Health & Fitness
Why Destroy Small Business?
Covering local opinion, events and personalities in the Groton, Mystic, Noank area
by Ed Johnson
Once again, small business enterprises are threatened, this time by CT state politics connected with the sale of liquor on Sundays. The actual addition of Sunday itself is not the major problem, but the additional changes being proposed by Governor Malloy could result in unfair advantages to the big-box large retail chain stores. These changes involve a release of the existing fair price protections and location restrictions which threaten to put approximately 1200 CT independent package stores out of business.
Mike & Mary Edgerton, the recent new owners of the Universal Package Store in Noank advocate that we, as citizens, contact our local and state representatives, along with the Governor himself, expressing strongly our desire that these changes NOT be enacted and that small businesses in CT continue to be protected by the current regulations.
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Being open on Sunday is one thing, but changing the laws in favor of the big chain stores is not fair (and we've seen ENOUGH of that nonsense lately).
Brief contact info is as follows:
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Governor Malloy - 210 Capitol Ave. Hartford, CT 06106-1591 860 566 4840 or 800 406 1527 no E-mail
State Senator - Andrew Maynard - E-mail: maynard@senatedems.ct.gov (who is already aware of the problem)
State Representative - Elissa Wright - E-mail: Elissa.Wright@cga.ct.gov
Elissa states "It would be important for people who are concerned about this proposed legislation to contact not only the Governor and their local legislators, but also members of the General Law Committee to express their views, especially to the committee co chairs, Senator Paul Doyle and Representative Joseph "Jay" Taborsak."
Here is a link to the committee membership. http://cga.ct.gov/asp/men/MemberList.asp?comm_code=GL
Pleaae take this action and feel free to forward this info to your friends. Thank you....
