speaker, senator fasano, representative claridas, members of the general assembly and the judicial branch, lieutenant governor, honored guests and people of the great state of connecticut. , thank you for welcoming me to the room where it happens. i'm especially proud to be here with my family, annie, emily, lindsay, teddy. sometimes it gets pretty feisty at the lamont dinner table. we're all in it together and we're not shy and at the end of the day i feel the same way about the people of the great state of connecticut. and you're my extended family and we're all in it together. i want to say to dan malloy, many thanks to your decades of public service and to nancy wyman, you're not going far, we're going to keep you pretty busy and where's george jetson? i thought you were down here somewhere. yeah. [ applause ] george, you're just across the street from me now, you can run but you can't hide. we are just getting started. a few weeks ago, as you heard, susan and i joined a couple thousand high school students at the bushnell for a performance of "hamilton." before the current went up, w