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Courting support from a voting bloc 300,000 strong, the two Democrats running for governor are wooing their party's women with a bouquet of campaign promises that tackle equal pay, child support and domestic violence. Mayors John DeStefano Jr. of New Haven and Dannel P. Malloy of Stamford have made women's issues a central focus of their campaign platforms, calling for programs responding to domestic violence, equal pay laws and statewide universal pre- kindergarten.
Today, DeStefano will campaign at a day care in Hartford to pitch reforming the state's child support system.See the full content of this document
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Dem Hopefuls Eye Women's Vote
The candidates have a good reason for speaking to the issues important to women: about 292,500 registered Democrats in Connecticut are women, compared to about 20...
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