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Kim Healy is Ideal Candidate to Represent Wilton in Hartford
To the Editor:
Wouldn’t it be great if there was someone who was level-headed, compassionate, and intelligent, with a demonstrated passion for Wilton, who wanted to be our representative in Hartford (for our 42nd house district)? How about having someone knowledgeable about our town government (as a current member of the Board of Selectmen) who could use this experience to better support Wilton at the state level? Wouldn’t it be great to have somebody more at ease identifying herself as a Wiltonian rather than as a member of a political party, someone who has garnered the endorsement of the Independent Party, serving as our representative?
The great news is that Kim Healy is all of these things. She’s also a mother of four, dedicated to improving both the environment (she served on the Conservation Commission) and our quality of life, and a staunch advocate for improving educational outcomes in both towns like Wilton as well as those with lower achievement levels today. Kim would be a great champion for our town, pushing to keep and expand local decision-making, knowing that local autonomy helped create the Wilton we have today, the place all of us have chosen to call home. I hope everyone reading this will join me in voting for Kim Healy!
Jake Lubel
[Does] Kim Healy want and encourage this big development built and owned boom happening in our small town? Would she fight for keeping small town small town!?
Will she help our small town stay Wilton and not turn into Norwalk? Keeping massive developer owned residential buildings out of our towns and keeping our school districts to Wilton residents only?
Its pretty obvious and has been so for years that the party and people in power in Connecticut want to force 8-30g developments on Wilton and towns like it. If you want the conversation about development to be had in Wilton, vote for Kim Healy (and Kami Evans for state senator). If you would rather a bunch development forced upon the town without input, keeping voting for the other people. Kami’s opponent is our current state senator, someone who has voted in favor of legislation that pushes state control of housing.