Hello gentle readers: Welcome to what I’m calling the Connecticut
Blog-o-rama. I intend it to be used for news-worthy items and comment
for which there might not be room in the daily Connecticut Post
newspaper. It’s Monday the 7th of January, but if Blog-o-rama began
last Thursday, I would have posted an item about the relative success
of Sen. Chris Dodd to reach his 2-percent goal in the Iowa caucuses.
Unfortunately, he didn’t anticipate the chances of the “2″ being
located to the right of two decimal points. The good news, quipped
Peter Urban, the Connecticut Post’s Washington reporter, is that
Dodd’s .02 percent didn’t met the threshold for a field sobriety
test, let alone a BreathAlyzer.
Today, as a warm-up to the Super Duper Tuesday primary, in which
Connecticut’s role will be diminished to a shadow amid the hundreds
of convention delegates at stake throughout the nation’s larger
states, the ever-optimistic Chris Healy, GOP state chairman announced
a fund-raising “straw poll” on January 25 in Middletown.
Connecticut Republicans are invited to pay $10 for a ballot there in
the Elks lodge, or on the State Republican Party’s website
(www.ctgop.org). Healy said part of the proceeds will be donated to
the Connecticut Breast Cancer Coalition Foundation.
“The Straw Poll is an exciting way for Republicans to take their
case to their fellow party members, exchange ideas and pick their
candidate a week before the February 5th primary,” Healy said in a
statement. “This election is historic in many ways and Republicans
in Connecticut will show they are ready to win Connecticut for our
candidate for the first time since 1988.”
The lodge’s doors will open at 6 and jawboning, buttonholing and
friendly coercion will continue until balloting begins around 8. Each
campaign will get 10 minutes to present their candidate or surrogate.
Currently there are 633,119 state Democrats and 392,076 Republicans
eligible to vote in the primaries. There are 808,380 unaffiliated
voters
Connecticut’s primary will coincide with balloting and caucuses in
Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware,
Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri,
New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee,
Utah and West Virginia.
Ken Dixon, good move in taking a page from Lennie Grimaldi’s Only in Bridgeport web site. I hope the site is as succesfull as Lennie’s seems to be. You shall be blamed for creating a venue in wich folks such as myself will be making some interesting comments and observations.
Forget Supper Tuesday for now, lets talk about the Bridgeport Town Committee. I been living in the 130 th. district since I left the City Council in 2001. The 130th. is regarded as Black Rock, allthough there are other neighborhoods in the district. I live on Maplewood Avenue section, wich I refer to as the Black Sheep of Black Rock due to the many years of Abandonment and Neglect from those endorsed by the 130th. Democratic Town Committee. I have everything ready, including the candidate consent form. I met with Danny Roach who would not even offer one seat for me, despite having a vacant one. The 130th. needs reform and I looking for 8 Democrats to join me. I intend to have a town committee with as less City Employees as possible, unlike the current one. It shall be as diverse as possible with members being from different section of the district. I am very interested in including supporters of the Burroughs complex and Caruso supporters. Consider this a press release and please forward this to Bill Cummings. Good luck in your competition with Lenni Grimaldi.
Comment by Joel Gonzalez — January 11th, 2008 @ 10:57 pm