Joe Crisco, Veteran Democratic State Senator, Joins Republicans in Anti-Tax Pledge

The Blogster just noticed that state Sen. Joe Crisco, D-Woodbridge, is the only Democrat in a cavalcade of Republicans who recently “pledged” to “never” raise their constituents’ taxes.

Here’s the full news release from Washington: 

AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORM 

ATR Releases 2010 list of Pledge Signers in Connecticut

Federal and state candidates join incumbents in making no-new taxes promise in upcoming election 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) released an updated list of incumbents and challengers in Connecticut who have signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge  . These candidates have made a written commitment to their constituents to never raise their taxes. ATR strongly encourages taxpayers to consider those who have made this commitment. The list of incumbents and challengers who have signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge is as follows
Federal

Challengers

CT-Sen Linda McMahon (R)

CT-01 Ann Brickley (R)

CT-04 Dan Debicella (R)

CT-05 Sam Caligiuri (R)

 State

 Incumbents

Joe Crisco (S-17)

John A. Kissel (S-7)

Anthony J. D’Amelio (H-71)

Fred Camillo (H-151)

Vincent Candelora (H-86)

Marilyn Giuliano (H-23)

William A. Hamzy (H-78)

DebraLee Hovey (H-112)

Lawrence G. Miller (H-122)

Selim Noujaim (H-74)

T.R. Rowe (H-123)

Sean Williams (H-68)

 Challengers

Joe Markley (S-16)

Michael McLachlan (S-24)

David R. Pia (S-22)

Jason Welch (S-31)

Helen Bergenty (H-22)

Katheryn Brown (H-89)

Christopher Davis (H-57)

Rusty Haigh (H-81)

DebraLee Hovey (H-112)

Malvi Lennon (H-61)

Andrew R. Lockwood (H-39)

Lawrence G. Miller (H-122)

Paul Nogueira (H-75)

Timothy H. Plungis (H-41)

Mary E. Porter (H-104)

Earle Roberts (H-34)

Joanne Romano (H-137)

Robert C. Sampson (H-80)

Jonathan Searles (H-10)

Bill Simanski (H-62)

Prasad Srinivasan (H-31)

 *List does not denote incumbents who are not running for reelection, who are termed out, or do not have an election this year.

Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) is a non-partisan coalition of taxpayers and taxpayer groups who oppose all tax increases.

For more information or to arrange an interview please contact John Kartch at (202) 785-0266 or by email at jkartch@atr.org.