Join us at FIC Action Lobby Day on April 13th!

We are holding a second Lobby Day at the Legislative Office Building (Room 1B) at the state Capitol on Monday, April 13th.  April 13th is a very important day because if the Judiciary Committee does not vote on the Assisted Suicide bill by April 13th, it will “die in committee.” Killing the Assisted Suicide bill by April 13th is our highest goal and we need your help to make it happen. Please plan to attend our Lobby Day and continue to contact the members of the Judiciary Committee and your own legislators by using our Action Center.

At the same time that FIC Action is fighting this outrageous bill, we are also supporting legitimate end of life care legislation, pro-life laws requiring minors to notify their parents before obtaining an abortion, and we are monitoring potential attacks on homeschooling and pregnancy resource centers.

We need your help on these other bills (more on them soon) and to stop the awful Assisted Suicide Bill (on the Assisted Suicide Bill, see the revised link at the bottom of this message.)

On Monday, April 13th at 10:00 a.m. the Family Institute of Connecticut Action will hold a Pro-Family Lobby Day at the Legislative Office Building (Room 1B) in Hartford. We need as many pro-family state residents as possible to attend our lobby day and then meet with their own legislators afterwards to ask them to vote to protect life, faith and family.

We will start in a hearing room in the Legislative Office Building where we will receive packets of pro-family information and listen to speakers. From there we will go to meet with our individual legislators to ask them to vote pro-family. Don’t worry if you have never “lobbied” before! We will have materials available to help you.

Inside of Legislative Office Building

Inside of Legislative Office Building

The most effective approach to lobbying for faith and family is to bring as many people as possible to Hartford on a weekday to meet directly with their state representative and state senator. We know it is a sacrifice to take a day off from work and we appreciate what so many of you are willing to do to help protect society’s most vulnerable citizens. But our opposition regularly appears at the state Capitol with well-heeled lobbyists. Having legislators see with their own eyes that the pro-family side enjoys greater public support is the only way to reverse the anti-family stranglehold over our state Capitol.

And FIC Action will be there on April 13th to help guide you. Following our 10 a.m. meeting in room 1B, our volunteers will help direct you to where you need to go to meet with your own state representative and state senator. We will also provide brief talking points on why pro-family bills should be supported and anti-family bills should be opposed.

In fact, there is information we can provide to you right now to help you get a jumpstart on making your April 13th lobbying day as effective as possible . . . 

– Call your state representative and state senator and make an appointment to meet with them. House Democrats can be reached at 800-842-8267 and House Republicans can be reached at 800-842-1423. Senate Democrats can be reached at 800-842-1420 and Senate Republicans can be reached at 860-240-8800.

– Tell them that you are their constituent and you would like them to be at the state Capitol on April 13th to meet with you. Set a time. Do not settle for meeting with a legislative aide–tell the aide that you want just 5 minutes of your legislator’s time.

– If when you arrive for your appointment your legislator is in session, give a note to a “runner” from his office to inform him or her that you have arrived. Most legislators will take time out of the session to meet with their constituents.

– If your legislator(s) are not available on April 13th, pick another day to meet with him or her. We need as many people as possible to attend our April 13th Lobby Day. But the most important thing is that you have face-to-face time with your legislators to ask them to vote pro-family.

Protecting faith and family in 2015 depends on you. Please forward this message to every pro-family state voter you know and encourage them to join the fight. Tell your churches to come to FIC Action’s April 13th Lobby Day and help us fight for the family!

We hope to see as many of you as possible at the Legislative Office Building at 10:00 a.m. on April 13th. Thank you and God bless you for all that you do to fight for faith, family and freedom.

We need your support to hold rallies, lobby days, press conferences and other pro-family public education events! Click here to help FIC Action convince legislators to vote pro-family!

Please get the word out to your churches, friends, and family!

Directions to the State Capitol and Legislative Office Building

(The Legislative Office Building is located at 300 Capitol Avenue, Hartford.)

Traveling on I-84 East – Take Exit 48, Capitol Avenue, get into the right lane of the exit ramp. At the end of the exit ramp turn right onto Capitol Avenue. Take the first right past the Legislative Office Building, proceed to the back of the garage and take a right to enter the garage using the left hand lane.

Traveling on I-84 West – Take Exit 48, towards Asylum Street, go straight onto Spring Street. Turn right onto Asylum Avenue, stay straight onto Farmington Avenue. Turn left at the YWCA (will be diagonally to your left in front of you) onto Broad Street, proceed through two stop lights, immediately after the Armory building take the first left into the driveway and then another left at the end of the driveway. Follow this road around the garage to the back and take a right to enter the garage using the left hand lane.

Traveling on I-91 North or South – Take Exit 29A, Capitol Ave., stay over to the far left. You will come to  Pulaski Circle, travel halfway around and take a right onto Elm St. Go to the end of Elm St., you are now facing the  Capitol Building. Take a left onto Trinity St. At the first traffic light take a right onto Capitol Ave. Go past the Capitol building and the I-84 entrance ramp, all on your right. Take the first right past the Legislative Office Building, proceed to the back of the garage and take a right to enter the garage using the left hand lane.

Parking Instructions – Parking is limited. Allow yourself extra time to park.

  • Limited public parking is available on level one and basement level of the Legislative Office Building.
  • Across the street from the Legislative Office Building, and across Capitol Ave. is Hungerford Street. There is street parking in this entire neighborhood, free of charge.
  • On Oak Street (diagonally across to the left from the Legislative Office Building) off of Capitol Ave., there is a public parking garage in the CT Education Association Building (CEA building – across from CT Supreme Court Library). This garage costs money, but will save you the time and aggravation of having to park.

We need your support to hold rallies, lobby days, press conferences and other pro-family public education events! Click here to help FIC Action convince legislators to vote pro-family!  Please click the link below to ask your state senator and state representative to vote against the Assisted Suicide Bill. Thank you!

 Click the link below to log in and send your message:

http://www.ctfamily.org/take-action/action-center/?vvsrc=%2fCampaigns%2f30344%2fRespond%3fvvcgUT%3dpmchzEcRRUF5-2l_jblMIw%26vvcgRD%3dAM8Kc5iKJb%26vvsbr%3dc2biOZtVA2Jp_SX0vP7u4w

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Elaine Kolb of Second Thoughts CT spoke to opponents of assisted suicide so they could better inform their legislators about the perspective of a person with disabilities.

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A full room at our Lobby Day on March 24. Join us on April 13th!