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 problem (aside from getting the date wrong, really, how hard is that)? None of the Sullivan release is accurate! And I actually mean none of it (date included, sorry, I couldn’t resist). The amendment is called the Hunter-Courtney amendment. And Courtney’s amendment bailed out a previous version that was sure to fail. Rep. Courtney is the best kind of politician – the kind that gets things done. Oh, and he can send out a press release that has a passing relation to reality
All the gory details at the link above. Sullivan’s only real hope for victory was that Joe would fail to deliver on new submarines. He could then have trumpeted his submarine credentials. Joe has cut off that line of attack, but maybe it’s still all they’ve got, so they are going to use it anyway. The problem with that kind of issue is that the people who care about it actually know the facts, independently of what candidates have to say. You can’t snooker them. And, as to the people who don’t know the facts: they don’t really care about the issue.
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