Key Facts about the Convention

Key Facts about the Convention

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• The question on the ballot will read:  “Shall there be a Constitutional Convention to amend or revise the Constitution of the State?”  It doesn’t say anything about who goes to the convention or what will be proposed. 

• State legislators appoint the delegates to the convention.  Average citizens have no say in who goes.  The politicians in Hartford will appoint lobbyists, special interests and party operatives – not regular citizens and taxpayers.

• Convention delegates can propose anything, without limits.  Voters have no say in what is proposed at the convention.  They will do what’s in their best interest,not the public interest.

• The group pushing for the convention is a political organization dedicated to banning marriage for gay people and outlawing abortion.  They will use the convention to take away people’s rights.

• In other states, big businesses like health insurance companies and tobacco companies have used this process to get special tax breaks, overturn environmental laws and take away workers’ rights and benefits.

• The state constitution has been amended 30 times since 1970 – without holding a convention.  We can make changes to the constitution without holding a taxpayer-funded convention. 

• Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and other experts on the state constitution have come out against the convention.