About Us has been updated September 2024.

The Barkhamsted Republican Town Committee in the state of Connecticut meets on the third Monday of each month at 7PM unless otherwise noted in advance. Monthly meetings returned to The Town Hall in April of 2024. It is located at 67 Ripley Hill Rd.

(They are no longer being held in the Town Garage meeting room at 33 New Hartford Rd. The garage is located on Rte. 44 unless notified in advance for extra space such as in the instance of a caucus where more people attend.)

Officers:

Chair:  Juliana H. Simone is the editor and web administrator for the Barkhamsted Republican Town Committee site and owner/author/web administrator of her own blog “In My Vue”.

The Chairman of the Barkhamsted Republican Town Committee serving her seventh term, was the host and producer of a half-hour cable political interview show, “Conservative Chat” from December 2005 through the end of 2019 when Charter Communications closed their studio in Winsted, CT. (Some videos of later shows can be seen on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnLslzPjefCnCqqxCq2_yHw )

As a campaign worker, she was a Senior Advisor for Peter Lumaj for U.S. Senate 2022, Communications Director for Lumaj For CT 2018, a Republican conservative candidate for Governor, Grassroots Outreach and Media Director for Peter Lumaj for Secretary of the State 2014, and Field Director for Mark Greenberg for Congress (CT-5) 2010.

Simone has also worked for the Connecticut Senate and House Republicans caucuses as committee appointees/deputy clerks and was a State House candidate in 2006 endorsed by then-sitting veteran Congresswoman Nancy Johnson (CT-5) and the Republican American newspaper. She formerly reported and wrote political commentary for an online news site from April 2010 – October 2015, where she covered Connecticut politics and reported nationally from the Southern Republican Leadership Conference and CPAC.

Vice Chair:  Dave Moulton, was the Barkhamsted RTC and Board of Finance Chair for five terms. Moulton preceded Simone in his tenure as the RTC Chair. He still serves on the BOF and is a strong advocate for cutting spending and reducing taxes.  Dave has a long held career as an engineer and currently works at Pratt & Whitney.

Treasurer:  Reverend Steven Blackburn, Ph.D was the library director at Hartford Seminary, where he taught as a Faculty Associate in Semitic Scriptures.  In addition to courses in the Qur’an, he also taught Major Themes of the Bible and the Qur’an, Elementary Arabic, Information Literacy for Islamic Studies, and Introduction to Christianity and Islam.  He has lived in Barkhamsted since 1983, when he was called as Pastor of the Barkhamsted Center Church (Congregational). Recently retired from the Hartford Seminary, he now serves as the Pastor for the Colebrook Congregational Church.

His first political campaign he volunteered for in 1970, helped elect James L. Buckley, Conservative Party nominee for the United States Senate from New York.  His most recent campaign was serving as Treasurer for Peter Lumaj, Republican candidate for Secretary of the State 2014.

Secretary:  Michael Stewart is a retired businessman who now owns and operates “Simply Jam” a growing jam company whose products can be found in many local farms and grocery chains in a variety of mild,  moderate and hot pepper based flavors.

State Central Committee representatives for Senate District 8 representing State Senator Lisa Seminara:

Avon RTC member Brian Werstler

Avon RTC member Proloy Das

Voter Registrar:  Steven Blackburn (R)

Town Clerk:  Holly Krouse (R)

Contact us: barkhamstedrtc@gmail.com