By State Rep. Tina Courpas

Representing the 149th District has been the privilege of a lifetime. Thank you to the citizens of the district for electing me to represent you in Hartford.

The legislative session in Hartford ended on June 4. The work of the legislature is to work on substantive policy issues, and I will continue this work unabated. One thing I saw firsthand in Hartford in the 2025 session, however which I did not expect is how profoundly the structure and processes of our CT legislature affect our policy outcomes. We have sound structures and processes in CT, but party imbalance (the supermajority) in CT severely undermines those structures and processes, and our state democracy.

A supermajority breeds lack of respect for tenets as fundamental as Constitutional questions.

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