Child care an allowable campaign expense? 'Pereira' bill advances Julia Bergman FacebookTwitterEmail Candidate for Fairfield state representative Caitlin Clarkson Pereira comforts her daughter, Parker, 3, in her Fairfield home after Parker skinned her knee while going door to door in Fairfield, Conn. on Wednesday, August 22, 2018. Clarkson Pereira was denied her request to the State Elections Enforcement Commission to use her campaign funds to pay for child care.Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut Media Caitlin Clarkson Pereira, a former candidate from Fairfield for the state House of Representatives, drew national attention when, in 2019, she filed a lawsuit to make child care an allowable expense in Connecticut’s publicly financed campaigns.