Groundwork| Road To Legislature with Rebecca Hyland Guest Rep. Mary Mushinsky 85th

Who, What, When, Why because when you are here the Where is always Wallingford.

Chapters

• 0:34 Welcome Representative Mushinsky
• 1:03 Door Knocking Leads to Legislation
• 2:46 Workforce Training Pilot Program | Platform to Employment
• 4:04 I like to fix things
• 5:05 What makes you decide to run for office?
• 6:00 Where did you meet your husband?
• 7:57 What are some of the responsibilities of a State Representative?
• 8:40 1/10 Bills...
• 9:30 What does it take to get a bill to pass?
• 11:01 How many people do you have helping you?
• 11:13 The Usefulness of Interns
• 13:10 Wallingford Unemployment Crisis
• 14:10 Public Relief Fund
• 14:22 How do you ensure that relief funds are being used correctly?
• 15:17 Unemployment Organizing
• 15:56 How do you go about negotiating bills?
• 16:20 Gridlocked Congress
• 17:52 Compromising Legislation
• 18:13 Volatile Revenues
• 19:30 Time forces compromise
• 20:50 What's required of a state representative?
• 21:18 Are there any bills in your mind that stand out as successful?
• 21:53 Collapse of landfill disposal systems
• 22:23 Mandatory Recycling
• 23:11 Waste spill clean up
• 23:25 Where the trash goes now...
• 24:50 Can we still use the landfills?
• 25:16 What can be done
• 26:00 If left unsolved this problem can get worse...
• 26:50 How do you spend time with new state reps?
• 27:04 Balancing act of the state rep.
• 28:00 Final thoughts from Mary
• 29:29 End of program