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New Sullivan team gets off to great start

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

More incompetence in the Sullivan campaign. Sullivan’s new team issued a press release accusing Joe Courtney of having failing to take the lead on a recently passed amendment that speeds up funding for submarine construction. The full story is at the link, but Gabe at Connecticut Local Politics sums the release up this way: The […]

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Joe’s convention

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

A few pictures from Joe Courtney’s convention last night, which was, to say the very least, far better attended (and I suspect more enthusiastically) than its Republican counterpart. I wasn’t there, as I was doing my civic duty at the Charter Revision Commission meeting. These pictures were taken by Liz Duarte (Thanks Liz). Okay, the […]

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Solidifying the Second

Friday, May 9, 2008

Via Connecticut Local Politics, the Cook Report confirms what we’ve known for a long time, the Second is no longer in play: The Cook Political Report has changed its rating for Connecticut’s 2nd Congressional District from “Likely Democratic” to “Solid Democratic.” This is stunning, considering that this district saw the closest congressional race in the […]

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Calling Joe Courtney

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Dear Joe: This has gone on long enough. Nothing that happens in the next few weeks is going to change the fundamentals. Obama will go into the convention with more delegates and a higher popular vote than Clinton. She will be able to win only be warping the process and tearing the party apart, effectively […]

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Sullivan trashes Simmons (implicitly in any event)

Friday, April 11, 2008

wtfdnucsailor (who I assume is from Waterford) reports at Connecticut Local Politics that my friend Sean Sullivan has attacked Joe Courtney, who has been in Congress a little over a year, because we are not currently building two subs a year in Groton. As the sailor from Waterford points out: I am not sure what […]

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Joe Courtney does right on FISA

Friday, March 14, 2008

Joe Courtney has been sticking to his guns on the FISA bill, despite the Republican attempts to tar him with their scurrilous ads. This was posted on Kos, but since I know some of my readers don’t frequent many blogs, I’m reposting it here: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_nrZ8cg0bY[/youtube] It’s nice to be able to take pride in your […]

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Not good

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Joe Courtney is trying to raise money in response to the attacks that are being mounted against him on FISA. It’s a good thing to do, since this sort of stuff might stop if the Republicans see it’s a money loser for them. Here’s the link to contribute. Unfortunately, my wife tried twice to contribute […]

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Joe Courtney speaks out on contempt charges

Saturday, November 17, 2007

The Hill reports on the attitude of House freshmen on the Miers/Bolton contempt issue: Despite their skittishness on other signature Democratic issues, most of the Democrats’ “Frontline” members wholeheartedly back sanctions against the White House for rebuffing the House Judiciary Committee in its investigation of the U.S. attorney scandal. “At some point, the process has […]

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Joe votes against trade pact

Friday, November 9, 2007

Congratulations to Joe Courtney for voting against the trade pact with Peru. Joe made a mistake on the Moveon thing, but he’s been pretty solid on almost everything else. It’s pretty safe to conclude that you should be against anything the National Association of Manufacturers is for. Shouldn’t that be the National Association of Corporations […]

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Joe Courtney explains his vote

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

A few weeks ago I expressed my disappointment about Joe Courtney’s vote to condemn Moveon. My wife wrote to his office about it, and today received an email response, which I assume is Joe’s boilerplate response to everyone who wrote. To his credit, he goes to great lengths to establish his anti-war bonafides. But that’s […]

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