Barefoot Accountant's Interview of Susan Bysiewicz on August 5, 2011: How to Create Jobs in America

by: barefootaccountant

Wed Aug 17, 2011 at 12:09:13 PM EDT

Susan Bysiewicz is running in the Democratic primary for Senator of Connecticut. William Brighenti, "the Barefoot Accountant", requested the opportunity to interview Susan Bysiewicz and Chris Murphy, the two leaders in the Democratic primary race for United States Senator of Connecticut; however, only Susan Bysiewicz has made herself available for an interview.

Susan Bysiewicz served as Connecticut's Secretary of State for twelve years and as the Connecticut State Representative from the 100th District for six years. She graduated from Yale University and Duke University School of Law prior to practicing Law in New York City and Hartford, Connecticut.

The interview will be broken out into eight parts and will deal primarily with the pocketbook issues facing working and middle class famililies in Connecticut and across the United States.

Susan Bysiewicz would be the first woman Senator from the State of Connecticut. Her mother, Shirley, was the first tenured female law professor at the University of Connecticut as well as a colleague of Connecticut's first female governor Ella Grasso.

The first portion of the interview (Part I) deals with the question on how Susan Bysiewicz, if elected as the United States Senator of Connecticut, would address unemployment and create jobs in Connecticut and throughout the United States.

A transcript of the interview is available at http://www.cpa-connecticut.com/blog/?p=4108 for all those interested.

"...the key to job creation in Connecticut and all across our country has been this: that small businesses have created the lion share of the new jobs...My passion as Secretary of State for twelve years and my passion as someone who would like to serve in the United States Senate is to look for ways to support small businesses, to reduce some of the challenges that they face, because in the end, the lion’s share of the jobs have come from small businesses. And Washington just hasn’t gotten the job done with respect to small businesses."

Susan Bysiewicz, from interview on August 5, 2011, http://www.cpa-connecticut.com/blog/?p=4108 

William Brighenti is a Certified Public Accountant in Berlin, Connecticut. He has published numerous articles on accounting, taxation, auditing, QuickBooks, and construction accounting, many of which are available at http://www.cpa-connecticut.com. Bill also writes a blog as the Barefoot Accountant at http://www.cpa-connecticut.com/blog/, featuring the macroeconomic issues of taxation, budgeting, and finances in American politics.