- October 31, 2022
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Economy
A lot has changed in national politics since 2012, the year Lezlye Zupkus first flipped the 89th House District from Democrat Vickie Orsini Nardello.
Since that first victory, Zupkus, a Republican, has won her subsequent races by comfortable margins, including running unopposed in 2016. After the 2020 redistricting, the 89th now encompasses small sections of Cheshire and Waterbury along with parts of Bethany and Prospect, where both Zupkus and her Democratic challenger Kevin O’Leary have their homes.
Zupkus is aware that keeping her seat and earning votes is not a given, but thinks her record shows that she can be trusted with the responsibility. She voted on all 265 pieces of legislation presented during the 2022 Legislative Session, something only about 40% of legislators can claim. “We owe it to our constituents (to show up in Hartford),” she says, “because they depend on us to be there for them.”
O’Leary is no stranger to political…
