If you were looking to find the Republican most likely to create a winning coalition this fall to wrest the 5th district out of Democratic hands, the GOP debate in Torrington was a challenge. Granted, Andrew Roraback said he might well,maybe, accept some kind tax increase, this was a crowd unwilling to admit that Republicans bear any responsibility for the gridlock Congress.
To find what GOP party chair Jerry Labriola called the winning “Republican brand,” one had to look beyond most of the comments during the debate — a discussion dominated by talk about cutting taxes and eliminating Obamacare.
“This is a winnable race if we put the right person on the ticket,” Mike Clark said at the end. The rest of the candidates spent much of the debate showing they don’t want to do that.
Some other highlights from the standing room only debate in Torrington Monday afternoon:
Luckiest: Lisa Wilson-Foley because nobody mentioned John Rowland
Most confident: Mark Greenberg
Least likely to win in November: Mark Greenberg
Biggest threat to Chris Donovan: Andrew Roraback
Planned Parenthood Pro-Choice Award: Mike Clark and Lisa Wilson-Foley
Most disappointing: Clark, who filed an election complaint last week and then doesn’t even mention it on Monday.
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Compare Chris Donovan’s last debate performance to Andrew Roraback’s debate performance today. If Roraback and Donovan go head to head, Democrats should start worrying. Now. This will be one seat we don’t win.
You do not win liberals with a liberal. Liberals always pick Democrats over Republicans.
Roraback is a unacceptably liberal Republican. He would suppress the vote from conservatives, just like Foley will.
Greenberg is a true outsider. He does not need the big business money. He supports term limits, including pledging them himself. He opposes pensions for Congress.
We need to stop sending politicians to DC and expecting different results. Both parties have them. Greenberg is not one of them.
Greenberg is from another planet that’s how much of an outsider he is. Even I would vote for Donovan over such a jerk. He spent almost two million dollars last time and could not even get a delegate at the convention.
Just wait until the dirt starts to flow on Greenberg this time around. He is the most filthy of all.
Gridlock in Congress is better than an Alka-Seltzer when you’re stuffed to the gills with undigestable regulations.
How many hundreds of unnecessary laws were enacted since the heydays of Bill Clinton’e 2nd term? The economy was bustling then. What’s different now? Over a decade of oppressive regulations and ludicrous laws.
Defunding the glut of congressional practical jokes disguised as federal legislation would be the first step on the road back to fiscal sanity. Only Republicans have the guts to propose a cure to the cancer of America’s spending addiction.
The longer we wait for the medicine, the worse the symptoms become. The revenue cornucopia is shriveling. Democrats continue to squint through their socialist sphincter, eyeing ever destructive reactionary agendas.
The results of their expertise is swirling down the drain.
It’s time to flush them all on Election Day!
Tennessee “Race to the Top” Funding: $500 million
CT RRT funding: zero.
If CT put in application the quality of Tennessee the award would be $300 million.
Here’s the big however: a successful CT application to the Obama administration would inconvienence the teachers unions. Palmer and Loftus Levine couldn’t write the application. If Palmer and Loftus Levine don’t write the legislation and the RTT funding application? Then CT forfeits $300 million.
Get into the real price of Donovan’s seat. Track those federal funding shortfalls back to through the entire
“No Child Left Behind” program. For a state increasing taxes we sure kiss off a lot of Federal money to coddle the unions and then hire political cronies who can’t complete funding grant applications.
Here are the Race to the Top funding criteria. Note Malloy’s plan was carefully crafted to secure that $300 million in funding. Check the bullet points.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_to_the_Top#Criteria_for_Funding
And here’s the announcement that CT lost another $50 million in Round 3 funding.
http://tinyurl.com/d26rabyvog
So when have we taxpayers in CT paid enough VIG to the union mobsters? Is it when we’ve lost a billion in Federal Funding? $2 Billion?
When does Jepsen approach the Feds and tell them there’s a racketeering problem? When does the GOP speak up?
Even Rhode Island could muster the cohones to face down the unions and collect $75 million. On a per capita basis that would translate to over $250 million in CT.
CT does not need to raise taxes. Factor in the cost of racketeering and taxes would get cut every year over the next decade.
Bring on the feds
The CTMirror reports the Malloy administration and Legislature agree there is a $750 million shortfall in the budget beginning in 14 months (July 2013).
Be serious. CT can’t afford to kiss off these “Race to the Top” funds and curtsey every time Ms Palmer or Ms Loftus Levine rolls their eyes and sighs.
Call it what it is–racketeering. This micromanagement and blockage of Federal Funding Legislation is not Collective Bargaining! It’s racketeering!
Clark didn’t bring up the FEC complaint because both he and Greenberg got a ton of push back for tarnishing the GOP brand again. Nothing matters to those two losers except bringing a potential winner down. It was another backfire on them. It hurt Clark and Greenberg so bad they are done. Neither one will get 15% at the convention.
And the pro choice award REALLY belongs to Roraback. HE has 100% approval rating from NARAL and even supported for partial birth abortion and forcing Catholic hospitals to provide the morning after pill.
Wrong. Greenberg is the MOST likely to win in November. The reason Sam lost last cycle is because he was outspent by Murphy and the unions. Mark will spend whatever is necessary. He will not be outspent. There is nobody else in the race (including Lisa Wilson Foley) who can match his financial firepower.
He is also the most likely to win the primary because he is the most conservative candidate in the field. People who vote in GOP primaries (even in a liberal state like CT) are the conservative wing of the party. Mark’s message is resonating loudly with conservatives.
BTW, many of us see gridlock as a positive. The less Congress does the better of we will be. I wish we had more gridlock when Obamacare and the stimulus were passed.
Peter L: John Rowland tarnished the Republican Brand, over and over. He’s on vacation this week, so the damage he does will also be on vacation.