Klarides Retreats. Will Attend Lamont’s Toll Summit.

House Minority Leader Themis Klarides (R-Derby) will attend Governor Ned Lamont’s tolls summit with legislative leaders today. This is an about-face for Klarides. She and House Republican caucus members sent a strongly worded letter to Lamont to let the Greenwich Democrat know they need no more time to study tolls. They are against them.

Lamont continues to undermine his proposal with his meandering musings on its scope. Today’s meeting—which is not open to the public—provides another opportunity for the governor to clarify the plan he says he is staking the success of his administration on.

Here’s Klarides’ May 21st letter to Lamont: