Showing posts with label Frank Nicastro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frank Nicastro. Show all posts
May 22, 2014
Democrats renominate Nicastro, Wright
July 26, 2013
Nicastro grateful for Imagine Nation funding
Press release:
GOV. MALLOY FOR IMAGINE NATION FUNDS
State Representative Frank Nicastro (D-79th
District) thanked Governor Malloy and the State Bond Commission for
approving the release of $137,000 in state funding for the Imagine
Nation Preschool Learning Center in Bristol. The funding
was approved by the State Bond Commission at their monthly meeting July
26 at the Legislative Office Building.
“It is state money being spent in the right place
for the right purpose, our children,” said Rep. Nicastro. “Their
preschool is a well-run operation that prepares young people for
kindergarten and beyond. The Imagine Nation is a very well
deserving group whose program supports working families.”
The Bristol Imagine Nation Preschool Learning
Center will use the funds to upgrade its security system and make needed
renovations and handicap accessible improvements.
The preschool is located in the
Imagine Nation Children's Museum at 1 Pleasant St. in Bristol and
provides daily access to all the learning and interactive centers of the
museum.
April 23, 2013
Anti-gun legislators 'a bunch of cowards'
One of Bristol's representatives on the state Democratic Committee, Joella Bouchard Mudry, this week called lawmakers who voted against the gun bill "a bunch of cowards" and declared she would not work for their reelection.October 20, 2012
Nicastro, Betts and Welch gain CBIA's backing
October 10, 2012
Alford: Nicastro failed to 'exhibit any leadership' on budget, taxes
Mary Alford, the GOP candidate for the 79th District state House seat, who is taking on incumbent Democrat Frank Nicastro, issued this press release:
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Nicastro Needs To Explain Budget Votes!
(Bristol) 79th
Assembly District candidate Mary Alford, endorsed by both the Republican and
Independent parties today challenged her opponent’s votes on the state budget
that increased taxes by two billion dollars.
“From the night of my
endorsement, I have said that Representative Nicastro needs to explain his
voting record.” Alford continued, “As Election Day nears, the time has come to
ask the questions that Bristol residents deserve to have answered.”
While Nicastro voted against the
overall budget, he voted “No” on the proposed Republican budget that would have
paid the bills without raising taxes. He also voted “No” on every Republican
amendment that removed the most troubling tax hikes from the budget. “If Mr.
Nicastro was truly opposed to the sales tax increasing to 6.35%, or clothing
getting taxed from dollar one, he had a perfect opportunity to say so by voting
yes on those amendments. He didn’t.”
“His votes against a budget that
included these taxes while also voting against the Republican proposals to
eliminate these taxes is an inconsistency that demonstrates a lack of
leadership. “ Alford added.
Alford said, “We need and deserve
representatives who are going to stand up and be leaders in Hartford. We need and deserve representatives who will
develop proposals that do not require constantly raising taxes. Mr. Nicastro,
as an Assistant Majority Leader, was well positioned to be a leader in this
debate. Yet, he did not exhibit any leadership qualities. By simply voting No
he abdicated his responsibilities to Bristol residents.”
“As your next State
Representative, I will hold quarterly town hall meetings to keep you informed
and seek your opinions and thoughts on what is happening in Connecticut so that
I can be your voice in Hartford.
May 24, 2012
Nicastro praised for axing unfunded mandate
Back in early April, one of Bristol's representatives to the Central Connecticut Regional Planning Agency, John Pompei, was so pleased with the work that state Rep. Frank Nicastro did to strip away an unfunded mandate on local governments that he wrote a letter praising the lawmaker's efforts.Nicastro had shepherded through a measure that wiped out a requirement that cities and towns provide all sorts of paper records about proposed subdivisions to regional planners -- a costly process -- and replaced it with a provision that the material could be sent electronically instead. The material was also required to be sent via certified mail, which added to the cost.
Pompei, a Republican, said the new rule -- which is now state law -- will save municipalities lots of money. But the legislature's fiscal office said it would result in less than $1,000 in savings for towns and cities statewide.
Even so there is at least one unfunded mandate that quietly vanished this term.
May 23, 2012
Alford takes aim at Nicastro's 79th District
Two-time Republican mayoral candidate Mary Alford, who nearly upset
Mayor Art Ward last fall, is taking aim this year at the legislative seat held
by Democrat Frank Nicastro.
Here is a copy of Alford's speech to the city's GOP on Monday night:
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Alford, a 64-year bookkeeper, jumped into city politics in
2009 when the GOP asked her to serve as its standard bearer in a three-way
contest that Ward ultimately won by a wide margin.
But last year, in a rerun of the 2009 race, Alford came
within a whisker of sending the longtime mayor packing as she led a Republican
route that handed the GOP control of the City Council and Board of Education.
Whether she can show similar strength against Nicastro, who
hasn’t lost a political race since his first bid in the 1980s, is uncertain.
Nicastro, 71, is in his third term representing the 79th
District, which includes Forestville, Federal Hill and southern Bristol. He
served as mayor from 1993 until he stepped down in 2003. He has also served a
handful of terms as a city councilor.
As one of the most conservative Democrats in Hartford –
where he voted against the budget, the repeal of the death penalty and last year’s
state tax hike – Nicastro has compiled a record that provides him with
considerable political insulation. Click here for full story.
Thank you, members of the 79th
for this nomination and thanks to Gary and Henri for your kind words.
Common sense, fiscal
responsibility; do not spend what you don’t have, do not borrow what you cannot
afford to pay back, live within your means, smaller, leaner government,
personal freedom and responsibility……….
These are the things we, as
Republicans, believe in and will do but to do that we have to be there, in
numbers large enough to get the job done. We aren’t right now but seat by seat,
race by race, we can be. We have made an excellent beginning with Jason and
Whit and, now, with a full slate for this cycle, we are poised to gain some
more of that ground in Hartford. Not our ground but the ground that has been
wrested from the hands of the taxpayers with the burden of taxation that has
ruined lives and businesses across this state; regulations and unfunded
mandates that squash business growth and wreck city budgets. Out of control
spending that will bankrupt CT with debt so huge that we will never be able to
pay it off.
Without meaning to, I’m sure,
Mayor Ward assisted with this acceptance speech at last night’s joint board
meeting when he said (and I’m paraphrasing a bit) “We have got to send people
to Hartford who will DO something about the unfunded mandates that are a burden
to taxpayers and return control to our cities. We have got to send different
people to Hartford.” Mr. Mayor, I agree but currently, except for Jason and
Whit, we do not get that help for Bristol.
Frank voted no on the biggest tax
increase in the history of this state. However, he neither got on board with
any of the amendments put forth by the Republicans nor did propose his own.
And – Republicans are the party of “No”?
As Bill Hamzy often said, and it
seems our Mayor would agree, “If you want your government to change, you have
to change your government”.
We are seeing the results of one
party rule and they are not good. The largest tax increase in the history of
CT; repeal of the Death Penalty (against the will of the majority of the
citizens they are supposed to be serving); mandatory paid sick time; same day
voter registration (another unfunded mandate for our cities); forced
unionization, threats included, of child care providers and personal care
assistants; education “reform” that is no reform at all (just ask a teacher)
but another unfunded “mandate” that municipalities will have to pay for without
‘help” from the state; the Jackson Labs fiasco that will add hundreds of new
jobs to the state payroll by virtue of its attachment to UCONN Health Center.
There’s a reason why Florida, as a whole, and Sarasota in particular rejected
them; the “Busway to Bankruptcy”, and, yes, I know Frank voted against it;
medical marijuana – the list is endless and disturbing.
We cannot continue to send the
same people back to our state legislature and expect a different result. The
citizens of Connecticut deserve more and better.
This year’s slate of candidates
is the change we need in Hartford and I am glad to be a part of it. With your help
and support we can continue to change the culture of “Spend and Tax” in
Hartford that Whit, Jason and others have so courageously and tirelessly fought
against for the past two years.
Let’s get them the help they need
in both the House and the Senate; put the brakes on the rampant spending and
overregulation; promote sound fiscal policies that will welcome businesses, put
our people back to work and put this state back on track to, once again, being
one of the most prosperous states in the union.
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