Data from: Connecticut Elections Enforcement Commission, e-Cris Reporting.
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Outspent by 98% - Fedele still garners over 30% of Republican Delegates
on Sunday, May 23, 2010
Data from: Connecticut Elections Enforcement Commission, e-Cris Reporting.
Fedele racks `em up! Shays, Cafero, DePino, & Gallo in 48 hour period.
on Saturday, May 15, 2010
Former 10 term Congressman, Chris Shays with Lt. Gov. Mike Fedele.
“I have known Mike Fedele for over thirty years and there is no candidate who is better prepared for the enormous job of being the next Governor of Connecticut,” said Shays.
Shays praised Fedele for creating jobs through his business in Connecticut, “not dismantling companies and sending jobs overseas,” a stab at GOP contender Tom Foley, whose firm would take over failing businesses to make them profitable for shareholders.
Shays praised Fedele for creating jobs through his business in Connecticut, “not dismantling companies and sending jobs overseas,” a stab at GOP contender Tom Foley, whose firm would take over failing businesses to make them profitable for shareholders.
Fedele, the only self-made man in contention for the nomination, is considered both the best public speaker as well as exuding a naturally warm decent "regular guy" image - which I can assure the reader is in fact the case.
“I know what kind of man Mike Fedele is, I know what kind of Governor he will make and I am proud to endorse him,”
Representative Cafero said.
“Mike Fedele has the knowledge, the vision and the values to align Connecticut’s state government with fiscal reality.
The reality is that families, businesses and even other state governments have made hard choices in order to survive -- while Connecticut Democrats continue to pretend that reality does not exist.
Cafero concluded;
I believe Mike Fedele will open the blinds and deliver a resounding wake-up call."
Representative Cafero said.
“Mike Fedele has the knowledge, the vision and the values to align Connecticut’s state government with fiscal reality.
The reality is that families, businesses and even other state governments have made hard choices in order to survive -- while Connecticut Democrats continue to pretend that reality does not exist.
Cafero concluded;
I believe Mike Fedele will open the blinds and deliver a resounding wake-up call."
Two former Connecticut Republican Party Chairmen endorsed Fedele as well.
"Mike Fedele's story is one very much like every Connecticut resident's -- a child of immigrants who has lived the American Dream,"
said George D. Gallo, who went on to say:
"Mike is a person of integrity, compassion and leadership. I am proud to call Mike Fedele my friend."
Chris DePino said.
"There is a crying need at the State Capitol for the voice of fiscal restraint and smaller government and I know Mike will
be that voice.
Mike has the courage to make the tough spending cuts that we must make in order to turn our economy around."
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.Republican Candidates for Governor
on Monday, May 10, 2010
Chester 1st Selectman Marsh has decided to run as an independent, while Newington Mayor Wright chose to run instead for Treasurer.
Those remaining?
Well they won't all be here in a couple of weeks.
Mark Boughton - a good man and pretty much everything he says about Danbury is true. There's little question that he's done a splendid job as mayor - his city looks great too.
Mike Fedele - Connecticut's current Lt. Governor. Fedele alone is truly both prepared for, and knowledgeable as to what and where to cut immediately.
What amounts to mere theory for other candidates is stone cold fact for Fedele; who like every Lt. Governor that's come before him has been nearly invisible for the past 4 years while he's been quietly taking notes.
In the 2010 race only Mike Fedele personifies the boot-strap work ethic of Horatio Alger.
Born in Italy with English being his second language, Fedele is our only gubernatorial candidate that offers the party an opportunity to meaningfully expand our base.
In that regard no other candidate offers anything what-so-ever.
Consider this - 19% (700,000) of Connecticut citizens are of Italian descent (the highest percentage in the U.S.), of that half are registered with a party and of those a full 70% are Democrats.
Neither party has ever fielded an Italian male for the CT's highest office in a general election. I would put forth that the majority will support Mike Fedele and that his election will amount to a watershed event for the Connecticut Republican Party.
Tom Foley - a good and decent man, and a loyal Republican.
Foley's handshake is good too, that he keeps his word would be an understatement.
However, after 50 or 60 years of our opponents painting the Republican Party as nothing but rich white country club members, Foley appears to have come directly from central casting to fulfill that role.
A major Bush supporter and later appointee, Foley served our president and nation with distinction.
Our opponents won't see it that way and instead of running for Governor they'll run against George Bush; which in CT won't increase Foley's chances.
Should he win the nomination and go on to be victorious in the general election as well; Foley will undoubtedly become the subject of almost every political cartoon in every newspaper in the state for his entire term.
Before the checkbooks
on Sunday, May 9, 2010
Once upon a time, not so long ago when a candidate for higher office sought supporters with which to build what was hoped to be a formidable campaign infrastructure, it began more quietly and over a year in advance.
The prospective candidates would go from town committee to town committee not solely to deliver their intra-party stump speech, but to learn of other candidates running for local office that year, and would lend them whatever celebrity they might possess as well as other intangible assets they might have acquired to help those locals win their respective races.
It made sense, it's better to have a few Selectmen or Town Council members in your corner than not. Besides, successful local campaigns are rarely won alone, and political alliances being what they are, the savvy higher office candidate could well be seen by winning office holders and their entire teams in several communities, as an asset.
Knowing the locals who serve the behind the counter in countless coffee shops, or as youth sports coaches, and so forth can't possibly hurt either.
The candidate that gave so willingly of his time and efforts one year will be remembered the next by the very people that will delegates then.
Town Committee Contributions
The prospective candidates would go from town committee to town committee not solely to deliver their intra-party stump speech, but to learn of other candidates running for local office that year, and would lend them whatever celebrity they might possess as well as other intangible assets they might have acquired to help those locals win their respective races.
It made sense, it's better to have a few Selectmen or Town Council members in your corner than not. Besides, successful local campaigns are rarely won alone, and political alliances being what they are, the savvy higher office candidate could well be seen by winning office holders and their entire teams in several communities, as an asset.
Knowing the locals who serve the behind the counter in countless coffee shops, or as youth sports coaches, and so forth can't possibly hurt either.
Then the folks with the big checkbooks arrived!
Not inclined to spend the extra time or bother to rub elbows with the unwashed masses, instead of working with "the little people" they seem to have chosen to simply write checks instead.
Here's a run down of the contributions to town committees made by just two candidates lately.
Town Committee Contributions
R. Nelson (Oz) Griebel
on Saturday, May 8, 2010
Simsbury resident Oz Griebel claims he can work with both parties and it's probably true.
Not a budget hawk.
Griebel is for example the only Republican in the race willing to consider the reimplimintation of highway tolls; and appears open to other avenues of revenue enhancement as well.
Not a Republican.
Grieble's habitually contributed generously to Democrats; in fact since 2006 he's donated almost twice as much to them as he has to what he claims is own party.
The Odd Political Contributions of Oz
All data from Opensecrets.org
Black Republicans
on Wednesday, May 5, 2010
32 African-Americans are running for Congress this year as Republicans.
From The New York Times
Party officials and the candidates themselves acknowledge that they still have uphill fights in both the primaries and the general elections, but they say that black Republicans are running with a confidence they have never had before. They credit the marriage of two factors: dissatisfaction with the Obama administration, and the proof, as provided by Mr. Obama, that blacks can get elected.
“I ran in 2008 and raised half a million dollars...” said Allen West, who is running for Congress in Florida. “But we came back and we’re running and things are looking great.”
Princella Smith is running for an open seat in Arkansas.
From The New York Times
Party officials and the candidates themselves acknowledge that they still have uphill fights in both the primaries and the general elections, but they say that black Republicans are running with a confidence they have never had before. They credit the marriage of two factors: dissatisfaction with the Obama administration, and the proof, as provided by Mr. Obama, that blacks can get elected.
“I ran in 2008 and raised half a million dollars...” said Allen West, who is running for Congress in Florida. “But we came back and we’re running and things are looking great.”
Princella Smith is running for an open seat in Arkansas.
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