Bomb Threat Targets Harding's Brookfield Home: Report

BROOKFIELD, CT — Senate Minority Leader Stephen Harding and his family are safe following a bomb threat made to his home in Brookfield, the lawmaker said in an email distributed late Wednesday evening.

The exact time of the threat was not released.

Harding expressed his gratitude to law enforcement for their " professionalism and dedication,"noting their "action and attention to this matter has been extremely reassuring in a difficult time."

“With that said, this is a distraction. All families in CT deserve to feel safe,” he said. “My CT Senate Republican Caucus and I will never stop focusing on the issues that matter to Connecticut’s working families. Affordability. Safety. Accountability. Transparency," Harding said.

State Attorney General William Tong, who himself was the target of a bomb threat last week, issued a statement Thursday calling for an end to the threats.

"Sen. Harding is a longtime friend and colleague, and he is a very good man," Tong said in the statement. "I am grateful that he and his family are safe. I thank law enforcement for their professionalism in responding to and investigating this threat. Violence and threats of violence are unacceptable. And it is never, ever acceptable to threaten someone’s family. There is no place for this in Connecticut and it has to stop."