{"id":442506,"date":"2010-03-18T10:01:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T14:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.74152"},"modified":"2010-03-18T10:17:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T14:17:34","slug":"and-speaking-of-bysiewicz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/442506","title":{"rendered":"And speaking of Bysiewicz…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Q poll frontrunner said she’s had a chance to examine the legal implications of joining a lawsuit by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley to overturn the federal Defense of Marriage Act.<\/p>\n

“I have reviewed Attorney General Coakley’s lawsuit and determined that indeed I would support bringing a similar action in Connecticut when I become attorney general because I do think it’s important that same-sex couples have the same rights under federal law,” Bysiewicz said in a phone message to me yesterday.<\/p>\n

“It’s simply a matter of enforcing Connecticut law,” she added. “I would look forward to bringing a similar action.”<\/p>\n

Bysiewicz’ statement comes in response to a campaign <\/a>by a Massachusetts activist named Paul Sousa. He is pressing each of the men and women running for AG in Connecticut to join Coakley’s cause to overturn the DOMA, which prevents legally married same-sex couples from Connecticut from receiving any rights and responsibilities given to married couples under federal law.<\/p>\n

Thus far, the other Democrats in the race — Cam Staples and George Jepsen — have also expressed support. Two Republicans who have launched exploratory committees — Andrew Roraback and John Pavia — believe Connecticut should not join Coakley’s suit; Republican Martha Dean did not offer an opinion when asked about the matter last week.<\/p>\n

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The Q poll frontrunner said she’s had a chance to examine the legal implications of joining a lawsuit by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley to overturn the federal Defense of Marriage Act. “I have reviewed Attorney General Coakley’s lawsuit and determined that indeed I would support bringing a similar action in Connecticut when I become attorney general because I do think it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}