Unlike Blumenthal’s people, who have been outside the Bushnell and declining comment to reporters since the morning rush, the 15 or so later-arriving Linda McMahon demonstrators apparently have overseers, walking up and down the sidewalk keeping them in line and, presumably, smiling. So a guy in a red parka and a tie named Jason, who declined to identify himself further, was walking the sidewalk across from the Bushnell without a sign, passing word along to the McMahon troops, who declined to offer the most-mundane kind of “Gee Linda is great” quote to the Blogster. Not too much riding on the debate tonight, eh?
At least David Lang, 49, of Wethersfield, was having fun, reading aloud from Internet research about McMahon right behind a line of her supporters signaling to traffic at the corner of Capitol Avenue and Washington Avenue. “Apparently they don’t have an environmental policy,” said Lang, who is confined to a wheelchair, earing “Blumenthal” stickers on his chair amdn baseball hat. “She doesn’t believe in global warming… I’m in shock that a person like Linda McMahon could ever even run for office… When you mess with Social Security and Medicaid you deal with people with no recourse.”