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MUM PARADE BRISTOL CT - City Councilor Ken Cockayne said that traipsing along with the U.S. Senate contender, Linda McMahon, was like walking with a superstar.
He said that Bristol residents -- who tend to be blue-collar and Democratic -- showed real support for the former wrestling executive as she hoofed it for a few hours Sunday during the City of Bristol's Annual Mum Parade.
Whit Betts, the GOP candidate for the 78th District State House seat, said that after watching McMahon at the parade he thinks she has "a legitimate shot at being able to carry Bristol" on Election Day.
For twelve months, Linda McMahon’s campaign has been squeaky clean. Linda has criss crossed the state of Connecticut, meeting face to face with people who want answers to tough questions and they like her clear, concise and knowledgeable answers.
It is not the millions of dollars she has spent on campaigning, it is the positive, proven ideas she presents that has the people flocking to Linda - when we voters go to sleep - we count all the charms about Linda - the U.S. Senator from the State of CT.
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, the Democratic hopeful, has been steadily sinking in the polls, unable so far to combat McMahon's rising poll numbers and how to find the key to secure support from voters who once backed him routinely.
What a contrast between the Hartford Courant photo of Peter Tercyak being arrested by the Hartford police with a defeated look on his face, and the Bristol Press photo of smiling Linda McMahon proudly marching along in Bristol's Annual Mum Street Parade, with a multitude of potential voters waving THEIR supportive signs to vote for her!!
What a way to go!
Frank, you're a genious.
Watching the Blumenthal campaign ads and speeches, it sounds as if he is still running like a crusader attorney general that took out the New Britain Waldmart, He has yet to make a clear case of why he would be a senator to represent Connecticut or why his opponent would not.
McMahon, by contrast, has stayed right on message — cut taxes, shrink government, reduce the debt, repeal the health care bill and send a business person, not a career politician like Blumenthal to Washington. It is a simplistic platform that resonates with many frustrated Connecticut voters.
Linda has my vote, in fact I have yet to find anyone who says they are voting for Blumenidiot. I guess he is just like Obama with everyone running from him due to his radical extremism.
Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown will campaign for Connecticut GOP gubernatorial contender Tom Foley at an October 9, 2010 rally in Glastonbury CT, Hearst Connecticut Newspapers has learned. Scott Brown defied the odds with his upset of Democratic Attorney General Martha Coakley in January’s 2010 Massachusetts special election to fill the senate seat of the late Senate lion Ted Kennedy.
We are voting for Mr. Foley. The absolute worst thing for Connecticut would be to have one political party control the House, Sentate and Governorship. There would be no balance of power and the Democrats would run rampant in their out of control spending, liberal causes and union protections.
We are voting for Mr. Foley. The absolute worst thing for Connecticut would be to have one political party control the House, Sentate and Governorship. There would be no balance of power and the Democrats would run rampant in their out of control spending, liberal causes and union protections.
The McMahon campaign should run the parade photo alongside the Tercyak photo in one of their campaign mailings to show the obvious contrast between her and the Dumbocraps.
The McMahon campaign stated that reporters are wrong to suggest McMahon favors lowering the minimum wage. From a spokesman: "I think a good deal of creative interpretation is needed for anybody to take away from these quotes that she is in favor of reducing the minimum wage.
She is clearly saying that we ought to "review" whether this is in fact the time to raise the rate. It's impossible to accept the spin that a handful of reporters are putting on this without changing the definition of the word 'review.'
That word "review" is not one and the same with 'cut'. Noah Webster, I'm certain, is turning over in his grave today."
The choice couldn't be clearer!
Less taxes, less government intervention in your lives and more jobs with McMahon.
or
More socialism, more welfare, more government regulation and government control of all of our lives with Blumenthal.
As former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich put it, the choice is between the Democrats who are the party of unemployment checks, or the Republicans who are the party of pay checks.
Which would you prefer???
Tell me that it isn't so!
Based with today's New Britain Herald Peter Spano, Secretary to the New Britain Town Committee, was out supporting the Republican Linda yesterday.
To:Tell me that it isn't so!
Peter spano serves on the New Britain Democratic Town Committee!
Sounds like Peter knows where to turn for true leadership.
Way to go Peter!
New Britain resident Peter Spano had a conversation with Linda McMahon where she stated to Spano that there are more than 500,000 people out of work in the state of Connecticut. We need to bring manufacturing back replied Spano who remembers the days when kids right out of high school were guaranteed jobs at the NB factories their parents worked at ... in the hardware city.
New Britain used to be the hardware capital of the country Spano said while ticking off the many factories that were once booming industries in New Britain. McMahon agreed and assured him that if the tax cuts are extended it will create more jobs.
Is Peter Spano finally going to switch to becoming a Republican? I hope so!!
Tell me that it isn't so!
Based with today's New Britain Herald Peter Spano, Secretary to the New Britain Town Committee, was out supporting the Republican Linda yesterday.
PETER IS ON THE DEMOCRATIC TOWN COMMITTEE AND APPARENTLY IS SUPPOTING LINDA INSTEAD OF BLUMENTHAL!
The WWII Navy veteran Peter Spano conservation with Linda McMahon at the NB/Berlin Rotary Club, about the old New Britain manufacturing Hardware City's past history relates to a recent McMahon's gaffe: her apparent disregard -maybe even disdain - for history of the 30's and 40's.
When McMahon's campaign convened a press conference in East Hartford CT to announce her endorsement by National Federation of Independent Business, a reporter ask her if she would have supported the Fair Labor Standards Act - McMahon offered a response: "Are you talking about from yesterday?" "No," the reporter said replied, "1938."
There's a reason why that reporter was asking about 1938: It's part of the bedrock of ethical employment law in the United States. It brought us the minimum wage (25 cents in 1938!) and the near-40-hour work week; it also made most child labor illegal.
While World WarII took the country out of the Great Depression and minimum wage of 25 cents a hour, what sort of legislation is required to haul us out of the current Recession?
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The WWII Navy veteran Peter Spano conservation with Linda McMahon at the NB/Berlin Rotary Club, about the old New Britain manufacturing Hardware City's past history relates to a recent McMahon's gaffe: her apparent disregard -maybe even disdain - for history of the 30's and 40's.
When McMahon's campaign convened a press conference in East Hartford CT to announce her endorsement by National Federation of Independent Business, a reporter ask her if she would have supported the Fair Labor Standards Act - McMahon offered a response: "Are you talking about from yesterday?" "No," the reporter said replied, "1938."
There's a reason why that reporter was asking about 1938: It's part of the bedrock of ethical employment law in the United States. It brought us the minimum wage (25 cents in 1938!) and the near-40-hour work week; it also made most child labor illegal.
While World WarII took the country out of the Great Depression and minimum wage of 25 cents a hour, what sort of legislation is required to haul us out of the current Recession?
October 1, 2010 6:27 PM
IT APPEARS THAT THE ABOVE WAS WRITTEN BY A HIGHLY PLACED MEMBER OF THE NEW BRITAIN DEMOCRATIC TOWN COMMITTEE HIDING BEHIND HIS ANONYMOUS SIGNATURE.
How do you expect Linda to remember history from the 30's when she wasn't even born yet.
Peter might have been in his 30's by then, but Linda's parents probably weren't even born yet.
frank –
There he goes again.
As if lying about his own record wasn't enough, now our opponent is lying about our campaign.
Dick Blumenthal is telling voters Linda wants to cut the minimum wage.
The truth is that Linda opposes any cuts to the minimum wage.
Several reporters, eager to slow the momentum of our campaign, wrote false accounts of an event where Linda was endorsed by the small business community. Video from the event shows these reports were fabricated -- and widely-respected reporter Mark Pazniokas, of the Connecticut Mirror, explains: "She never said that."
But that hasn't stopped our opponent from launching a massive smear campaign spreading the lie.
Career politician Dick Blumenthal will say anything to get elected, including misspeaking about his war record, about his special interest ties, about his support for a national energy tax, and, now, about our campaign to change Washington.
In fact, Dick Blumenthal admits he has the exact same position as Linda on the minimum wage.
If you hear someone talking about the attacks on our campaign at the coffee shop, at the soccer game, or while you're talking to neighbors, don't let our opponent's attacks spread any further. Make sure they know the facts.
Sincerely,
Ed Patru
Communications Director
Linda McMahon For Senate 2010
This has been happening all over the country. Democrats have no record to run on because they have been destroying this country, and Blumenthal is no different with his long record of destroying jobs and driving businesses by the hundreds out of Connecticut with his business destroying law suits over anything and everything, so he has to run on destroying his opponent even if he has to resort to lies, just like how he was spat upon while returning from combat in Vietnam.
The McMahon campaign announced that Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown will campaign with U.S. Senate contender Linda McMahon in Milford CT on October 9, 2010 at Milford City Hall.
Senator Scott Brown (R) defeated Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley (D) in January 2010 in a special election to fill the seat left vacant by the death of longtime Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D).
Hartford Courant cartoonist Bob Englehart weighs in on the increasingly tight race for the U.S. Senate seat between Democrat Richard Blumenthal and Republican Linda McMahon with his political cartoon....
http://blogs.courant.com/bob_englehart/2010/09/
october-1-2010.html
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Tell me that it isn't so!
Based with today's New Britain Herald Peter Spano, Secretary to the New Britain Town Committee, was out supporting the Republican Linda yesterday.
PETER IS ON THE DEMOCRATIC TOWN COMMITTEE AND APPARENTLY IS SUPPOTING LINDA INSTEAD OF BLUMENTHAL!
October 1, 2010 12:55 PM
A short lesson in democracy in the U.S.: We can vote for anyone we chose, regardless of our party affiliation. Peter Spano is an intelligent man. Of course, working with Mark Bernacki might have had some influence on him..:)
Peter, keep doing the right thing like this and you might even earn my respect.
I am glad to hear that you are supporting Linda!
Watch Linda kick Dick tonight!
Republican Linda McMahon and Democrat Richard Blumenthal survived the first of their three televised debates in an hourlong confrontation sponsored by The Hartford Courant and Fox CT.
Mrs. McMahon got off to a strong start, Mr. Blumenthal took longer to find his footing. Then he did, the 5-term attorney general dominated the professional wrestling mogul, causing her to make repeated attempts to explain her support for the minimum wage.
The Debate Is A Draw: McMahon Zings, Blumenthal Punches.......
The Scott Whippie article in The Herald 10/5/2010 "Minimum Wage - More Harm Than Good".
Herald Reporter Whippie comments "that it is a plea that the media refrain from harping on the minimum wage and their unwavering belief that Linda McMahon intends to reduce it".
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