Speaker James Amann, D-Milford, said “The Governor has shown no interest in working with Democrats to create a fair, progressive tax system, but I really thought she was serious about a gas tax summer holiday - apparently I was wrong.”
“The Governor is playing a game of bait and switch with the citizens of Connecticut and has been unmasked as not sharing our belief that people need relief. The time has come for the Governor to finally come to the table and seriously negotiate a budget with the Legislature. Time is short and we both have a responsibility to the citizens of this state to get the job done.”
Senate President Donald Williams, D-Brooklyn, said, “The governor has chosen to say ‘no’ to tax relief for millions of taxpayers in Connecticut and instead has sided with the very small percentage of the state’s wealthiest residents.”
Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney, D-New Haven, said, “Clearly the governor is more interested in protecting the small percentage of the wealthiest residents than she is in cutting the gas tax for the summer. In the end, the middle class, working families and the driving public lose with this veto by the governor.”
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On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
The amended complaint states that plaintiffs sought to remedy the continued discriminatory and unauthorized enforcement of federal immigration laws against the Latino residents of the City of Danbury by Danbury's mayor and its police department.
Plaintiffs allege that the arrests violated their Fourth Amendment rights and the Connecticut Constitution because defendants conducted the arrests without valid warrants, in the absence of exigent circumstances, and without probable cause to believe that plaintiffs were engaged in unlawful activity. In addition, plaintiffs allege that defendants improperly stopped, detained, investigated, searched and arrested plaintiffs. Plaintiffs also allege that defendants violated their Fourteenth Amendment rights when they intentionally targeted plaintiffs, and arrested and detained them on the basis of their race, ethnicity and perceived national origin. Plaintiffs raise First Amendment, Due Process and tort claims.
Plaintiffs request declaratory relief, damages and attorneys fees.
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On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
