Toni Boucher - State Senator

State Senator

In the 2008 election, Boucher won the senatorial 26th district seat following her six terms in Connecticut House of Representatives.

Currently in the State Senate, Senator Boucher serves as an Deputy Minority Leader. Senator Boucher is the Senate Ranking Member of the General Assembly’s Transportation Committee, Education Committee and of its Higher Education Committee. She also serves as a member of the General Assembly’s Finance, Revenue & Bonding Committee where she is ranking member of the Finance sub committee for Transportation. Boucher has been an outspoken critic of marijuana law reform. She serves as a director for Human Services Council, an organization that is financially supported by Purdue Pharma. Purdue is the manufacturer of Oxycontin, a drug that one investigation in Boston found was a "gateway" drug for heroin that addicts turned to as a cheaper alternative.

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