Audrey goes to Windsor Locks

With over sixty town committees visited by the Blondin Campaign, Audrey headed to the town of Windsor Locks. Of Course, Audrey was warmly welcomed and greeted by her old friend the townchair who she worked with on the Governor O'neil race. She talked about the usual, her disappointment with Campaign Finance not being passed in the General Assembly and how she thought it was crazy that she has to spend 3 hours each day raising money for her campaign. She believes that races shouldn't be about how much money you can raise, but the issues. Audrey has always been a big supporter of a uniform code of ethics and carries around the Litchfield code of ethics with when she travels. While not for a state mandated code, she would use the power of the Secretary of the States office to help towns develope codes or even help setup regional codes of ethics throughout the state. Audrey has expressed her disappointment with the ethics laws not passing in the General Assembly at several events. She went on to talk about the voting machine and how she had just gone to the state capital the other day for a conference, hosted by the league of women voters and our current SOTS Susan Bysewitz. The forum was meant to inform the voters on the current state of the soon to come Electronic Voting Machines . With the passage of SB55 in the last days of the Assembly, the state has choosen to strenghten the accuracy, integerity and security of the vote by adding a paper trail. Audrey spoke to the group about voter partcipation next and how she and her husband Matt Blondin go down to Sand del sor, Nicarguia working with the group they started Vosh Connecticut. They bring old glasses down to the residents and do over 2400 eye exams, this will be thier 8th trip. Audrey always speaks about how there is no food, little small shacks for houses for most of the people and very little hope in the way of government assistance and how lucky we are to live in America. She spoke to the mayor of the town and said "oh I was on the board of Selectmen in Litchfield for ten years, how do you run your town meetings down here". He said " well there not open to the public, there is no public record of what goes on and oh by the way there is no media, because my mom runs the newspaper. Audrey told the group, I always tell my childern to be greatful for what you got.
The group asked questions about same day registration, which she is for and agreed with the town registar who was present that we need to give the town registar's in the state better technology and more training with all the changes coming from the Capital.