Capitol Dispatch Weekend Digest

Former New Britain Mayor Erin Stewart ran up thousands of dollars in clothing and jewelry charges on her taxpayer-funded credit card over nine years, according to the Crumbie Law Group report.

Republican John Rowland was elected to the state legislature at 23 and won a seat in Congress in 1984; he became governor in 1994 at 37, widely considered a rising star in national Republican politics

Republican Erin Stewart wrote to New Britain officials requesting a partial pension she calculated at 35% of her salary, a benefit that does not exist in the city’s charter, according to the CT Mirror.

Connecticut Republican Party treasurer Gary Schaffrick was convicted on charges of risk of injury to a minor after being arrested in 2016 for allegedly bathing naked with a young boy