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Wednesday, November 06, 2002
John Rowland (R, Incumbent)
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Gov. John Rowland spent much of his first eight years as Connecticut's governor building his reputation as a skillful pitchman for the state's economy, having attracted more than 250 new businesses to the state. Rowland's pro-business fiscal conservatism largely shielded him from the challenge mounted by Democratic former state Comptroller Bill Curry, a former Clinton aide whom Rowland defeated to win his first term in Hartford in 1994. Under Rowland's stewardship, Connecticut has adopted a tough welfare reform law that limits benefits to 21 months, a new death penalty law and a law requiring communities to be notified when sex offenders are released from prison. Rowland began his political career in 1981 as a 23-year old member of the state House of Representatives from Waterbury
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