Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Getting out the vote at NBHS - The New Britain Herald (newbritainherald.com)

By James Craven
Staff Writer of the New Britain Herald
Posted by Frank Smith at 30.3.10

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

I wonder how many students gostin got
to sign up ?

March 30, 2010 at 10:55 AM
NB Voter said...

According to the Herald article:
The new voters picked their party affiliations in similar numbers existing in the city. Of the 187 students, 88 registered as Democrats, 24 as Republicans and 77 were unaffiliated.

March 30, 2010 at 3:12 PM
Anonymous said...

Look what our Mr. young and stupid goodie two shoes of a Majority leader is up to now! Now he's trying to drive the toy industry out of AMERICA.

Lawmakers may restrict cadmium in children's jewelry

BY PAUL HUGHES REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN
HARTFORD -- State lawmakers are considering restricting the use of cadmium in children's jewelry because of the heavy metal's health risks.

The Select Committee on Children and the Environment Committee have approved legislation to establish the cadmium restrictions. Other committees may need to review the bill.

The Toy Industry Association says the restrictions would be misguided. The Grocery Manufacturers Association, representing some of the world's leading food, beverage and consumer products companies, also opposes the bill.

In recent years, the legislature has enacted prohibitions and restrictions on a number of chemical products -- lead, asbestos, pesticides in schools and Bisphenol-A in children's products.

"Connecticut is on a roll with respect to restricting toxic chemicals," said Sen. Edward Meyer, D-Guilford, Senate chairman of the Environment Committee.

The proposed cadmium ban, supporters say, is a logical progression. They note that state law already bans packaging that uses cadmium.

"What do we know about cadmium? We know it is a toxic metal. We know it is a neurotoxin. We know it damages bones and kidneys. We know it is a carcinogenic, that it impacts hormonal systems, and it leads to developmental delays in our children," said Rep. Diana Urban, D-North Stonington, the House chairwoman of the Select Committee on Children.

The Toy Industry Association, however, contends the legislation is based on flawed science and the faulty premise that the mere presence of a chemical that poses certain hazards equates to a safety concern.

"It is shocking that lobbyists for the toy industry are trying to kill this bill and even claim that cadmium is safe," said Phil Sherwood, deputy director of the Connecticut Citizen Action Group.

"The evidence linking cadmium to certain cancers and reproductive disorders is very compelling," said Annamarie Beaulieu, campaign director for the Connecticut Public Health Association.

The state Department of Consumer Protection issued a product alert shortly after supporters of the cadmium ban concluded a news conference two weeks ago.

The department's announcement said the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is warning of the high level of cadmium contained in children's metal charm bracelets. The bracelets were sold with winter and Christmas-themed charms including a snowman, Christmas tree, candy cane and snowflake

Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell Jr. advised people to immediately take these charm bracelets away from children and dispose of the jewelry.

March 30, 2010 at 3:39 PM
Anonymous said...

I wonder how many black students chose to register with the party that spent 200 years fighting to keep blacks oppressed and using every trick in the book to block passage of federal legislation that would have guaranteed blacks equal rights to whites: The Democratic Party.

It still amazes me how many people are willing to affiliate with their former oppressors, when they owe their equal rights to Republicans and nobody else.

March 30, 2010 at 3:47 PM
Anonymous said...

The Democrats continue to hail JFK as a hero, when he, as a senator, voted against giving blacks equal rights as late as 1958!

It was Republicans who finally passed the Equal Rights Act against rabid opposition from Democrats, which is why Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican!

March 30, 2010 at 4:37 PM
Anonymous said...

It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one pundit so succinctly stated, the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party of the four S's: Slavery, Secession, Segregation and now Socialism.

It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize blacks. The Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every civil rights law beginning with the civil rights laws of the 1860's, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the 1950's and 1960's.

During the civil rights era of the 1960's, Dr. King was fighting the Democrats who stood in the school house doors, turned skin-burning fire hoses on blacks and let loose vicious dogs. It was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who pushed to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and sent troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools. President Eisenhower also appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision ending school segregation. Much is made of Democrat President Harry Truman's issuing an Executive Order in 1948 to desegregate the military. Not mentioned is the fact that it was President Eisenhower who actually took action to effectively end segregation in the military.

Democrat President John F. Kennedy is lauded as a proponent of civil rights. However, Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act while he was a senator, as did Democrat Senator Al Gore, Sr. And after he became president, John F. Kennedy was opposed to the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King that was organized by A. Phillip Randolph who was a black Republican. President Kennedy, through his brother Attorney General Robert Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI on suspicion of being a Communist in order to undermine Dr. King.

March 30, 2010 at 7:31 PM
Anonymous said...

This is why the main stream media reports the OPPOSITE and why the education elite continues to rewrite history.

March 31, 2010 at 8:51 AM
Anonymous said...

Most students are probably not even aware that it was mostly Democrats who were slave owners, and Republicans who fought for over 100 years to free them from slavery and guarantee them equal rights, and that all along the way, Democrats used stunts similar to the trickery they are employing now to oppose passage of equal rights for minorities. It was the Republicans who were always the party of the people against repressive Democrats. Why else would Martin Luther King, his father, and his grandfather all have been Republicans?

Left wing extremists who are running our schools will not teach these children the truth about how repressive the Democrats historically were to blacks: owning slaves, passing Jim Crow laws etc.

It was all George Bush's fault anyway!

March 31, 2010 at 2:08 PM
Anonymous said...

NB Voter said...
According to the Herald article:
The new voters picked their party affiliations in similar numbers existing in the city. Of the 187 students, 88 registered as Democrats, 24 as Republicans and 77 were unaffiliated.
March 30, 2010 3:12 PM

The numbers don't add up..88 Democrats, 24 Republicans, 77 unaffiliated equals 189. Not that it really matters, the Democrats and unaffiliated were way ahead of the Republicans.

March 31, 2010 at 2:36 PM

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