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Sam Nestor
The information provided below comes from public records, including Town of Weston meeting recordings, agendas, minutes, and budget documents, as well as published news reports and Nestor campaign materials.
Weston’s First Selectwoman
Sam Nestor is a Democrat who has led Weston as First Selectwoman since late 2021. Now she wants to be your State Senator.
Her mailers promise “free speech,” “fair elections” and “the experience to put [those values] into action.
Ask the Weston residents who were told, ‘Please stop.
Sam Nestor’s Record
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Sam Nestor wants No Independent Oversight - Silencing Residents Voices
Gave Herself a Pay Raise Without Finance Board Approval (30 Second Ad)
Moved Money without Finance Board Approval
Sam Nestor Unauthorized Pay Raise (Full Version)
The information provided here comes from public records, including Town of Weston meeting recordings, agendas, minutes, and budget documents, as well as published news reports and Nestor campaign materials.
Her mailers promise “free speech,” “fair elections” and “the experience to put [those values] into action.”
But in her own town, residents describe a very different leader.
Changing the rules to favor one party
In September 2025, Nestor’s Board of Selectmen launched a rewrite of Weston’s town charter and directed the commission to look at Weston’s limit on how many seats one party can hold. Under the proposal, one party could hold 5 of 7 seats on town boards instead of 4. Residents packed Town Hall on June 3 to object. “This town will just be a one-party town,” warned one resident, a self-described proud Democrat. Another put it bluntly: “You cannot chant ‘No kings’ and then build a throne.”
Not listening to residents
For years, Weston residents had no standing public comment period at Board of Selectmen meetings. When a fellow selectwoman asked again and again in 2026 to add one, Nestor wouldn’t even second the motion. When a resident pressed for “a public accounting” of salary increases at the June 3 hearing, she was told, “Please stop.” “Nothing seems to change when residents speak up,” one longtime resident said. “Why?”
Taking power away from taxpayers
The same charter proposals would end residents’ right to make motions to cut spending at Weston’s annual town budget meeting. They would also let the selectmen shift up to $50,000 within departments without Board of Finance approval, and create a new $100,000 contingency fund. “I think it invites corruption,” one resident told the board. Another said: “We also have no control, no checks and balances, no ethics, no oversight.”
Questions about pay, ethics and spending
Residents said salary increases Nestor received were never reviewed by the Board of Selectmen, as the town charter requires. They also pointed out that Weston’s Board of Ethics still had not been fully reconstituted. This year, the Board of Finance cut about $1.4 million from the budget Nestor’s board submitted. Weston taxpayers still face a 2.8% tax rate increase.
The question for voters
Sam Nestor says she’ll stand up for your voice in Hartford. Weston residents have already seen how she treats theirs.