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Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont Discusses State's Future and Personal Insights at Connecticut Mirror Event

Published May 1, 2024 | Video Starts at 10:43

I think when push comes to show off and you have a race between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, Sitting on the sidelines is a way of casting a vote that may be antithetical to what you really want to do. How do you choose the things that you're going to say when you want to influence people to vote a certain way or you want to influence people on an issue? (10:43–10:50)

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“This state did not have an honestly balanced budget for 30 years.”
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“We are the fastest growing state in the Northeast.”
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“It's freed up about $800 million a year that right now I'm earning interest on or I don't have to pay the pension contributions.”
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“The data center they proposed up there at Millstone, we utilize more electricity than Bridgeport and Waterbury use combined.”
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“We had more tourists visiting Connecticut during COVID than ever before.”
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“We subsidize [Shoreline East] to the tune of about $150 per seat.”
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“40% of the tolls will be paid for by out of staters.”
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“We've had, you know, five, six balanced budgets in a row, we've been able to cut taxes.”
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“I was the former third selectman of Greenwich when I took on former candidate for vice president, United States Senator Lieberman.”
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“I thought that the invasion of Iraq was a terrible decision for our country and world peace.”
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“We have a pretty good working relationship with the legislature.”
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“We have great state employees.”
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“There was no stockpile, there were no masks [in Washington, D.C. during the early Covid pandemic].”
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“This was a state that was going backwards and people were leaving the state and movie vans were going and companies were going and we had a…”
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“I care very much about people turning out and voting here in Connecticut.”
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“I talk to the widest variety of people. I've got Republicans and Democrats and everybody in the administration.”
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“During COVID that was really tough. I had half the people say, put on a hazmat suit, stay home. Anything less than that, you're endangering…”
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“We've increased funding for our not for profits, increased funding for daycare.”
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“We're making an increasing investment every year, and C, more money is not always the answer.”
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“We've almost doubled spending for in our CSU system.”
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“We've got free workforce training.”
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“We are borrowing money to invest in housing. We're having the biggest investment in affordable and supportive housing in the history of the…”
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“All rail will be 15 minutes faster within the next 10 years.”
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“I'm paying down 2% of the unfunded pension liability this year.”
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“We have the first paid family and medical leave on a statewide basis.”
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“We have the biggest expansion of daycare in the history of the state.”
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“AI is probably the most transformative thing that's happened in my life and I've been around for a long time and I want to make sure that…”
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“I'm going to do everything I can to make sure we have the best trained people working with UConn and computer science to make sure that next…”
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“One of the things I'm going to do is put together a task force. Folks that have an idea how AI, which is artificial intelligence, can make…”
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“I wanted to do is put together a. An AI quant hub down in the New Haven.”
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“AI is going to make sure you have the best information so you can get the best personalized treatment.”
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“Washington seems to be so dysfunctional right now and the states are taking the lead.”
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“The Senate and the House are having bills right now that are doing the same thing [regulating AI].”
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“I'd like to see AI regulated not by 50 independent states, but then on a national level.”
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“The entire New England region has the highest price electricity there is.”
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“I need the federal government to step in when it comes to bringing down transmission from Quebec Hydro.”
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“Right now we have the fastest growing economy in the Northeast by a little bit.”
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“Our taxes are now very competitive with our peers.”
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“We're making thanks to the Biden administration, to be blunt, the biggest investment in transportation is going to be transformed.”
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“We're building a lot of housing. They built a lot of housing in New London.”
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“We made sure that Shoreline east tickets can also work on Amtrak.”
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“We're making significant, biggest investments in our history.”
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“Our transportation fund is fully funded. It's fully funded for, I don't know, next three, four years.”
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“When Joe Biden says we have a deal where he can speed up rail service, it's going to be a $500 million project. But Connecticut, you have to…”
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“I've added foia, Freedom of information people in every single department because we are getting lots and lots of requests.”
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“We have the strongest FOIA rules around.”
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“We're adding people to the cogs, which are the regional, you know, county like government.”
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“We've got the highest investments there we have.”
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“These are local businesses, be they restaurants, dry cleaners, ways that people can live and work in their communities.”
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“I think the state's doing relatively well.”
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“I've told you I'm going to take 15 minutes off your commute.”
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“I've told you we're expanding daycare and childcare.”
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“I've told you we're going to, you know, increase the affordable and supportive housing and workforce housing in all of our cities.”
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“These are not four year projects. These are probably 14 year projects or longer.”
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“I want to make sure taxpayers know their money is being invested in a way that is making a difference.”
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“This has always been a country that treasures its diversity and welcomes immigrants.”
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“While we're concerned about the illegal immigration, we got to be strong there.”
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