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Dear ,

What a month it's been!

Our West Hartford Board of Education (BOE) representatives, Dr. Gayle Harris and Ethan Goldman have done an amazing job concerning the push to have Chief Richard Velky of the Schaghticoke Tribe speak before the BOE.  The work of Scott Zweig and our RTC member, Tony Landino who have been working hard on this issue, getting signatures to fight the school name changes, have been nothing short of a miraculous effort.  In a very short time, they have gathered more than half the signatures we need (about 1,500 signatures, so far).  Chief Velky was spectacular speaking before the BOE providing key reasons why the BOE made a mistake in voting to change the school names in the first place.  We can only hope this resonated.  Our next step will be to request that the BOE seek to reverse it's decision from February.  Meanwhile, Scott and Tony continue to work on finding more tribes in Connecticut to support this issue as well as searching for other ways to enhance these efforts.

The fight continues on the K-3 gender identity SEL curriculum.  Each BOE meeting sees more and more parents and citizens come forward with the courage to speak out against this curriculum.  In addition, we have a committee that has developed a great strategy to move forward in putting pressure on the BOE to make appropriate changes that are right for our young students.

Our Town Council representatives have been busy and continues to evaluate the Town's budget while working hard to move the anti-crime resolution out of the Town's Public Safety Committee and into real action by the town.

Yesterday, you received an invitation to our annual Lincoln/Reagan Dinner.  If you share our values and you want to help move our agenda forward, please purchase a ticket to this event immediately.  Our guest speaker is none other than the recently nominated Republican candidate for Governor, Bob Stefanowski.  We will also have other candidates for state and federal office speaking as well so, this will be a tremendous event to attend.  Please see the buttons below to see the detailed invitation and purchase a ticket to the event.

In that spirit, we invite you to attend our West Hartford Republican Town Committee meeting for May.  The meeting will be held this Monday, May 16, at 7pm ET in Room #400.  You can click on the buttons below to see the latest agenda for our meeting and our meeting minutes from our April meeting.

Some highlights in our agenda...

We'll provide more information on next steps for the school name changes (come by if you want to sign the petition) and the SEL gender identity curriculum.  We'll talk about the upcoming Lincoln/Reagan Dinner as well.

We'll also hear from Anastasia Yopp and Tim Newton both from Newington.  Anastasia and Tim are both looking to be the Republican nominated candidate for the 20th District, State House representative.  Beth Kyle will also speak about her candidacy for the West Hartford Republican Registrar of Voters.

You'll also hear about the State GOP convention that happened this past weekend.  What a great time it was!

If you plan to attend, please click on the button below to let our Secretary know that you plan to attend our meeting.  It's important that you RSVP as we like to have a head count because we bring in dessert and beverages for our attendees to our meeting.

If you have any questions or if you need additional information, please feel free to email me at chair@whgop.org or call our WeHa RTC office at 860-840-7430.

Sincerely,

Shawn Daly