Kevin Lembo (D)
CT State Comptroller
Democrat Working Families
CT State Comptroller. Across a lifetime in public service – as an AIDS activist, a health care advocate and now as Connecticut’s State Comptroller, Kevin Lembo has earned a reputation as someone who takes on the system to make it work for people.
One of my top priorities as state comptroller is to make Connecticut the most open and
transparent state in the nation. Connecticut’s financial information was once scattered and
hidden across agencies, but is now immediately accessible and searchable through an online
portal that I launched called OpenConnecticut. Due to that project, Connecticut is now ranked
among the top five states in the nation for its efforts to make government information more
open. This is great news, but by no means a finish line. We must always find new and better
ways to bring people closer to government, which is why I successfully fought for a
commitment from all of the state’s quasi-public agencies to provide checkbook-level financial
information to my office on a regular schedule to be posted on OpenConnecticut. And, in
addition to state checkbook-level data, payroll, budget and revenue data, I am currently
working on additional expansions to
transparent state in the nation. Connecticut’s financial information was once scattered and
hidden across agencies, but is now immediately accessible and searchable through an online
portal that I launched called OpenConnecticut. Due to that project, Connecticut is now ranked
among the top five states in the nation for its efforts to make government information more
open. This is great news, but by no means a finish line. We must always find new and better
ways to bring people closer to government, which is why I successfully fought for a
commitment from all of the state’s quasi-public agencies to provide checkbook-level financial
information to my office on a regular schedule to be posted on OpenConnecticut. And, in
addition to state checkbook-level data, payroll, budget and revenue data, I am currently
working on additional expansions to