Editor’s Note: All candidates for Governor, Secretary of the State, Attorney General, U.S. Senate, 2nd Congressional District, State Senate and State House Districts for Haddam and Killingworth were invited to send a brief statement and a photo to HK-Now.com. These are being posted online as they arrive.
Posted on October 1, 2022:
Cynthia Jennings is a civil rights attorney, an environmental attorney, and served on the Hartford City Council for six years. She graduated from UConn Law School in 1998. One of Jennings’ most recent environmental initiatives was the February 8, 2016 passing of a resolution by the Hartford City Council to oppose the building of a gas pipeline through the reservoir where Hartford residents and eight other towns obtain their drinking water. Under Jennings’ leadership, and the support of more than 29 environmental groups throughout Connecticut, this gas pipeline was stopped.
Jennings is recognized as bringing the issue of environmental justice to national attention, through her opposition, clean-up and closure of a polluting landfill located in North Hartford.
Jennings was featured in the November 2018 issue of Hartford Magazine for her groundbreaking work on the clean-up and closure of the Hartford Landfill, in an article that covered the Hartford Landfill ten years after closure and clean-up, an initiative that she is known to have spearheaded and carried through to completion.
Jennings has served as a trained observer for the Connecticut Secretary of the State to monitor elections in urban centers throughout Connecticut. She conducted voter exit interviews and wrote up complaint affidavits for voters, and she also interviewed voters who believed that their voting rights had been abridged. Jennings operated and responded at the Voter Suppression Hot Line, and has worked to protect voter rights in Connecticut.
Jennings is a powerful, fearless, experienced leader whose history has insured that she is the most qualified candidate to serve as Secretary of the State. Jennings has been recognized by numerous organizations throughout Connecticut, and on August 23, 2022, she won the nomination of the Connecticut Independent Party for the position of Secretary of the State.
Jennings is known for her civil rights and environmental work. She supports clean air, clean water and clean elections!
