Tell Your State Senator: Override Rell's Energy Veto!

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Jodi Rell ignored you. She vetoed PA 10-97 (Senate Bill 493), our energy reform legislation. She turned a deaf ear to your thousands of calls, e-mails, faxes and letters calling for energy reform and sided with power producers, the utilities and Wall Street speculators who have driven our electricity prices to the second highest in the United States only to Hawaii.

As complex as this issue is, the battle lines are clear: on the side of consumers, there is CCAG, AARP and CONN PIRG, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and the Office of Consumer Counsel; environmental groups such as Clean Water Action, Environvent Connecticut, People's Action for Clean Energy, CT Fund for the Environment, Sierra Club CT, Audobon CT, and CT League of Conservation Voters among others; dozens of solar energy and other renewable energy source contractors such as Greenskies Renewable Energy, Solar CT and groSolar among others.

The opponents include Wall Street speculators who buy electricity and resell it to us at a much higher price represented by Goldman Sachs, the same financial corporations who have driven our country to the brink of the Second Great Depression. The retail marketers who profit by giving you discounts off of our artificially high rates are represented by companies like RBS Sempra Commodities Grop, GDF Suez Energy North America, Exelon Corporation, NE Power Producers Assoc. and Retail Energy Supply Assoc. They are middlemen between the power producers and you, producing nothing but taking your money. To override Rell's veto, we need 24 votes in the Senate; the final vote was 20-13 with 3 absent. Please make 3 calls:

  1. Call your State Senator and tell them to vote to override Rell's veto on the energy bill.

    SENATE DEMOCRATS -- 1.800.842.1420 or 860.240.8600

    VOTED FOR SB 493 (now PA 10-97) by district:

    • 1st - John Fonfara
    • 2nd - Eric Coleman
    • 3rd - Gary LeBeau
    • 4th - Mary Ann Handley
    • 5th - Jonathan Harris
    • 6th - Don DeFronzo
    • 9th - Paul Doyle
    • 10th - Toni Harp
    • 11th - Martin Looney
    • 12th - Ed Meyer
    • 13th - Tom Gaffey
    • 17th - -Joe Crisco
    • 18th - Andrew Maynard
    • 19th - Edith Prague
    • 20th - Andrea Stillman
    • 22nd - Anthony Musto
    • 23rd - Ed Gomes
    • 29th - Don Williams
    • 31st - Tom Colapietro
    • 33rd - Eileen Daily

    VOTED AGAINST SB 493

    • 15th - Joan Hartley
    • 25th - Bob Duff
    • 27th - Andrew McDonald

    ABSENT

    • 14th - Gayle Slossberg

    SENATE REPUBLICANS -- 1.800.842.1421 or 860.240.8800

    VOTED AGAINST SB 493

    • 8th - Kevin Witkos
    • 21st - Dan DeBicella
    • 24th - Michael McLachlan
    • 26th - Toni Boucher
    • 28th - John McKinney
    • 30th - Andrew Roraback
    • 32nd - Bob Kane
    • 34th - Len Fasano
    • 35th - Tony Guglielmo
    • 36th - Scott Frantz

    ABSENT

    • 7th - John Kissel
    • 16th - Sam Caliguri
  2. Call Senate President Don Williams (1.800.842.1420 or 860.240.8600) and tell him to get his caucus to override Rell's

    veto.

  3. Call Senate Majority Leader John McKinney (1.800.842.1421 or 860.240.8800) and tell him to get his caucus to override

    Rell's veto.

This is the defining issue of the 2010 legislative session -- we can lower energy prices while growing our renewable sources of energy and protect our environment. Please call today!