing
  • Land Use

  • Media Issues
  • Reproductive Choice
  • School Funding + Educational Cost Sharing

  • School Start Time 
  • Transportation
  • Waste
  • Water

Legislative Wrap-up 

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