1:23 Democratic Connecticut Senate President Martin Looney’s proposal to increase state funding for cash-strapped cities has won the support of a bipartisan group of mayors and first selectmen. Thomas Dunn is the mayor of Wolcott and president of the Connecticut Council of Small Towns. He said it's a good idea. “Wolcott would not benefit too much from this in dollar wise. But in other avenues of watching our other towns and cities around us do better That's what’s important. That's why we are standing here together,” Dunn said. Jamye Stevenson is the Republican first selectman of Darien, a wealthy town in Fairfield County. She is a member of the Connecticut Council of Municipalities that supports Looney’s proposal to provide more state funding for poorer cities and towns. But she does not support Looney’s idea of a mansion tax to help pay for it.