Opinion: A to-do list for the incoming Republican state chairman

Susan Bigelow is an award-winning columnist and the founder of CTLocalPolitics. She lives in Enfield with her wife and their cats.

Congratulations, JR Romano, on becoming the new chairman of the state Republican Party! The good news for you is that for the first time in a decade, that fact may no longer be such an albatross around your neck.

There’s rarely been a better time to be a Connecticut Republican in the past decade and more. Republicans here hit a high-water mark in 2002 and spent a decade steadily sinking, losing Congressional seats, legislative clout, and eventually the governorship to Democrats. But in 2014 they picked up a bunch more seats in the legislature and changed out their leadership in both the House and Senate. What’s emerged looks and feels a lot more like an actual functioning opposition party than the sad rump of a long-faded historical powerhouse.

And I have to say that I’m thrilled to see the GOP choose a younger leader. I can only hope that my generation’s pragmatism and creativity will be qualities we embrace as we begin to take power.

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