Issue Position: Melissa's Plan & Objectives

Issue Position

* Create new jobs in our community by making Connecticut a more attractive place to do business. While we're on a path to recovery, we must do more. We need to lower the cost of electricity, improve our roads, and upgrade our infrastructure to equip companies to operate across the state. Products shouldn't just be "Made in the USA". Melissa will fight to ensure that they are "Made in Connecticut."

* Make Connecticut's job training work for employers -- and workers. To build a more skilled labor force, Melissa will work to expand vocational training and apprenticeship programs. She'll use her business experience expand tax initiatives, fight for corporate structural change, and bring low-skilled-but living-wage-paying-jobs back to our state. Everyone deserves the opportunity of the dignity of employment at a sustainable wage.

* Keep women's health decisions where they belong -- with women and their doctors. A senator's vote should reflect the values of the people of our district, and Melissa will stand to defend a woman's right to make her own health care decisions and to ensure access to legal, safe contraceptive methods. In 2007, Melissa's opponent voted to deny a rape victim's right to emergency contraception at the hospital. Melissa believes that under absolutely no circumstance should a rape victim's right to access emergency contraception be based on anyone else's religious beliefs.

* Keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill and children -- Guns and mental illness don't mix. That's why we need to improve early identification, intervention, and support for those who may have mental health problems. Through Melissa's work in juvenile court, she saw first-hand the struggles parents and children in that system faced. And she knows that quality treatment is life changing. When intervention and treatment aren't enough, Melissa supports common-sense, constitutionally permissible regulation to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. As a society we can, and must, do better.

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