As you may know, we are expecting some major changes in the months ahead. We expect to move off of Blogger and to a new server, to redesign the site and to refocus our attention on municipal elections, the actions of our members of Congress in Washington, and the upcoming session of the General Assembly.
Part of the changes happening here is a reorganization of our front page commentators. I've decided to keep a core group of people working on the site: CGG, disgruntled_republican, Gabe and myself. I know that this skews the front page to the left a little, but I promise you that we will do our best to cover things from all sides and represent all points of view. We may add on more commentators in the future, but for now it will just be the four of us.
Please join me in thanking Turfgrrl, Authentic Connecticut Republican, Bobby McGee and Chris MC for all the hard work they've put in on the site, and I hope that they'll continue to be part of the community in the comments section. They're all very talented people, and I wish them the very best of luck for the future!
It's my hope that this site will continue to grow and change, and these changes that you're seeing now and will continue to see in the future will add to the quality of the site and further our mission of providing a nonpartisan forum for Connecticut political discussion.
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life just good
Sweet news!
This calls for a celebration...I'm playing "Everyday Sunshine" by Fishbone on by iPod right now!
Tons of interesting city elections in the state and with videoblogging making a huge impact on the political scene, 2007 should be another great year to be a blogger in CT.
GC,
Who did you piss off at FIB?
I remember debunking a poll they did (oversampled old people, leading questions), and they haven't liked me since. I can't say I'm sad.
I can't help but feel that GC is simpling heeding the requests of lefties who jumped all over Chris and Turf. I suppose I'll continue to read the blog, but I won't have nearly as much to look forward to without them.
I can't believe that GC cares what any of us think. It's just not his style. He just calls 'em like he sees 'em.
Why else would his site be so popular? OK, the maps roped us all in. But the point is, with CLP, GC created CTs version of McCain's Straight Talk Express.
I didn't like Turfgrl's posts because I felt they were frequently analytically dishonest (using some of the facts to support your argument, while ignoring those that don't - for example #1, see George Will's column in the WaPo).
That and the Norwalk political beat was a little tiresome.
Genghis, I implore you to not bring on Republicans merely because you would like "balance." There is a difference between a conservative point of view and a partisan. I think the two are frequently confused.
CTs version of McCain's Straight Talk Express.
Anyone interested in honesty and integrity in politics would be insulted by that comparison.
There is no straight talk coming from McCain. If he were truely up for straight talk he would tell us why he had all of the Abrahmoff Emails and didn't find anything to do with them when he headed up the Senate Committee for Indian Affrairs investigation into Abrahmoff, and might shed some light on his own involvement in the scandal?
Not only did he take money from Abrahmoff clients... But he headed the typical GOP coverup/investigation into it all.
Straight talk express? That is a term that is thoroughly abused by the fringe right wing whackosphere elements that inhabit the faaar right wing space that is only slightly to the right of supposed centrist politicians like McCain.
Got any other good jokes? lol
excellent
Connecticut Man 1: I'm pretty sure that was a spot of sarcasm re: "straight talk express."
I didn't "like" turfgirl's posts, but I enjoyed them, and the process of going back and forth with a multi-partisan group over how to interpret news events. I don't think CLP's strength is in being "nonpartisan" or "centrist" or some BS, its strength is in the fact that it's not an echo chamber, that people with strong views across a broad range of public opinion are willing to stay engaged on a day to day basis.
To that end, the scurrilous conservatives on here make it a much more interesting place to read and comment, and I for one would be interested in seeing a more strident conservative among the regulars. (CGG is a strident enough liberal for me, even though she's a diplomat on CLP :)
Looks like the echo chamber era has already begun.
Why were 4 individuals above restricted from the front page? It seems they provided some balance and I found their comments interesting.
well, another CT news source admits to leaning left...I only hope disgruntled Republican is a bit more reliable here than Jevin Rennie is in the same role at the Courant
Left Reorg- yuck!
I am sorry to see turf go!.. I will not visit this site anymore-I liked the Norwalk comments. God Bless you turf. Where are you going --so I could follow?
From the FI blog:
in reality, it’s not clear that Internet liberals are really pacifists, and certainly not in the way that McGovern was; they’re against the Iraq War, intensely and occasionally to the point of derangement, but I’m not so sure that this reflects an abiding dovishness so much as a visceral hatred for the Bush administration and all its works. And on fiscal issues, they’re definitely more center-left than lefty…But religion—ah, religion. Take a stroll through the lefty blogosphere, and it’s pretty clear that long after George W. Bush has passed (mercifully) into history, the Kossack hordes will still be united on at least one burning issue: the need to resist the looming theocracy. And these folks don’t just view religious conservatives as their political opponents; they actively loathe us, with a passion that exceeds even the sometimes over-the-top fear and loathing of secular humanists that you find on the Religious Right.
Angelina,
I have to wonder what a gay marriage referendum would be like. I think people would approve civil unions by a decent margin, but gay marriage could be very, very close.
If the referendum had an option "stop bothering us with this issue" now that would pass by a margin making Dick Blumenthal look unpopular
Local politics means Connecticut and yes, city politics. Turf and others gave ctlocalpolitics the appearance of being balanced and even tolerent. It is the intolence of the extreme left and the extreme right that will always be their downfall...thankfully. In this case, you exhibit a lefty intolerence of other points of view and therefore your blog becomes bland and another left wing blah, blah, blah. Have fun preaching to the choir. Real discourse can be found elsewhere.
Turfgirl: Keep the Norwalk stuff coming. The site is local politics and I live in Norwalk and like to hear what is going on without all of th spin. You do a great job at doing just that. I think your detractors get a little huffy becvause the truth hurts.
I've dissed Turrf's take more than once but at least her stuff is thought provoking...not standard issue ideological talking points
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