Malloy in Washington today to get a picture of the land$cape

 

Governor-elect Dannel Malloy is in the field today, meeting with officials in the federal Housing and Urban Development Department and the the Department of Transportation. The Blogster realizes he would liove another $1.5 billion like the stimulus money that helped bail out the General Assembly’s current budget.

This from a news release from the Malloy folks: “This visit will help advance Governor-Elect Malloy’s number one priority — creating new jobs and keeping the ones Connecticut already has.”

Here are his prepared remarks: 

“When I ran for Governor, I promised the people of Connecticut that I wouldn’t hesitate to go to Washington — or anywhere else, for that matter — to lobby on behalf of our state for the funding and programs we might need,” he said. “Meeting with Secretary Donovan and Deputy Secretary Porcari one-on-one will allow me the chance to discuss affordable housing initiatives, urban renewal projects, mass transportation and smart-growth strategies with two leaders renown in their respective fields. All of these issues have one thing in common: jobs.  Each area has enormous potential to help us create thousands of new jobs in Connecticut..This is the first of many trips I’ll be making to Washington to work with national leaders and our federal representatives there. In the coming weeks, I hope to convene a meeting with our state’s Congressmen and Senators, and meet with Connecticut’s federal relations staff in Washington. We need to make sure the lines of communication between Washington and Connecticut are open, used often and work both ways.”