HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) - Connecticut Republicans planned to weigh in on a proposal to use the state’s pension fund to invest in the Connecticut Sun.

A news conference was set for 11:30 a.m. on Thursday.

House and Senate Republican Leaders Vincent Candelora and Stephen Harding, among others, called it a “pension fund gamble.”

Connecticut proposed an investment plan that would give the state, and other investors associated with it, a minority stake in the Sun that would cost more than the current WNBA offer of $250 million.

That proposal, if accepted, would keep the Sun in Connecticut.

Sources familiar with the matter said that the offers for the team included the willingness to build a practice facility that would cost up to $100 million.

Those sources also said that the team would play

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