FIC Blog

Last week we told you that confirmation votes like Judge Lubbie Harper’s “are usually rubber-stamp affairs” and that “even a higher-than-normal ‘no’ vote on Harper’s confirmation” would send a message. That is what FIC Action just accomplished today. As expected, Judge Harper was confirmed by the legislature. But a careful observer can gauge the progress […]

“This is our victory; a joint victory!” — Len Suzio to FIC Action Committee, Election Night, 2011 “This is the big one,” was how we described Len Suzio’s race to you on Election Eve. While our other two endorsed candidates lost their special elections, last night we won the big one! Len Suzio is the […]

Family Institute of Connecticut Action Committee was formed to support pro-family candidates for state office. We have endorsed three candidates in tomorrow’s (Tuesday, February 22nd) special elections to fill seats vacated by anti-family legislators who either went to work for Governor Malloy or were arrested. If we have a home or business address for you, […]

Neither FIC, nor FIC Action, nor FIC Action Committee had anything to do with an alleged push-poll which supposedly targeted Len Suzio’s opponent in the 13th Senate District’s Feb. 22nd special election. FIC Action Committee endorsed Suzio, a longtime  pro-life activist, in an email on January 18th and promoted his candidacy again in emails on […]

The rumor today is that Andrew McDonald, co-chairman of the Judiciary Committee and long-time foe of FIC, will be named to a position in Governor-elect Dan Malloy’s administration. We have no lack of disagreements with Sen. McDonald. But we want to take this occasion to say publicly to Sen. McDonald something he is not used […]

Although Republican candidates for federal and statewide office suffered major defeats in Connecticut’s 2010 election, pro-family candidates made gains in legislative elections. State Senate Candidates endorsed by FIC Action Committee won 8 out of 16 or 50% of their contests. Our endorsed candidates for State Representative won 25 out of 43 or 58% of their […]

FIC Action Committee’s endorsements were emailed to our members on October 1st and have been on our homepage for the last month. We have added a few additions since then and we invite you to check this post frequently–we may update it to add more candidates. Many factors went into our endorsements, including candidate questionnaires, voting record, viability, […]

(Below is the email sent out today by FIC Action Committee.) [Update: FIC Action Committee has just made a new (8/7) endorsement: Mark Boughton for Lt. Governor.] FIC Action Committee’s 2010 Primary Endorsements “This race could give the FIC the opportunity to gain strength and influence in state policy and administration. We cannot allow that to […]

It’s famine to feast at FIC Action Committee when years ago an endorsement by a socially conservative, grassroots organization in Connecticut would have garnered little, if no attention – to now, where the mere mention or NOT of an endorsement on our blog is mewed, analyzed, closely watched and reported by Connecticut’s biggest and loudest political […]

Elect a politician who is a fiscal-conservative-but-not-a-social-conservative and you will soon find that she is not even a fiscal conservative.