New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. has floated the idea – via The New Haven Independent – to allow undocumented aliens the right to vote. Reporters this morning bounced the idea off Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who would be asked to sign such a law if it somehow got through the General Assembly.
“It’s not an idea that I’m particularly comfortable with,” Malloy said in the Capitol. “I think there are obligations that run with citizenship and there are privileges that run with citizenship. It’s not something that I’m inclined to support. On the other hand I am certainly more than willing to hear the mayor out on it.”