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is now exporting both. She expects a vaccine in record time, as well.

“I think it’s important that we reopen safely but swiftly,” said Streicker, mother of four school-age children. “We need to get our kids back in school. We need to get our workplaces open, having the resources so people can safely and effectively work from home.”

That requires beefed-up technological infrastructure. “We have failing cellphone service, internet service left and right,” she said. “We have to have that investment in our infrastructure

… so as we are working to a full reopen we have the means to do what needs to be done in our daily lives.”

Streicker said job losses and closings at Raytheon Technologies, Unilever, Subway and General Electric show that current policies aren’t working. “Let’s start with getting everyone back to work,” she said. “We have to foster an environment that supports small and midsize businesses.”

She said Connecticut has the second-highest effective tax rate in the country and the thirdlowest home appreciation, along with the fifth-highest number of opioid deaths.

With Yale New Haven

Hospital and the Yale School of Medicine in the 3rd District, “We’re talking about bringing medical manufacturing back onshore. … This district is prime to be doing that but we need leaders.”

Streicker said she wouldn’t be beholden to President Donald Trump, if he were to be reelected. “I’m an independent-minded person. I always have been. … I’ve always been people over party, which is why I’m proud to be endorsed by the Independent Party,” she said.

She also has been endorsed by the Connecticut Fraternal Order of Police and the Italian American Heritage Group of Greater New Haven, which sued

the city to try to prevent the removal of the Christopher Columbus statue from Wooster Square. DeLauro and Paglino both supported the move, as did some Italian Americans and groups in Wooster Square.

She said she does support Trump in several areas. “I think his initiatives to bring our troops home has been very important and his fight to help stimulate the American economy and production … has been very important. I think stylistically we’re rather different. … I am a consensus builder.”

She said she disagrees with Trump and the Republican Party over abortion rights and “would

prefer to see Roe v. Wade stand.” But she supports Judge Amy Coney Barrett as a Supreme Court justice. “She is clearly expert in her field,” Streicker said. “I don’t believe in politicizing the Supreme Court.”

She has presented herself as someone who believes in “the principle of rule of law.”

“I certainly think that safety and security is of paramount importance to everyone,” she said. “I think defunding the police is going to cut into their training.”

Streicker criticized the rioting that followed the death of George Floyd while being restrained by a Minneapolis police officer.

“I support the First Amendment and the First Amendment does cover a lot of ground. It covers the right to protest. It cover the right to worship. At the same time, all of this is in the context of peace.”

Streicker’s financial disclosure forms estimate her net worth as more than $154 million, which would make her one of the top 10 wealthiest members of Congress if she were elected. The estimate is the midpoint in a range listed on her form. As of Oct. 14, her campaign had raised $1.39 million and spent $1.25 million.