Rep. Mary Welander
@marywelander.bsky.social
CT State Rep, 114th HD. Mom, wife, lover of pizza. Your neighbor, your voice.
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Introducing myself here: I just entered my 3rd term in the CT legislature serving the 114th district. I’ve been appointed Democratic Leader of Regulation Review Cmte, Vice Chair of Cmte on Children, & member of Education and Select Cmte on Special Education. Also Chairing Early Childhood Caucus.
Finished signing this batch of Derby, Hamden, and Orange new voter cards…and almost done with Woodbridge.
My hand hurts 😂
Great job new voters of the 114th of taking that first step to exercise your right to vote and make your voice heard!
My hand hurts 😂
Great job new voters of the 114th of taking that first step to exercise your right to vote and make your voice heard!
April 25, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Finished signing this batch of Derby, Hamden, and Orange new voter cards…and almost done with Woodbridge.
My hand hurts 😂
Great job new voters of the 114th of taking that first step to exercise your right to vote and make your voice heard!
My hand hurts 😂
Great job new voters of the 114th of taking that first step to exercise your right to vote and make your voice heard!
Reposted by Rep. Mary Welander
The Social Security system is crashing, locking senior citizens out for long stretches nearly every day. And Trump's solution is to lay off 1000 more workers and slash the IT budget by 50%.
Start asking if the purpose is to crash our economy and society. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Start asking if the purpose is to crash our economy and society. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Social Security website keeps crashing, as DOGE demands cuts to IT staff
The worsening problems come as Elon Musk’s DOGE team pushes for more cuts at the agency, including in the department that oversees the website.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 9, 2025 at 2:31 AM
The Social Security system is crashing, locking senior citizens out for long stretches nearly every day. And Trump's solution is to lay off 1000 more workers and slash the IT budget by 50%.
Start asking if the purpose is to crash our economy and society. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Start asking if the purpose is to crash our economy and society. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Joined thousands of others at the ‘Hands Off’ protest on the New Haven Green today.
None of us will ever agree w/others 100%, but it was heartening to see so many who are committed to our country & constitution, and are willing to work for a better future for everyone.#handsoff#ctpolitics
None of us will ever agree w/others 100%, but it was heartening to see so many who are committed to our country & constitution, and are willing to work for a better future for everyone.#handsoff#ctpolitics
April 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Joined thousands of others at the ‘Hands Off’ protest on the New Haven Green today.
None of us will ever agree w/others 100%, but it was heartening to see so many who are committed to our country & constitution, and are willing to work for a better future for everyone.#handsoff#ctpolitics
None of us will ever agree w/others 100%, but it was heartening to see so many who are committed to our country & constitution, and are willing to work for a better future for everyone.#handsoff#ctpolitics
Had to change my plans for the week.
March 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Had to change my plans for the week.
There is something surreal about being in the 12th hour of an Education Committee public hearing and seeing a headline like this.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump to sign order to shut down Department of Education, White House says
U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Thursday that aims to shut down the Department of Education, fulfilling a key campaign pledge, the White House said in a fact sheet on the measure.
www.reuters.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
There is something surreal about being in the 12th hour of an Education Committee public hearing and seeing a headline like this.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
This funding also supported local farms, reduced food waste - on top of making sure people (especially kids and seniors) had access to healthy food.
The intentional cruelty of this administration is mind blowing and infuriating.
The intentional cruelty of this administration is mind blowing and infuriating.
"For an organization like ours that is interested in not just providing food, but providing healthy food, taking away programs like LFPA, it's a real killer."
#NutmegSky
www.ctpublic.org/news/2025-03...
#NutmegSky
www.ctpublic.org/news/2025-03...
CT loses millions intended for local food purchasing, as federal funding cuts continue
For food banks and people who go to them, the economic uncertainty represents a small part of the larger anxiety about ongoing moves on the federal level.
www.ctpublic.org
March 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This funding also supported local farms, reduced food waste - on top of making sure people (especially kids and seniors) had access to healthy food.
The intentional cruelty of this administration is mind blowing and infuriating.
The intentional cruelty of this administration is mind blowing and infuriating.
Sometimes it’s a sprint and others times a marathon - but movement forward is still progress. The Office of the Child Advocate is one of the most important in the state for keeping our kids safe and holding adults accountable. I will keep working to ensure OCA is in as strong a position as possible.
CT child advocate bill reworked following Lamont opposition
The bill, which wouldn’t take the power to appoint CT’s child advocate away from the governor, is a far cry from what had previously passed.
ctmirror.org
March 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Sometimes it’s a sprint and others times a marathon - but movement forward is still progress. The Office of the Child Advocate is one of the most important in the state for keeping our kids safe and holding adults accountable. I will keep working to ensure OCA is in as strong a position as possible.
Let’s be honest about the real goal here: it is not about ‘cutting waste’ or making the dept ‘more efficient’.
*The real goal is to eliminate public education entirely and privitize it.*
How? You make public education so underfunded that the public loses enough confidence in our schools…
*The real goal is to eliminate public education entirely and privitize it.*
How? You make public education so underfunded that the public loses enough confidence in our schools…
Linda McMahon didn’t need a Trump executive order to make big Education Department layoffs
The layoffs, combined with recent staff buyouts, mean that the number of Education Department staff has dropped by nearly 50% in the last two weeks. President Donald Trump has expressed a desire to cl...
www.chalkbeat.org
March 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Let’s be honest about the real goal here: it is not about ‘cutting waste’ or making the dept ‘more efficient’.
*The real goal is to eliminate public education entirely and privitize it.*
How? You make public education so underfunded that the public loses enough confidence in our schools…
*The real goal is to eliminate public education entirely and privitize it.*
How? You make public education so underfunded that the public loses enough confidence in our schools…
This will hit CT schools and CT farmers. We all lose under these actions.
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks
States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms.
www.politico.com
March 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This will hit CT schools and CT farmers. We all lose under these actions.
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Serving alongside these AMAZING women will forever be one of the proudest achievements in my life.
Thank you to all the women who supported all of to get to this point. I have to thank my Mom who led by the best example. I love you and miss you Mom.
#IWD25
Thank you to all the women who supported all of to get to this point. I have to thank my Mom who led by the best example. I love you and miss you Mom.
#IWD25
March 9, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Serving alongside these AMAZING women will forever be one of the proudest achievements in my life.
Thank you to all the women who supported all of to get to this point. I have to thank my Mom who led by the best example. I love you and miss you Mom.
#IWD25
Thank you to all the women who supported all of to get to this point. I have to thank my Mom who led by the best example. I love you and miss you Mom.
#IWD25
Just going to leave this here… 💛💙
March 1, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Just going to leave this here… 💛💙
After 12 hours of listening in-person, I finished the last handful of testifiers on my drive home. Today was the ED version of the ‘library bill’, along w/other proposals that included supporting para-educators, & creating plans to combat the shocking rise of antisemitism in our schools.
#ctpolitics
#ctpolitics
February 27, 2025 at 5:08 AM
After 12 hours of listening in-person, I finished the last handful of testifiers on my drive home. Today was the ED version of the ‘library bill’, along w/other proposals that included supporting para-educators, & creating plans to combat the shocking rise of antisemitism in our schools.
#ctpolitics
#ctpolitics
Another long public hearing for the Children’s Committee. Despite only 40 people being signed up to testify, the hearing lasted 8 hours.
We heard a lot of passionate testimony and were able to eventually drill down on constructive feedback to improve some bills. #TeamKIDS
We heard a lot of passionate testimony and were able to eventually drill down on constructive feedback to improve some bills. #TeamKIDS
February 21, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Another long public hearing for the Children’s Committee. Despite only 40 people being signed up to testify, the hearing lasted 8 hours.
We heard a lot of passionate testimony and were able to eventually drill down on constructive feedback to improve some bills. #TeamKIDS
We heard a lot of passionate testimony and were able to eventually drill down on constructive feedback to improve some bills. #TeamKIDS
9 solid hours of testimony in the Children’s Committee that ended almost exactly at midnight. Today’s hearing was one of the most bizarre conglomerations of public input I have heard so far. Proud to support our libraries, librarians, and early childcare professionals.
#TeamKIDS
#TeamKIDS
February 14, 2025 at 6:30 AM
9 solid hours of testimony in the Children’s Committee that ended almost exactly at midnight. Today’s hearing was one of the most bizarre conglomerations of public input I have heard so far. Proud to support our libraries, librarians, and early childcare professionals.
#TeamKIDS
#TeamKIDS
These woefully unqualified and dangerous cabinet choices will continue to pass.
Don’t let your members of Congress get a pass because ‘they asked tough questions’ or ‘had concerns’.
You don’t get points for *thinking* about doing the right thing.
Don’t let your members of Congress get a pass because ‘they asked tough questions’ or ‘had concerns’.
You don’t get points for *thinking* about doing the right thing.
February 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
These woefully unqualified and dangerous cabinet choices will continue to pass.
Don’t let your members of Congress get a pass because ‘they asked tough questions’ or ‘had concerns’.
You don’t get points for *thinking* about doing the right thing.
Don’t let your members of Congress get a pass because ‘they asked tough questions’ or ‘had concerns’.
You don’t get points for *thinking* about doing the right thing.
Reposted by Rep. Mary Welander
This week, I visited Amity Regional High School—a school in a Title I district. As the students showed me their projects, Trump froze federal funding for their tech & teachers pay.
I’ll fight to ensure schools like Amity get the resources they need to help students thrive.
I’ll fight to ensure schools like Amity get the resources they need to help students thrive.
January 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This week, I visited Amity Regional High School—a school in a Title I district. As the students showed me their projects, Trump froze federal funding for their tech & teachers pay.
I’ll fight to ensure schools like Amity get the resources they need to help students thrive.
I’ll fight to ensure schools like Amity get the resources they need to help students thrive.
Today was a long, infuriating day full of unnecessary and intentional cruelty from the Trump administration and Republican elected officials who allow this to go unchallenged.
January 29, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Today was a long, infuriating day full of unnecessary and intentional cruelty from the Trump administration and Republican elected officials who allow this to go unchallenged.
Following here is great, but you HAVE to pay attention to your local elections, local elected officials, and state legislatures.
We are the firewalls.
Follow, engage, support local Dems. I flipped a seat held for 22 years from red to blue because of *local* support.
We are the firewalls.
Follow, engage, support local Dems. I flipped a seat held for 22 years from red to blue because of *local* support.
We need a start pack for ACTIVE politicians on @bsky.app Anyone have one ?
This platform will be a great way for dems to speak up and make this individual videos. Someone should start something that organizes them in one spot or organize in categories of issues that need to be heard
January 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Following here is great, but you HAVE to pay attention to your local elections, local elected officials, and state legislatures.
We are the firewalls.
Follow, engage, support local Dems. I flipped a seat held for 22 years from red to blue because of *local* support.
We are the firewalls.
Follow, engage, support local Dems. I flipped a seat held for 22 years from red to blue because of *local* support.
"One day, our children and grandchildren may ask us, 'When it was all on the line, what did you do?' And the only acceptable answer is, everything we could," Richards said.
So sad to learn of the passing of Cecile Richards.
So sad to learn of the passing of Cecile Richards.
Cecile Richards, the longtime activist for women's rights and former head of Planned Parenthood, died Monday after battling brain cancer.
Former head of Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards has died
Cecile Richards, the longtime activist for women's rights and former head of Planned Parenthood, died Monday after battling brain cancer.
www.npr.org
January 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"One day, our children and grandchildren may ask us, 'When it was all on the line, what did you do?' And the only acceptable answer is, everything we could," Richards said.
So sad to learn of the passing of Cecile Richards.
So sad to learn of the passing of Cecile Richards.
Introducing myself here: I just entered my 3rd term in the CT legislature serving the 114th district. I’ve been appointed Democratic Leader of Regulation Review Cmte, Vice Chair of Cmte on Children, & member of Education and Select Cmte on Special Education. Also Chairing Early Childhood Caucus.
January 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Introducing myself here: I just entered my 3rd term in the CT legislature serving the 114th district. I’ve been appointed Democratic Leader of Regulation Review Cmte, Vice Chair of Cmte on Children, & member of Education and Select Cmte on Special Education. Also Chairing Early Childhood Caucus.