DeStefano Strikes At Malloy in his Own City
Remember when Dan Malloy was making trips up to New Haven to meet with (and be endorsed by) New Haveners disgruntled with the DeStefano administration?
Now it's payback time.
According to a recent press release, DeStefano will be holding a news conference tomorrow with the UAW local 2337 to announce their endorsement of his candidacy for governor. The UAW 2337 represents about 400 Stamford city workers.
DeStefano has spent the first few weeks after the convention campaigning hard. Malloy, by contrast, has been relatively quiet.
This may well wake Malloy up.
12 comments:
Looks like stepping on the necks of the folks who keep Stamford Streets clean and their water flowing and their infrastucture in good condition in order to keep those McMansion owner tax raises as low as possible is coming back to Bite DLC Dan in the ass.
Brass Anon said... "
When was the last time that union endorsements carried anyone to an election victory? "
Endorsements don't; paid poll help can however.
Chris Murphy knocked out 14 year incumbant Angleo Fusco with big help from unions.
mod is good said...
" I'm a middle class, middle-aged voter trying to raise a family, keep my kids off drugs and away from violence, earn a decent living and take care of my aging parents. Frankly, I wish someone would pander to my demographic the way they pander to the unions."
Welcome to the Republican Party!
How do ya take your coffee?
-ACR
mod is good said... "the party's stance on gay and womens' issues."
Safe, legal pregnancy termination was brought the US originally by Republican Gov. Nelson Rockefeller in 1971.
The CT GOP has fielded twice (or more?) an openly Gay man for congress in the 3rd district.
The CT Republican house is managed by a former GOP state rep; an openly Gay male.
Wow, ACR, I guess we can all forget about the Amendment to the Constitution, that everyone knows won't pass and is just being used to get people who don't want gay people to marry to the polls in November, that the Republicans are pushing in Congress, right now!
Maybe I'm a Republican too!
Gabe said...
Wow, ACR, I guess we can all forget about the Amendment to the Constitution
Pandering to the Bible Belt; some of our people are known to do that.
We're in New England however where the Republicans are all considered RINO's by the nut-case ultra right.
Then again; do you honestly think many Dems would be elected if people took them as obnoxiously liberal as Leahy, Kennedy, etc.?
Goes both ways.
One glance at Mark Warner and half the GOP starts thinking of cross voting.
Reality Check. This is NOT news. The Stamford municipal union's umbrella association - UAW Region 9A - endorsed DeStefano months ago - I am sure partly because of its dissatisfaction with Malloy re: its Stamford local. This is just part of the psyche game that both sides in a struggle engage in.
David McCluskey
UAW member from a longtime UAW family who is supporting Malloy because I want a Democratic Governor.
Hi Bruce, I would agree that the CT AFL-CIO is more united and united earlier than ever. I think the potential is there for Labor to determine the outcome of the Guv's race. However, from my perspective, most of the excitement and energy among Labor activists is with the U.S. Senate race. Labor will work for DeStefano, but I haven't yet seen the enthusiasm.
Hi Bruce,
I formally committed my support to Lamont weeks ago and voted for him at the State Convention. I accompanied him around the Celebrate West Hartford event this past Sunday.
David
New post about universal health care plans is up.
TSC - I remember it and I think it is disgusting that so many Democrats were complicit in the passing of that legislation.
But before we get all misty-eyed about the bipartisian cooperation in making sure that two people who love each other and manage to get married in one state will have that marriage disregarded in another, lets remember that:
- Of the 85 voting in favor of DOMA in the Senate, 53 were Republicans.
- Not one Republican (not even one of the 7 New England Republicans who voted against cloture for the Amendment today) voted no.
- Senate Democrats split 32-14 in favor; Senate Republicans were in favor 53-0.
- The Senate legislation was sponsered by Republican Don Nickles and co-sponsered by 24 other Senators, 23 of them Republicans (interestingly, Judd Gregg of NH, who voted against cloture today (after voting for it last year) was among them).
- In the House, of the 342 votes in favor, 224 were Republicans and 118 were Democrats.
- Of the 67 no votes, 65 were Democrats, 1 was Dem-leaning Bernie Sanders, and 1 was Republican Steve Gunderson from Wisconsin (the only openly gay Republican in the House).
- The Republicans split 224-1 in favor and the Democrats split 118-65 (or 66 depending on how you want to count Bernie) against.
- The legislation was sponsered by Republican Bob Barr and co-sponsered by 117 members, 106 Republicans and 11 Democrats
- Republicans had control of both legislatures and scheduled the votes to happen in the summer and fall before the 1996 elections.
I was surprised that not one Republican from New England voted against DOMA in the Senate; If you had asked me before I looked it up, I would have been sure that Snowe and Chafee would have voted against.
Also, even if every Democrat had voted in favor of DOMA, it doesn't change the fact that the Republican leadership pushed this particular Amendment for purely political reasons: If they can count, they knew it didn't have a prayer of cloture, much less passing (it lost a vote since last year - picked up Byrd and lost Specter and Gregg; the numbers look funky because Hagel (in favor) and Dodd and Rockefeller (against) were not present).
Obviously, in the House, there were more Democrats in favor than against, I mistyped...
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