A screen grab from the Twitter account of Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley taken Aug. 27, 2014.
Heeding calls to flesh out his alternative vision for Connecticut, Republican Tom Foley unveiled a nine-page action plan Wednesday just hours before the first gubernatorial debate of his rematch with Democratic incumbent Dannel P. Malloy.
Foley is calling for a half-percent cut to the state’s 6.35 percent sales tax and a business entity tax exemption for companies with fewer than 50 employees as part of his blueprint, which his campaign is billing as A Plan for Restoring Pride and Prosperity in Connecticut.
You can read Foley’s plan here:
Restoring Pride And Prosperity in Connecticut
Foley wants to create a “Knowledge Corridor” from Enfield to New Haven and said he would focus his recruitment efforts as governor on healthcare services, highly engineered manufacturing, financial services, medical devices, alternative energy research and development and manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology.
On the education front, Foley is proposing to create an A to F grading system for public schools, which would be require to give third graders a mandatory reading test to enter fourth grade and high school seniors a regents-style exam to be able to graduate.