About CCAG

CCAG Endorses Jepsen, Merrill, Lembo for Statewide Offices

Tom Swan, Executive Director of Connecticut Citizen Action Group, announced today that CCAG has endorsed George Jepsen for Attorney General, Denise Merrill for Secretary of the State, and Kevin Lembo for State Comptroller.

About CCAG

In 1970, CCAG launched a grassroots movement that continues today. We organize door-to-door. We raise awareness. We find and train community leaders, citizen lobbyists, and future decision makers. Above all, we make sure that the important conversations happen.

Whether the issue is quality, affordable health care, better democracy, consumer protection, the environment, or ending a senseless war, citizen action is critical.

CCAG is a membership organization, and as such our funding comes primarily from the individual contributions of citizens all across Connecticut. You can become a CCAG member online at this link, and join with us and our thousands of member families in the fight for a better quality of life.

Each new member adds to our clout, which in turn helps us add to our long list of accomplishments. Your support will ensure that we can continue fighting for social justice.

Become a member today. Together we will win.

Read the Inaugural CCAG Newsletter

The year is 1971 ... the Newsletter is the first ever by CCAG ... (pdf)

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CCAG Launches 'Art Meets Activism'

New subdomain art.ccag.net, is dedicated to acknowledging Event Donors and Civic-Minded Businesses


Learn more about Art Meets Activism, a grassroots development project of the Connecticut Citizen Action Group.



Year after year, concerned citizens, local artists, civic-minded businesses, and other non-profit organizations play an essential role in CCAG’s grassroots organizing and fundraising efforts. Art Meets Activism grew out of our appreciation for all the support this community has shown us over the years.



The core of the Art Meets Activism community was formed around the CCAG Holiday Auction and those artists and others who have come together making this annual event a rousing success for over two decades.



If you are an artist or run a civic-minded business who has worked with CCAG in the past, but we have not contacted you or included you on art.ccag.net, please contact us using the join our community link.

Clean Contracting

The old political patronage was conducted by handing out jobs in government. The new political patronage involves handing out fat state contracts to political supporters through the privatization of state work. The recent Rt. 84 project and UConn dorm fiascos were all fast tracked outsourced projects that wasted taxpayer’s money. The state legislature has passed clean contracting reforms in the past that worked to ensure that any outsourcing done with taxpayer money was done in the best interest of the taxpayer but this legislation was vetoed by Governor Rell. CCAG has supported Clean Contracting standards in the past and remains committed to reigning in these wasteful practices.

Protecting Campaign Finance Reform

CCAG will fight to protect the historic campaign finance reform legislation that recently passed. For the first time in our nation, a state legislature passed a comprehensive campaign finance reform bill that levels the playing field and creates a mechanism for individuals to run for public office without being dependent on special interest money. The next state elections will be owned by the voters, not moneyed interests, and CCAG will fight to defeat any attempt, through the courts or the legislature, that aims to undermine this historic reform.

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