We've made our choice for the Democratic nomination for governor: Dan Malloy.
How this works: The team members of the site voted on the candidate they supported, and the candidate with more support was endorsed. An endorsement and a dissent were written and posted.
Why we're doing this: Endorsing candidates allows us to express our opinion on the candidates. Since we have such a wide variety of opinion among team members and readers, we also thought it was important to publish a dissent from the endorsement.
Tomorrow: Our U.S. Senate endorsement.
Links:
Malloy: A Slightly Better Choice
DeStefano Dissent
12 comments:
So are Republican bloggers voting on a Democratic primary endorsement? Not advice that a Democrat would want to follow, particularly in the case of the U.S. Senate election.
Are you planning to have endorsements in other primary races? Give the Republicans a chance to weigh in on the 1st CD primary, get thoughts on the different State Legislative races?
Also, the LG race is seperate from the Governor's race. You can vote for Malloy and Slifka or DeStefano and Glassman. Do people here have reasons they are going to vote for an LG candidate, other than who they are running with?
Without GC even Explaining the idiotic way He did this I can tell you Every Republican Voted for Line A.
Why Shouldn't they? If they can't vote for a Republican they get to Choose The DLC Twins which is another wa of saying REPUBLICAN LITE.
Republicans , Greens and Unafiliated don't get to vote in a Democratic Primary and their opinions don't count Until AFTER August 8th either.
I agree with Anon 4:58 on his point, but I add this:
Why on earth would a Republican want to support Lamont or Lieberman in the primary? It's clear that Jodi Rell wants to run against JDS and Alan Gold (or any other Republican) needs a three-way race to win in November.
If I was a Republican looking to hang on to the Governor's mansion, I'd be praying for JDS. He might as well be Ralph Nader.
I have a question. What was the breakdown here? I know that CGG, who by all account is a liberal Democrat, endorses DeStefano. Who did Gabe, Turfgrrl, and the rest vote for?
I wrote the majority of the Malloy endorsement, so it should be clear where I stand. I leave it to the rest to make their votes public or private, as they will.
I apologize for the delay in answering, I have no problem making my vote public, but I was out helping my sister-in-law buy a new car (unsuccessfully).
I voted to endorse Malloy (bluecoat, I am sorry I shocked you). CTKeith - I voted Malloy despite his DLC ties, not because of them. I think he would make a better governor. That said, I like both of them and will be supporting the winner of the primary. Obviously.
And, to the surprise of absolutely no one, you will find out tomorrow that I voted to endorse Lamont. Careful readers will have just found out though, because I just wrote it.
chris mc said: "Malloy has turned downtown Stamford around...."
Stamford really was the slums before he became Mayor, huh? All those Fortune 500 companies that were in Stamford before he became Mayor really were dragging the city down. Good thing a large corporation like Diagio moved its HQ out of Stamford to Norwalk so your boy could clean the place up. Good thing Stamford has the highest commercial vacancy rate in the country. Please, chris mc, stop drinking the Kool Aid and get a dose of reality. Your boy Malloy takes credit for the jobs created by the prior administration and financed by the State of CT. All the UBS formerly Swiss Bank jobs were the result of a deal that was signed prior to his first election. Get real pal. Want more?
Anonymous 10:48
I guess you've never lived in Stamford if you question the fact that Malloy is largely responsible for a HUGE change in downtown Stamford.
When I lived here in the late 80's, there were plenty of Fortune 500 jobs downtown. And every single person bar the maintenance staff got in their cards and LEFT downtown Stamford when work was over.
Now there's a thriving downtown. Restaurants, bars, safe parks with WiFi, a library that's open for longer hours, cafes with sidewalk seating, and hundreds of pedestrians strolling around. There is high-density housing. People LIVE downtown now, not just work here.
(Holy god I think I agreed with Turfgrrl on something. Scary.)
I've heard that Stamford has a NIIICE library.
Genghis - The Ferguson Library system in Stamford is amazing.
They just did a multi-million dollar renovation of one of the branches, out in Springdale, which was in an old farmhouse. Library geeks like us absolutely salivate over it -- it even has a fireplace that you can cozy up in front of and read in an armchair.
The Ferguson Library downtown is a beautiful old building. I consider it the anchor of the entire city of Stamford. Unfortunately, it's gotten a bit run down and a bit commercialized (with a Starbucks replacing the old periodical reading room), but I know some people who really love the addition of the Starbucks. It certainly keeps traffic up.
My mom used to work a block away from the downtown Ferguson, and I spent almost every day of all of my April, February, and summer vacations there when I was between 8-12 year old. (Nowadays most librarians are wary of unsupervised kids, but back then nobody said anything, and I was a good kid. I just curled up in a comfy corner and read half the collection!)
but does it matter? I mean it's like the flounder and the halibut fighting over who's better able to face the shark (Rell). Come November I'll vote for either the flounder or the halibut, but not with much hope.
Not that you asked me, but Malloy's robocalls were the most annoying events I've dealt with over the last few weeks--and that includes the heatwave we're in.
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