Will Gregory, in association with AmeriCares and Hip Hop Republicans, has launched a disaster relief initiative, CT4Haiti, which will raise funds and awareness in Connecticut to aid the earthquake-ravaged nation.

Gregory, a non-profit executive and Republican, has spent the past several months on a listening tour reaching out to members of the community, business leaders, and Republican town committees. “The response has been clear and overwhelming,” he said. “The residents of our district are hungry for a new kind of leadership in Washington. They are looking for someone to stand up and fight for them on the issues that matter most, and that’s exactly what I plan to do in Congress.”

I represent a dying breed of American. I am young, fiscally conservative, socially moderate, and Republican. While some jokingly call me “brave” for publicly declaring my party affiliation, it is not something of which I am ashamed. I was born at the height of the Reagan era and grew up in New Canaan with an [...]