Faith leaders lobby against legalizing marijuana sales in CT
News 12 Staff
Updated on:May 03, 2021, 7:36pm EDT
Religious leaders headed to the state Capitol Monday to warn lawmakers about legalizing marijuana sales in Connecticut.
This year, Connecticut could finally green light marijuana sales. Gov. Ned Lamont says it s time. This has been a long time coming. We ve been talking about this for ages, he says.
Faith leaders say the lure of easy money and easy jobs are empty promises. This is just a terrible idea for the state of Connecticut, says Pastor Abraham Hernandez, of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.
Faith leaders lobby against legalizing marijuana sales in CT
News 12 Staff
Updated on:May 03, 2021, 7:36pm EDT
Religious leaders headed to the state Capitol Monday to warn lawmakers about legalizing marijuana sales in Connecticut.
This year, Connecticut could finally green light marijuana sales. Gov. Ned Lamont says it s time. This has been a long time coming. We ve been talking about this for ages, he says.
Faith leaders say the lure of easy money and easy jobs are empty promises. This is just a terrible idea for the state of Connecticut, says Pastor Abraham Hernandez, of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.
Don t get it twisted, go get a vaccine as soon as possible, said Crystal R. Emery, CEO of URU The Right To Be, Inc. This partnership with the fire department and city is a great opportunity to create pipelines of information to the public.
Emery established the nonprofit 26 years ago with a goal of spreading accurate facts to the public to create a more equitable society. The organization s latest venture is to help cut down on vaccine hesitancy. It is vitally important that we educate folks about getting this vaccine and being a part of the recourse of changing the dynamic of what s happening in our community, said Pastor Darrell Brooks, of Beulah Heights First Pentecostal Church.
Published December 18. 2020 9:14PM | Updated December 18. 2020 9:15PM
Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, The Connecticut Mirror
Clergy from Connecticut’s three largest cities reminded Gov. Ned Lamont this week that he needs their support to win reelection, and they challenged him to earn it by tackling the “racist and classist” way the state funds the struggling, segregated schools in their neighborhoods.
If not the first public overture to the governor by a Democratic constituency group about the 2022 campaign, the clergy’s 40-minute online talk with the governor on Tuesday was the bluntest. They kicked off the talk with some political math: The 55,000 votes cast for Lamont from their communities exceeded his 44,000-vote margin of victory.
Clergy to Lamont: Earn our support by tackling school segregation
Cloe Poisson :: CTMirror.org
Rev. Trevor Beauford, pastor of Union Baptist Church, holds up a Bible during a rally in front of Hartford City Hall this summer. Union Baptist is a member of Faith Acts for Education.
Clergy from Connecticut’s three largest cities reminded Gov. Ned Lamont this week that he needs their support to win re-election, and they challenged him to earn it by tackling the “racist and classist” way the state funds the struggling, segregated schools in their neighborhoods.
If not the first public overture to the governor by a Democratic constituency group about the 2022 campaign, the clergy’s 40-minute online talk with the governor on Tuesday was the bluntest. They kicked off the talk with some political math: The 55,000 votes cast for Lamont from their communities exceeded his 44,000-vote margin of victory.