CCAG Commends Senate President Pro Tem Donald Williams for Proceeding with Investigation

Hartford, CT – The Connecticut Citizen Action Group (CCAG) today commended Senate President Pro Tem Donald Williams for proceeding with the formation of a bipartisan committee that will investigate and possibly discipline State Senator Louis Deluca.

“We are confident that this committee will professionally get to the bottom of the events involving Senator Deluca and a reputed mobster and his offering to use his elected position to further this individuals agenda,” said Phil Sherwood, Legislative Director of the CCAG.

In a letter recently released publicly, CCAG, on behalf of their 30,000 member families, called for the Senate to convene a bipartisan committee of inquiry to investigate Senator Deluca. CCAG urged the Senate to act by forming a committee similar to the one assembled to investigate Gov. John G. Rowland. CCAG noted that the potential scope and cost of an investigation of Senator Deluca would likely be much smaller than that of Gov. Rowland, but that the committee served as a good example as to how to proceed.

“While it would be inappropriate for us or anyone else to prejudge Senator Deluca, the disclosures of events surrounding Senator Deluca are quite unsettling and we are optimistic that the bi-partisan committee will make appropriate recommendations and that the Senate will act on them,” stated Sherwood.

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