About 100 students, union members and members of CCAG rallied at CRRA headquarters on April 3, 2002. They then marched to the capitol to demand campaign finance reform.
From the Hartford Courant, April 4:
From the Manchester Journal-Inquirer, April 4:
Over 80 students from across Connecticut converged on a fundraiser by Governor Rowland where he expected to raise an estimated $300,000 on January 31, 2002. Rowland termed this selling of democracy "Campaign Roundup II" so we had some fun with the western theme.
Television news coverage of the protest against Governor Rowland on WTNH 8
Stephanie Wilson, Director of the Fannie Lou Hamer Project spoke to nearly 100 students at Wesleyan University on December 4, 2001.
On October 21, 1994, Governor Rowland came out in favor of public financing of campaign. He later vetoed a reform bill that passed and then failed to support it the next year in the legislature. Why? He apparently has trouble with the idea that tax dollars would be used for "public funding." Perhaps we can give him a leave from the governorship so he can go back to Government 101.
Hear Rowland support public financing.
Hear the radio ad urging Rowland to support the reform bill.