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Drinking Liberally: A report

Friday, February 8, 2008

Our second Drinking Liberally went well last night. It was held at the Bulkeley House in New London, in the “Ice House”, which we liberals had all to ourselves. A few pictures, starting with a look at the facilities prior to the start of the festivities: A couple of crowd shots: A not so crowded […]

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Something happening here

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

It has been much remarked in the blogosphere, though not so much in the mainstream media, that turnout among Democrats has been extra high this year. A case in point is our fair town of Groton, where the votes cast for the top candidates are as follows. (All figures courtesy of the Courant, Dems here, […]

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Reminder: Drinking Liberally Thursday night

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Light blogging tonight. I am watching/listening to the returns on Brave New Films, where they do the heavy lifting of watching CNN for me, report the results, and reinforce all my preconceptions. What more could you ask? Now’s a good time to remind everyone that Thursday night is the second meeting of the Southeastern Connecticut […]

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Your point being?

Saturday, February 2, 2008

I read this article in this morning’s Day (Killer had been living in Hartford) from beginning to end this morning, my puzzlement mounting. The thrust of it is that a person was convicted of murder here in Connecticut, served his sentence, was released, successfully completed a term of probation (five years), and then legally moved […]

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A missive from Walter Kerr

Friday, February 1, 2008

We Grotonites fondly remember Walter Kerr, who was Joe Courtney’s field co-ordinator here in our area. Walter worked out of our Groton headquarters. He was able to extract maximum effort out of the motley crew that is the Groton Democrats. We didn’t win Groton, but we narrowed Simmons previous margins enough to be able to […]

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Groton Dems pass resolution-but this is really yet another rant about the spineless Dems

Saturday, January 26, 2008

I am proud to report that on Thursday our Groton Democratic Town Committee passed a resolution calling on our state legislators to require a special election in the case of a Senatorial vacancy. Based on the feedback we’ve gotten from some of those legislators there is no chance that our veto proof majority will pass […]

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Choosing delegates

Thursday, January 24, 2008

A recent commentor asks about the way in which delegates are apportioned in the primaries. I did some digging, and here’s what I found. Start with state law: Sec. 9-473. Notification by party chairmen of delegates allotted. Not later than the fourteenth day before the day of the primary, the chairman of each party shall […]

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Music to drink (liberally) by

Friday, January 18, 2008

The next meeting of our nascent Drinking Liberally chapter (am I using “nascent” correctly? My dictionary says “yes”, but barely, so I leave it to my resident etymologists to decide) will meet at the Ice House Pub at the Bulkeley House at 111 Bank Street in New London on February 7 at 6:30 PM. We […]

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Brief report from the Charter Revision Commission

Monday, January 14, 2008

I spent the evening at a Charter Revision Commission meeting, tinkering with the fundamental law of Groton. The process starts to get interesting from here on in; the basic work is done, and now we turn to the issue of the referendum. Groton is well, if unimaginatively governed. We have relatively low taxes. We have […]

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Democracy in Groton

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Here we are, awaiting the New Hampshire results, after participating in direct democracy here in Groton. Some people may not have been aware that there were caucuses in Groton tonight. For reasons readily apparent, they did not get nearly the attention of the Iowa caucuses. In any event, the results are in, and a new […]

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