FILE - Former Connecticut state Senate Minority Leader Sen. Louis DeLuca, R-Woodbury, comments on his decision to retire from the Connecticut state Senate at the end of the month, during an interview Friday, Nov. 16, 2007, in his office at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford, Conn. DeLuca, a former Republican leader of the Connecticut state Senate who served 17 years in the General Assembly before reluctantly resigning, died Friday, July 28, 2023, at age 89. (AP Photo/Bob Child, File)