Dear Friend: Just a few short months ago I was honored and humbled to have been elected to represent the people of the 32nd Senate District. Our campaign platform was simple, strong, and came from many of the people I met in the campaign-reducing spending and lowering taxes, protecting our families with tough criminal justice reforms (including a bona-fide "three strikes and you're out law") and making Connecticut a more business-friendly state in order to create and keep jobs. Now, five months after you sent me to the Senate, I am running for re- election to my first full term. Why? Because despite the small victories we've had, the majority party running the Legislature is tone deaf to the common-sense agenda that you sent me to fight for. Despite many Connecticut families and businesses struggling with high gas prices, the majority Democrats refuse to even have a debate on a "Gas Tax Holiday" for the summer months. And despite many families in fear of losing their jobs in this shaky economy, the majority Democrats continue to propose (and sometimes pass) legislation that drives small businesses-and the jobs we create-out of Connecticut. The ideas and advice that so many of you have given me over breakfast at a coffee shop, or in the grocery store or when Marcy and I pick up our kids at daycare, are worth fighting for, and I humbly ask for your vote once again this November. Sincerely, Rob Kane