Rell favors constitutional convention
The controversial statewide effort to hold the state’s first Constitutional Convention since 1965 got a boost on Friday when Gov. M. Jodi Rell said she favors the November-ballot issue.
She said it would be a good way to create a new initiative-and-referendum law to allow voters to use the ballot box to change government and force votes on new laws, as is done in states like California.
The anti-abortion Family Institute of Connecticut Action said Friday that Rell’s endorsement is good news in the weeks before Connecticut voters see the ballot question on Nov. 4.