{news} Come hear Green 2nd Congressional District candidate Scott Deshefy on Nov. 13th!!

Thu Nov 1 17:30:55 EDT 2007

Greens,

  Come hear a NEW candidate for the 2nd District on Tuesday,November 13at 7 pm in the Senior Center on Spring street in Downtown Rockville (Vernon area).

  The meeting is free and open to all and part of the Tolland County and Manchester area Greens.For more information call Tim McKee at 860-643-2282

  BIO of   G. SCOTT DESHEFY, CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE, 2ND DISTRICT, CONNECTICUT

        For nearly thirty years, Scott Deshefy has been active throughout the state as an advocate for ecological ethics, nonviolence, economic justice and reverence for all life. As an individual and state official, he has fought against suppression of information and made powerful corporations accountable for pollution and violations of state and federal environmental law.
        A lifelong resident of eastern Connecticut and native son of Uncasville, Deshefy graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1974 with a Bachelor of Science degree majoring in biology and minoring in literature. Also conducting graduate studies in biological sciences at the University of Montana, UCONN and Southern CT State University, Deshefy completed his MS in zoology at Clemson University in 1978 and four years of doctoral work with an emphasis in behavioral-ecology. Under a Clemson graduate teaching assistantship and as part-time lecturer at Middlesex Community College (Middletown, CT), Scott Deshefy has taught general biology, vertebrate zoology, human anatomy and physiology, environmental science, astronomy and geology. He was nominee for a Dansforth Fellowship in 1982.
        During breaks in collegiate studies, Scott has worked at the U.S. Submarine Base in Groton and for the Dow Chemical Corporation, Allyn’s Point, Gales Ferry. He worked at General Dynamics Electric Boat (Groton, CT) from 1973-75 as a shipfitter and radiation control monitor, receiving high security clearances for his work on nuclear submarines as part of RADCON. From 1982 through his recent retirement in 2007, Deshefy served the State of Connecticut as a supervisory environmental analyst in the Department of Environmental Protection. In that capacity, he developed and supervised enforcement and environmental clean-up programs involving underground storage of petroleum and other hazardous chemicals as well as the monitoring and regulation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other toxic substances, including asbestos. Deshefy served as scientific support coordinator during environmental emergencies, including chemical releases to Long Island Sound and estuarine
 environments.
          Scott has drafted environmental regulations and general statutes, worked closely with the CT Office of Attorneys General on dozens of environmental civil cases (including Connecticut’s first type A ecological damage assessment claims) and worked with the CT State’s Attorneys on some major criminal cases. He has gained national reputation with EPA for innovative, no-nonsense approaches to environmental enforcement, even when handicapped by limited allocation of state resources. He has prepared dozens of federal grant requests to support the state programs he has supervised and, over twenty-five years, never failed to meet the program goals for which those EPA grants were approved. During his tenure as head of the Underground Storage Tank (UST) Enforcement program, Deshefy’s stringent enforcement of UST regulations helped influence the removal of over 27,000 leaking and antiquated gasoline, heating fuel and chemical USTs, thereby preventing incalculable harm to the
 groundwaters of the State of Connecticut.
        From 1982-1987, Deshefy served on the Montville Board of Education, including chairman from 1985-87. While chairman, starting teacher salaries were raised as an incentive to improve both the quality and frequency of individuals pursuing teaching degrees and to make starting teacher salaries in eastern Connecticut a truly living wage. Scott received the Briarwood College environmental educator award in 2002 and, as a state official, was named by Governor Lowell Weicker as Connecticut’s natural resources trustee for environmental damage assessment claims pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (R.C.R.A.). Deshefy has written and edited three books of poetry. He has been a poetry award recipient from the Hartford Advocate, a nominee for CT poet laureate, and he has published articles in various scientific journals, including Animal Behaviour. In October 2005, Scott was awarded the medallion of the Eastern Connecticut Chamber of Commerce in recognition of
 his role in helping prepare DEP’s environmental impact statement, instrumental in deferring the BRAC Commission’s closure of the U.S. Submarine Base (Groton).
         Scott and his wife, Nancy, have been married for 31 years and take great pride in their fourteen year old daughter, Alea. 
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  Tim McKee
  Manchester CT
  Home-860-643-2282
  Cell-860-778-1304
  Tim McKee, is a National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT.
  BLOG- http://timmckee2008.blogspot.com/

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