Today’s results are down from a negative 43 - 47 percent approval rating in a March 11 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University.
“Only 36 percent of voters are satisfied with the way things are going in the state, one of the lowest scores since Quinnipiac University started asking this question in 1997”, Quinnipiac University Poll Director Douglas Schwartz said in a news release posted on the university’s web site.
Legislators, who face re-election next year, were rated lower than the governor: Only 27 percent said they approved the way the General Assembly was handling its job, with 57 percent disapproving.
This is the lowest score for any governor in the nine states surveyed this year by the Quinnipiac.
Emily Wang, School of Medicine professor and co-founder of Transitions Clinic Network, was awarded $258,113 to focus on the health care needs of those reentering the community from prison.
In the same poll, 75 percent of Connecticut voters described the state’s economy as “not so good” or “poor”. Another 41 percent say it is getting worse and 48 percent say it is the same. But this comes as the governor is facing unrest over the state’s finances among legislators in his own party, as well as blistering criticism by Republicans.
In an early look at Connecticut’s 2016 U.S. Senate race, Democratic incumbent Sen.
The poll showed Blumenthal with 2-1 leads over businessman and former Olympic shot putter August Wolf and economist and CNBC senior contributor Larry Kudlow.
Sixty-two percent of Connecticut voters approve of how Blumenthal is handling his job as Senator, while only 31 percent disapprove. (The USA has the highest incarceration rate in the industrialized world, and by a few accounts the world, period.) But Blumenthal said the federal Second Chance Act, under which the new grants were given, is in danger of not being renewed because of opposition by “right-wing Republicans”.
Malloy noted that the state began actively pursuing alternatives to locking up non-violent people for long prison sentences in 2011, with the decriminalization of marijuana. Live interviewers call land lines and cell phones.
