Richard Mario Cianci Jr.

Rich was the son of the late, former Commissioner of Housing and State Central member, Richard M. Cianci, Sr - and was himself a candidate for the 81st assembly district in 2006

Richard Mario Cianci Jr., 33, of Southington, died unexpectedly on Monday, January 25, 2010.

Born in New Britain, he was a Southington resident most of his life.

He was formerly employed as a Police Officer in Beacon Falls and West Hartford and was currently employed as a medical sales representative for KCI.

Surviving are his mother, Gail Cianci-Hageman and her husband Doug of Southington; a sister, Christina Anderson and her husband Christopher of Southington; his grandparents, Nicholas and Maud Cianci of Vero Beach, FL, Roy and Grace Wennberg of Kensington; his great-grandmother, Greta Wennberg of Farmington; his nephew, Brian Anderson; and many aunts, uncles, and cousins.
He was predeceased by his father, Richard M. Cianci Sr.

He was the son of Gail Wennberg Cianci-Hageman and Richard Mario Cianci, Sr. A Southington resident most of his life, he graduated from Mooreland Hill School, Southington High School and attended Bryant College and The University of New Haven. Following college he decided to pursue a career in law enforcement. He was employed as a police officer in Beacon Falls and West Hartford. While in the line of duty he sustained a back injury, which ended his career in law enforcement and left him in a condition of chronic pain. He was presently employed as a medical sales representative for KCI-Therapeutic Support Systems.

Richard was always very polite, well-spoken, and impeccably groomed. He had an industrious nature. When he was 11 years-old, at his own initiative, undertook a paper route and continued it until he graduated from high school. As a teenager, he started his own lawn mowing business. He always excelled at work. Richard had a great love of animals and was devoted to his pets. In 2002 he married Christy O’Connor and the two of them remained close friends, even until the day of his death.

In recent years, Richard had gone through difficult times. The death of his father was a blow from which he never really recovered. Those who knew Richard best will remember him for his bright smile, his fun-loving spirit and practical jokes, his helpful nature, and his love for all of God’s living creatures.

Funeral services will be held on Friday at 11:00 AM at Bethany Covenant Church in Berlin.
Burial will be in St. Mary Cemetery, New Britain; with a reception following (around 12:30 - 1:00) at the church.

Visitation will be held on Friday morning from 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM at Erickson-Hansen Funeral Home, 411 So. Main St., New Britain.

Memorial donations may be made to the American Red Cross for the victims of the Haiti earthquake or to Bethany Covenant Church, 785 Mill St., Berlin, CT 06037.

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Massachusetts Regains Consciousness

Brown Wins
Finally after a half-century binge, the citizens of Massachusetts woke up this morning dazed, many no-doubt still queasy, wondering just what the heck they must have been thinking for the past half century.

Pickup truck owner and normal guy, Scott Brown was the victor in the special election held January 20th in Massachusetts.

Having narrowly missed electing
the ideological heir to this:

All across the state people are being overheard saying;

"Oooh I've got a wicked headache....you're kiddin' me? We kept re-electing that guy?
No wonda the frigin country's goin' down th toilet, the rest of the country must've been really PO'd at us!

DEMOCRATS SMEARED Martin Luther King

By Frances Rice

As we honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the month of his birth, let us also pause to remember the indignities he endured, who caused his suffering – the Democrats – and how.

Character assassination. That’s the tactic used by Democrats in the 1960’s to discredit Dr. King, a Republican who was fighting the Democrats and trying to stop them from denying civil rights to blacks.

The relentless disparagement of Dr. King by Democrats led to his being physically assaulted and ultimately to his tragic death.

Prior to his death, Democrats bombed Dr. King’s home several times. The scurrilous efforts by the Democrats to harm Dr. King included spreading rumors that he was a Communist and accusing him of being a womanizer and a plagiarist.

An egregious act against Dr. King occurred on October 10, 1963. With the approval of Democrat President John F. Kennedy, Democrat Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy – President Kennedy’s brother – authorized the wiretapping of Dr. King’s telephone by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Wiretaps were placed by the FBI on the telephones in Dr. King’s home and office. The FBI also bugged Dr. King’s hotel rooms when he traveled around the country.

he trigger for this unsavory wiretapping was apparently Dr. Kings’ criticism of the Kennedy Administration, according to the author David Garrow in his book, Bearing the Cross. The justification given by the Kennedy Administration publicly was that two of Dr. King’s associates, including David Levinson, had ended their association with the Communist Party in order to work undercover and influence Dr. King. However, after years of continuous and extensive wiretapping, the FBI found no direct links of Dr. King to the Communist Party.

Reagan signs Martin Luther King bill

The unrelenting efforts by Democrats to tarnish Dr. King’s reputation continued for years after his death. To his credit, Republican President Ronald Reagan ignored the Democrats’ smear campaign and made Dr. King’s birthday a holiday. Under President George W. Bush, a memorial to Dr. King is being built in Washington, DC.

Today, while professing to revere Dr. King, Democrats are still trying to sully his image by making remarks that diminish his civil rights achievements and continuing to claim that Dr. King embraced Communism – a system that is secularist and socialist.

In reality, Dr. King was a Christian who held deeply religious beliefs and was guided by his faith and his Republican Party principles in his struggle to gain equality for blacks. He did not embrace the type of socialist, secularist agenda that is promoted by the Democratic Party today, which includes fostering dependency on welfare that breaks up families, supporting same-sex marriage and banning God from the public square.

An understanding of who the real Dr. King was can be gained from a glimpse of Dr. King as a young man who participated in an oratorical contest when he was 14 years old. The title of his speech was “The Negro and the Constitution” which had the following sentences: “We cannot have an enlightened democracy with one great group living in ignorance…We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flout the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule….”

If Dr. King were still alive, he would be slandered by Democrats in the same way that they smeared him in the 1960’s and demean all black Republicans today.




Frances Rice is a lawyer, a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel and Chairman of the National Black Republican Association. She can be contacted at: www.NBRA.info/ and go to contact us page.

Republicans to host candidates for Governor

On Thursday, January 21st at 6pm, the Second Senatorial District Republican Party will host a reception for candidates for the Republican nomination for Governor.

Five candidates, both officially announced and unannounced:

Lt. Governor Mike Fedele

Ambassador, Tom Foley

R. Nelson ("Oz") Griebel

Mayor Boughton (Danbury)

Former (single term) Congressman
Larry Denardis

Location for this event is Vito's by the Water, 1936 Blue Hills Avenue Extension, Windsor, Connecticut, phone number is 860-285-8660.

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The format will be simple: an introduction, a short speech, and personal greetings by each candidate.

The Republican State convention will be held next May in Hartford.

There is no charge for this event.
However, reservations would be appreciated.

Please call:

Windsor Town Chairman, Dave Raney (860) 688-2943

Bloomfield Town Chairman, Joe Wactowski (860) 243-8491

Hartford Town Chairman, Mike McGarry (860) 570-1312

A Letter to Local Town Committee Chairs

All across Connecticut, tired run down Republican Town Committee Chairs are considering whether or not they’re up to or willing to be second-guessed, insulted, and criticized by committee members for another two year cycle.

Their frustration and exhaustion is understandable even for those that enjoyed successful local election cycles two months ago.

Every move local chairs make is subject to review by committee members who often have half or none of the facts and the harshest criticism tends to arrive from those members who rarely write checks, fail to attend fund-raisers and certainly don’t do any heavy lifting on behalf of the party.
None of that keeps them from calling or emailing however.

For example:
A chairman’s able to purchase lawn signs for 4 dollars without obligation to buy weeks or months in advance and with no pre-set minimum. Members complain that the closer (by 8 miles) vendor didn’t get the business at over 9 buck’s per-sign.

The Chairman is holding a large fund-raiser at their home; and is told,
“Don’t go micro-managing the event” (At their own home?)

The above incidents are true, only the town is being left anonymous to protect the guilty.

Even in victory the local chair is lucky to get so much as an honorable mention; instead the victory is credited to overall national mood.

Below is an open letter to those hard working local Town Committee Chairs that should stay and they know it, but are considering this coming March as an opportunity to escape.

You're going to remain Chair if for no other reason than it's the right thing to do for your town, your state, and your nation.

You're well aware that America has long been the last escape for victims of tyranny.

Thus should we as a nation fail, the planet as we know it will descend into an abbess with individual liberty and devotion to God both long forgotten within just two or three generations.

You also know that should the Republican Party fail, America will as well.

With your God given talents, and the pure white hearts within you and your spouse; despite all sorts of criticism, snide remarks, and rude uncalled for overt attacks, you overcame all odds and forced your candidates to run harder than even they had intended resulting in a total GOP win just two months ago.

While the casual observer might confuse the victory as some referendum on national events; why then did the adjacent town where they delivered a higher percentage plurality for Bush in 2000, 2004 and McCain in 2008 than your town did, fail to win more than one single Republican seat on their Town Council?

Your Republicans were victorious because they outworked their political opponents and to assume anything else is an insult to every Republican candidate as well as the entire Republican Town Committee.

Further, we know you. State central members and others have witnessed you in action.
We're familiar with your non-political concerns regarding the death of a young Town Committee member, a local under-funded Seminary, or the neighborhood military reservist about to embark on a tour in Iraq. One need not be among the most observant to conclude that your efforts are driven by a desire to serve God Himself through kind acts towards others than any other desire.

You've worked hard, and received less than the accolades you deserve, quite the contrary in fact.

I know you're weary of the position and its responsibilities, and I wish I was wrong about this, but I'm not.

You must remain at the helm, taking the pot shots directed at you, and being second-guessed constantly by those that have less than half the facts on an issue but hold a strong opinion anyway.

For you to do less will expose your town to further harm and with that further erosion of conservative ideals which will only weaken the chances of other Republicans locally and those involved in regional and state races.

I don't believe that God's gift to mankind of free will is served by a government that restricts the liberty of it's citizens, or encroaches on their ability to worship Him (or not) as they see fit.

Neither do you.

You have no choice but to go on for you know others will fail where you have prospered, because you know in your heart why you have been successful where others have failed.
God has smiled upon your efforts as He recognizes the servant’s heart within you.

God Bless you, and may He grant you the patience you'll need to match the tenacity you have.

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