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Ned Lamont: “I am a little squishy with these earmarks coming out of the…”

Featuring: Ned Lamont, Democratic | Governor of Connecticut

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Gov. Lamont talks big issues facing Connecticut | Face More Facts with Mike and Mike

Published | Video Starts at 27:22

Blue Hills, that's the one you're talking about. I think it's a pretty good program. They've been giving them money for after school programs going back 20 years. I am a little squishy with these earmarks coming out of the legislature as well, and I like things to go through a normal hearing process. So I think that that's a fair point. But I think the other 99.9 we get right and those that we don't, we hold people accountable. (27:22–27:31)

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Asserts a preference for legislative earmarks to go through a normal hearing process.

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