Here's a peek at a portion of Lamont's speech from last night...
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If I was in Dodds camp I'd advise him to have as little contact as possible with anyone employed by the near dead Hartford Courant and anything attached to it.
PS: At this rate, about $1 per hour or $750 a month, Rob should have about $2200 to run the Primary in August...hardly enough for even a legitimate cash slush fund. But it could buy a web site that would not go down even if all his supporters accessed it at once! because Connecticut voters count: http://www.CTVotersCount.org
My guess is that he'll out-raise Dodd in Q2, and bring in north of $1.5 Million in the hope that he can get way out in front of Sam Caliguiri and force him out of the race.
Your deluding yourself if you don't take Rob Simmons very, very seriously. He held the bluest of all congressional districts in 2000-2006, and he knows the D.C. game very well, maybe even better than Chris Dodd.
The questions for this quarter will be: 1). How much $$$ Caliguiri will be able to raise. (North of $500,000 is what he needs to get his campaign rolling), and 2). Will Dodd turn to Lieberman for fundraising help. (Dodd's inner circle gave to his Presidential campaign, and are therefore prohibited from helping out this cycle. Lieberman has one helluva list, and wants to broker a deal for Dodd's support in 2012.)
Simmons has used (and probably still uses) the same PR firm Rell and Liberman have used so don't credit Simmons with more prowess than he actually possesses. He's going to wage a dirty, nasty, viscous campaign if his last campaign is any guide and get good press on top of it but there are swaths of Connecticut where he is going to fail. If we're lucky, Liberman will come out and support Simmons like Liberman supported Nancy Johnson and Chris Shays.
Great work, hope you feel better.
Jerry Poricelli found himself in the unusual position of speaking in support of legislation he wished wasn't needed this week as he joined local business owners and officials at a small rally in front of his grocery store. The bill, HB 6187, would require businesses with more than 50 employees to grant paid sick leave. It passed the state Senate last year. This year, Poricelli hopes it becomes state law.
The bill, HB 6187, would require businesses with more than 50 employees to grant paid sick leave. It passed the state Senate last year. This year, Poricelli hopes it becomes state law.
We liberal hippie activists haven't lost our local roots!
If there was any doubt about whether Ned Lamont will run for governor in 2010, it may have been solved last night. Lamont gave what sounds an awful lot like a stump speech to a gathering of liberals at the New Haven Lawn Club during a Democracy For America health care talk. It was the same anecdotes, the same talking points, the same pace and energy on display last Friday when I sat down for a one-on-one interview with Lamont at his cable company headquarters in Greenwich. His critique of Gov. Jodi Rell was the same -- she had a chance to boldly reform the way state government does business, but opted instead to "turn off the lights" and nickel and dime her way through the current state budget crisis. --snip-- I could be wrong, but I predict we'll see Lamont officially declare himself a candidate before too long.
It was the same anecdotes, the same talking points, the same pace and energy on display last Friday when I sat down for a one-on-one interview with Lamont at his cable company headquarters in Greenwich. His critique of Gov. Jodi Rell was the same -- she had a chance to boldly reform the way state government does business, but opted instead to "turn off the lights" and nickel and dime her way through the current state budget crisis.
--snip--
I could be wrong, but I predict we'll see Lamont officially declare himself a candidate before too long.
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