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Previously we offered Brooklawn Strategies LLC the opportunity to explain their methodology and experience in polling. They took us up on it. On July 13th and 14th Brooklawn Strategies conducted a poll of likely Republican primary voters in the 2nd Congressional District for the Peckinpaugh for Congress campaign.  Calls were placed by Western Wats...
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Press Release from the Dubitsky2010 Campaign: Chaplin, CT- Doug Dubitsky, Republican candidate for Congress in Connecticut’s 2nd district, responds to false allegations that he is a “liberal tree-hugger.” The Dubitsky campaign has learned that a small but vocal group supporting one of Mr. Dubitsky’s opponents is about to launch a media attack on Mr....
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With a looming state budget deficit of historic proportions, a majority of legislative Democrats on the budget-writing Appropriations Committee voted in favor of a budget adjustment adding $700 million in taxes for 2011 Fiscal Year – on top of the $1.5 billion in new taxes enacted only seven months ago and a projections of...
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From The Hartford Courant ….who responded with a hostile diatribe this week to Gov. M. Jodi Rell‘s request for more concessions. It was unworthy of the representatives of working people. The tone of their letter was insulting and unacceptable and won’t win the unions any friends. The state budget for the current fiscal year...
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The Board of Finance met on 3/16 in the school media room (library), to review the budget as presented by the Board of Selectmen. you can review the same package by downloading the budget off the town website, front page in the upper center. Most of the night was spent in line by line...
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State Sen. Mary Ann Handley, D-Manchester, announced Friday she will not run for another term, leaving the Fourth State Senate district open to a potential Republican pickup in 2010. Handley, 73, who was one of most pro-public sector union legislators at the Capitol, sited a desire to enjoy more time in her community. Handley...
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The aim is to give a new as yet unnamed U.N. body the power to directly intervene in the financial, economic, tax and environmental affairs of all the nations that sign the Copenhagen treaty. The reason for the power grab is clear enough: Clause after complicated clause of the draft treaty requires developed countries...
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The Chinese News media is rather fasinated with the Tiger Woods crash and possible extra affairs of the billionaire golfer. Lacking real video, they simulated the accident.
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Just months after the new budget was passed. You may remember Connecticut was one of the last to pass a state budget. Unlike the Federal Government, the state government does not have a Federal Reserve nor currency printing presses and can not by law run a deficit. At least you have to pretend you...
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Pope Manufacturing Company is a manufacturing company started by Albert Augustus Pope in Hartford, CT. The company began with the introduction of the “Columbia High Wheeler” bicycle in 1878. Pope bought Pierre Lallement’s original patent for the bicycle, and aggressively bought all other bicycle patents he could find, amassing a fortune by restricting the...
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Staffers on Capitol Hill were calling it the Louisiana Purchase. On the eve of Saturday’s showdown in the Senate over health-care reform, Democratic leaders still hadn’t secured the support of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of the 60 votes needed to keep the legislation alive. The wavering lawmaker was offered a sweetener: at least...
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U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd continues to get beaten by all three Republican candidates in the latest Quinnipiac Poll released Thursday. Dodd’s trustworthiness with the voters is also in the red zone, with a 52 percent thumbs down a little under a year before the 2010 Election. Only nine percent said they don’t know if...
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The 39 who voted “no”: (Nope, no CT Reps on the list). Here’s a list of the 39 House Democrats who voted against the health care legislation, all 1930 pages and 1.2 TRILLION $ of it. Maybe because they didn’t get to read it? Did our guys get to read it? That would be...
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From Ken Hjulstrom via email: Regarding the Charter Revision issue, it will be interesting to see who Bill Black decides to appoint. The last time we had a Charter Revision Commission (CRC) back in 2002 the First Selectman largely ignored the people put forth by the Republican Town Committee and instead stacked the committee...
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Via email: Dear Mr. Clarke, Knowing your interest in health care reform, I wanted to keep you up to date on recent developments and to know that I am listening to your views. During the months of August and September, I hosted or participated in dozens of health care discussions. Now that a new...
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