To the Editor:
I want to thank everyone who voted to support my candidacy and reelect me to the state senate. The Freedman State Senate campaign was run by a grass roots-volunteer organization with many local people joining in to assure our message was heard across seven towns.
I was gratified by the response of the many residents of the district that contributed to the campaign, either monetarily or by volunteering or both. We operated on a shoestringbut it was a mighty shoestring.
Most of you know how tenacious I am. I will pursue the issues important to you. I return to Hartford in January with an agenda developed by the constituents of the 26th District.
The first items of business are to ensure that new railroad cars are designed and ordered for the New Haven Line; that legislation addresses the issue of medical malpractice insurance, including caps on non-economic damages; and that our state budget is balanced with fiscal sanity.
The legislature needs to review the education cost-sharing formula, refine it to make it less convoluted and revisit the issue of funding special education. I am hopeful the Democrat majority will to continue working cooperatively with us as in the past.
Thank you for your overwhelming vote of confidence. I will work to justify it every day.
Judith G. Freedman
Westport
