- December 19, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Bynum also heard from the Governor’s Office — though not from Gov. Kevin Stitt himself — and Attorney General John O’Connor.
“I told both of them, ‘If we have the time to revise it, then we’re going to submit it. But if we don’t, then we’re not,’” Bynum said. “It ended up we were able to make the revisions in the time that it took to submit it.
“And so we worked to revise the draft to be much more factually based and less inflammatory, and that is the brief we ended up submitting.”
The calls from the roughly half-dozen business leaders were not a factor in deciding whether or not to file the brief, Bynum said, but they were enlightening.
“Because it was a realization that there are a lot of significant employers in this region who have grave concerns about the ramifications of this decision but don’t want to get into the kind of public fight that you have seen occurring, and so they are staying under the radar, but their…
