{"id":164,"date":"2019-02-07T18:26:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T18:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/connecticut\/press-releases\/legislators-democracy-for-connecticut-groups-urge-passage-of-pro-democracy-reforms\/"},"modified":"2019-02-07T18:26:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T18:26:36","slug":"legislators-democracy-for-connecticut-groups-urge-passage-of-pro-democracy-reforms","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/connecticut\/press\/legislators-democracy-for-connecticut-groups-urge-passage-of-pro-democracy-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislators, Democracy for Connecticut Groups Urge Passage of Pro-Democracy Reforms"},"template":"","class_list":["post-164","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"","featured_image":"","press_type":145,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7882}","{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":8440}"],"related_issues":[105,109,490,492],"related_work":false,"location":9},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"                                                   <strong>  MEDIA ADVISORY <\/strong>\r\n \r\n<strong>WHAT:<\/strong>  Press conference to identify democracy priorities for the new legislative session,\r\n       including early voting, expanding automatic voter registration, restoring voting rights to parolees, strengthening \r\n       public financing of elections, raising the minimum wage to $15\/hour, paid family leave and ending prison  \r\n       gerrymandering\r\n       \r\n<strong> \r\nWHEN: <\/strong> Friday, February 8, 11 a.m. Eastern time\r\n \r\n<strong>WHERE:<\/strong> Room 1C, Legislative Office Building, 300 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, CT \r\n \r\n<strong>WHO: <\/strong>  Senator Richard Blumenthal, State Senator Mae Flexer (D-29), Representative Gregg Haddad (D-54), Common Cause in \r\n       Connecticut, League of Women Voters CT, ACLU CT, Connecticut Citizen Action Group (CCAG), AFSCME, SEIU 32BJ, \r\n       Environment Connecticut, Connecticut Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), and Unlock the Vote\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\nCommon Cause in Connecticut is a non-profit, nonpartisan citizens\u2019 lobby, working for open, honest and accountable government for everyone.\r\n \r\n \r\n"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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