By Ken Dixon
Staff Writer
HARTFORD — Peter Schiff, the Weston financial analyst, will be on the Aug. 10 primary ballot for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination, Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz announced Monday..
During a news conference in the Capitol, she said that local registrars through the state said he gathered more than 8,600 signatures.
Also, Rob Merkle and Rick Torres qualified to run in the 4th Congressional District Republican primary against state Sen Dan Debicella, R-Shelton, the endorsed candidate.
Mark Greenberg also qualified to run a 5th Congressional District primary against Republican state Sen. Sam S.F. Caligiuri of Waterbury.
Schiff obtained about 400 more signatures than needed to reach the threshold of 2 percent of enrolled members of the GOP in the state.
For those like me who say “Let the PEOPLE decide!”, this is excellent news!
This is a WIN already for the people, to now have the Primary on Aug. 10th—in which THE PEOPLE will have their say as to who will best represent us on the Nov. ballot and in Washington! We *should* be choosing our candidates, rather than have ‘the good old boy’ network making those decisions.
There has been entirely too much ‘politics as usual’, involving the arm-twisting, intimidation, and back-room DEALS of the party conventions—which has directly contributed to the poor representation and economic disaster our nation is in!