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Last night the Greenwich Democratic Town Committee voted overwhelmingly to "publicly censure and repudiate the words and actions of Joe Lieberman and to ask that he resign from the Democratic Party of the state of Connecticut." It also overwhelmingly adopted a resolution criticizing Senate Democrats for not stripping Lieberman of his committee chairmanship. The votes were all the...
My Left Nutmeg - 8:22 p.m.
Personally, I'm tired of hearing the media-hyped bullshit over the "outrage" the progressive blogosphere have with the recent Obama appointments. Thankfully, Ari Melber gave the slapdown to this nonsense as well as called out the "anonymous" source in the politico Lieberman article who claimed that Joementum's pardon solidifies the notion that the anti-Joe movement is a joke. ...
ConnecticutBlog - 8:05 p.m.
Is he in is he out? That the question that comes to mind when I think about Stamford mayor Dan Malloy and the 2010 governor's race. Although Malloy gave very clear indications earlier this year that he intends on running for the state's highest office again, after watching his reaction to Attorney General Richard Blumenthal hinting on running ( again ), I guess we'll have to wait and see on what ...
ConnecticutBlog - 3:31 p.m. - 5 clicks 
Last night the Greenwich Democratic Town Committee voted overwhelmingly to "publicly censure and repudiate the words and actions of Joe Lieberman and to ask that he resign from the Democratic Party of the state of Connecticut." The resolution instructs our representatives to the state central committee to vote for the same resolution when it comes up for a vote at the next meetin...
DailyKos (Connecticut) - 1:27 p.m. - 10 clicks
This afternoon, State Rep. Jason Bartlett did an interview on CNN in which he discussed the issue of gay rights and it's complexity in the African-American community. With backlash in Connecticut and across the country against California's passage of the anti-gay Proposition 8, Connecticut recognizing gay marriage, Rep. Bartlett gave his perspective on being a African-American homosexual and...
Hat City - Thu 7:49 p.m. - 13 clicks
Finding his way around the Capitol, meeting other Congressmen, eager to get things done. UPDATE: From the Hartford Courant: [Himes] lands in Congress with an advantage over some other freshmen: His state's delegation includes Rep. John Larson, the newly elected chairman of the Democratic caucus, and Rep. Rosa DeLauro, co-chairwoman of the group that gives committee assignments....
My Left Nutmeg - Thu 7:22 p.m.
I know that there used to be a billboard that read: “Come to Hartford. I swear, it’s fun,” but that should not have been interpreted as “bring your addictions and/or desire to be part of the street economy.” While there have been other non-residents arrested for various crimes, here are some of the latest who [...]...
Real Hartford - Thu 1:28 p.m. - 13 clicks
Here's what's happening today: As state legislators prepare for next week's special session, information on the state's financial condition is a bit discouraging. Rep. John Larson was elected the head of the Democratic Caucus Shelton Mayor Mark Lauretti could be in a bit of trouble. Unions aren't very happy with Gov. Rell. Lieberman's former mouthpiece DANGERstein h...
My Left Nutmeg - Thu 12:22 p.m. - 11 clicks
By DAN MALLOY Earlier this week, in a speech to the Connecticut Association of Non-Profits Annual Conference, I called on Governor Rell and the Connecticut Legislature to ensure Connecticut’s human services “safety net” is intact, properly funded and prepared to deal with the growing demand for services during these difficult economic times. The State should refrain from [...]...
DanMalloy.com - Thu 9:43 a.m. - 17 clicks
You're kidding me right? Joe Lieberman will never step out of line again, that's for sure," said one senior Democratic senator. In honor of this laughable statement... (h/t to you know who for catching this money quote and for the video response) UPDATE: Well, that didn't take long... Critics complain he got off with a "slap on the wrist," but Sen. Joseph I. Lieberma...
My Left Nutmeg - Wed 2:02 p.m. - 14 clicks
Racism reared it's ugly head once again as police at Western Connecticut State University are investigating who drew two swastikas on campus. Fox61 and WTNH both filed reports on the incident. University President James W. Schmotter issued the following statement. "This symbol of hate has no place on our campus. Those responsible for these cowardly actions either hold ...
Hat City - Wed 2:02 p.m. - 12 clicks
Answer Coalition of Connecticut member Chris Garaffa spoke in support of gay marriage at New Haven's rally against California's Prop 8. Last Saturday, thousands upon thousands of activists gathered in cities across the country to show their support for those in California who oppose the state's Proposition 8 referendum, which overturns the recent court decision to allow gay marriage. I ...
My Left Nutmeg - Wed 11:03 a.m. - 12 clicks
Although the senate Democrats kissed and made up with Lieberman, people in Connecticut are enraged and want John McCain's best friend to be punished. Two members of Connecticut's Democratic state central committee, Audrey Blondin and Myrna Watanabe, said they'll still ask Connecticut's top Democrats to consider a resolution repudiating Lieberman for publicly backing McCain. It also...
My Left Nutmeg - Wed 9:20 a.m. - 13 clicks
Clarence W. Corbin, the Director of Hartford Public Works, and Marilynn Cruz-Aponte, Assistant to the Director of Public Works, spoke to residents as part of the Understanding City Services workshop series tonight at the Hartford Public Library. Corbin mainly covered the single-stream recycling pilot program, while Cruz-Aponte dealt with the proposed Hartford Bulky Waste & [...]...
Real Hartford - Wed 5:43 a.m. - 8 clicks
Given the screw-job the senate Democrats did to everyone who voted for change by their sucking up to Joe Lieberman , it was refreshing to see the person I voted for in 2006 on the airwaves today... ...
ConnecticutBlog - Wed 12:11 a.m. - 21 clicks
Vile Ct. Senator Joe Lieberman makes me physically ill but I support keeping him on our side for now, and only until he screws up again, which won't be long. Here's why... ...
DailyKos (Connecticut) - Tue 10:46 p.m. - 15 clicks
No, not the scumbag career politicians above. These guys: On the other side were senators who feel that one requirement to be installed in a leadership position is party loyalty. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Pat Leahy, D-Vt., and Senator-elect Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., spoke against allowing Lieberman keep the Homeland Security and Government Affairs post. Reid, Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and ...
My Left Nutmeg - Tue 12:09 p.m. - 22 clicks
In their first major decision since the election the Senate Democrats led by Harry Reid tell everyone to go eat a shit sandwich. Senator Harry Reid just spoke to reporters after the private caucus meeting with Dems over Joe Lieberman's fate, and he confirmed it: Lieberman will not be stripped of his Homeland Security chairmanship, because the "vast majority" of the Democratic caucus wa...
My Left Nutmeg - Tue 10:24 a.m. - 15 clicks
A Democratic senator says Democrats are letting Sen. Joe Lieberman keep his prized chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee despite supporting Republican John McCain for president. Sen. Tom Harkin said the verdict came in a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill. ...
My Left Nutmeg - Tue 9:23 a.m. - 15 clicks
Tonight Drop by the Hartford Public Library (5:30 for refreshments, 6 for the talk) for a program on the Department of Public Works. “Learn about the new Transfer Center and Single-Stream Recycling. Bring your questions about leaf collection, street repair, snow removal, garbage collection…” I know you can’t contain your excitement over this, but [...]...
Real Hartford - Tue 5:07 a.m. - 7 clicks
Chris Hayes of The Nation makes the analogy on MSNBC's Countdown tonight that the Senate Democrats are getting ready to bailout Joe Lieberman instead of meting out any significant punishment. ...
My Left Nutmeg - Mon 7:26 p.m. - 10 clicks
If we ignore the Hartford Courant and their regurgitated opinion pieces that lack any research, will they quietly implode? Can we speed up their implosion process? The newspaper has become an embarrassing source that many people, unfortunately, still rely on for information. ...
Real Hartford - Mon 6:30 p.m. - 8 clicks
Another centrist Democrat thinks Lieberman should be taken to the woodshed in some fashion. From The Hill : Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), a close ally of Sen. Joe Lieberman, said the Connecticut Independent should pay a price for his campaign attacks against President-elect Barack Obama. "There need to be consequences, and they cannot be insignificant," Carper said in a Monday interview with ...
My Left Nutmeg - Mon 3:26 p.m. - 10 clicks
Let this be a reminder on the importance of being politically active in your community and why speaking out at your local Democratic Town Committee meetings can make a difference. This cross post is from HatCityBLOG Now that the elections are over, the members of State Central will be forced once again to address the proposed resolution to censure Joe Lieberman. As you know, the issue of slap...
My Left Nutmeg - Mon 3:26 p.m. - 11 clicks
Hark! More fine examples of racist comments in the News-Times for me to hand over to the Southern Poverty Law Center. ...Danbury's xenophobia up close in personal. killallspics Immigrants are ANIMALS. And they STINK. We need to start lynching them just like we did to the coons back in the day. That'll teach these dirty munkeys to stay out of Connecticut. [...] fopdan Naygers...
Hat City - Mon 2:46 p.m. - 19 clicks
Let this be a reminder on the importance of being politically active in your community and why speaking out at your local Democratic Town Committee meetings can make a difference. Now that the elections are over, the members of State Central will be forced once again to address the proposed resolution to censure Joe Lieberman. As you know, the issue of slapping Joe on his wrist was tabled by St...
Hat City - Mon 12:28 p.m. - 11 clicks
Can you imagine a scenario any more horrible than that? Well it almost happened, most of us think it should have happened (in a round about way). Below the fold I examine the impact of what would have happened if this had taken place. Read on... ...
DailyKos (Connecticut) - Sat 8:48 p.m. - 21 clicks
Via Joe Peltier from the Quinnipiac Times, a few students got stupid : A third arrest has been made surrounding the hate speech incidents that have occurred on the Quinnipiac campus, according to associate vice president for public relations John Morgan. Freshman Charles Merritt of Clifton, Maine was arrested today in connection with the hate speech, and is currently being held by the Hamden...
Drinking Liberally in New Milford - Fri 11:43 p.m. - 18 clicks
Only because if I still lived there I would not have a Neoconservative piece of Lieberjunk as a Senator : Today, Daily Kos diarist terjeanderson caught an interview on Vermont Public Radio with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT), during which the senator broke from the pack and said that Lieberman deserved to lose his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security and Go...
Drinking Liberally in New Milford - Nov 14 - 22 clicks
Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 11/11-13. Likely voters. MoE 4% ( 6/30-7/2 results) Do you approve or disapprove of the job Joe Lieberman is doing as U.S. senator? Approve 36 (45) Disapprove 61 (43) If the 2012 election for U.S. Senate were held today would you to reelect Joe Lieberman would you consider voting for another candidate or would you vote to replace Lieberman? ...
DailyKos (Connecticut) - Nov 14 - 22 clicks
Election day totals from Danbury's 3rd ward (Broadview School) were picked at random from the Sec. of State's office to be audited. Photo by CTBlogger In ensure the integrity of last week's voting, the Secretary of State's office just announced that Danbury's 3rd ward's (Broadview School) votes will be audited. Here's the statement from the SoS office: Secretary of the State Su...
Hat City - Nov 13 - 8 clicks
Although this wasn't a far stretch, a week before the election, while a guest on the local access show Ideas at Work and Beyond, I had this to say about the 4th CD race between Jim Himes and Chris Shays... Now that the election is over, the Fairfield Weekly did a piece on the voter turnout (particularly Bridgeport) that supports exactly what I predicted. In total, Himes defeated S...
Hat City - Nov 12 - 11 clicks
Again, good luck to those of you that choose to go out and start the rest of your lives together while exercising your newly minted rights to marriage equality : Today, Connecticut joins Massachusetts as the only states to allow same-sex couples to marry. This comes one week after California voters banned gay marriage. WNPR's Lucy Nalpathanchil spoke to two couples who've been waiting a l...
Drinking Liberally in New Milford - Nov 12 - 12 clicks
Now I'm looking for the correct bird simile for Shays. It can't be the dodo, that gawky, waddling, flightless, 40-pound joke of an animal that was killed off by the late 1600s on their Indian Ocean island. Shays' defenses -- particularly in recent years as the demographics of the 4th Congressional District were changing -- were always formidable, and the 17-town district was surgically redrawn...
Drinking Liberally in New Milford - Nov 11 - 7 clicks
By DAN MALLOY On this Veteran’s Day, we pause to honor the men and women who made enormous sacrifices for our country and to pay tribute to the brave men and women who tirelessly and selflessly serve overseas. We pray for their well being as they give of themselves on behalf of their families and friends at home. [...]...
DanMalloy.com - Nov 11 - 8 clicks
It's real simple...Lieberman needs to be shown the door and the sooner the better. Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films have been leading the charge regarding placing pressure on the members of the senate to strip Lieberman of his chairman post of the Homeland Security Committee. Today, a new video was launched to serve as a reminder of what Lieberman has done to the Democratic Party and Barack...
Hat City - Nov 11 - 4 clicks
In Mike McLachlan's quest to be a one term state senator, the man whose claim to fame includes videotaping Mayor Boughton's every move , as well as allegedly having an very interesting relationship with the Danbury Fire department as a youth has really gone over the deep end. It seems like Boughton's short-tempered hitman has placed a "Thank You" addition to his large and annoying campaign lawn...
Hat City - Nov 10 - 9 clicks
NOTE: This broadcast of Danbury Live centers around the ad-hoc ocmmittee meeting on Pocono Lane land exchange. I attended and video taped the public hearing on Pocono Lane that followed the ad-hoc committee meeting...which can be viewed by clicking here. ...
Hat City - Nov 10 - 8 clicks
Via Steve Benen at the Washington Monthly , It is the biggest reason that traitor Joe must go from the Homeland Security Committee: Let's cut the nonsense. Reid offered Lieberman a chance to stay in the Democratic caucus, keep his seniority, and become the chairman of some other committee. Lieberman thinks that's " unacceptable " and reportedly " begged " to stay on as chairman of Senate...
Drinking Liberally in New Milford - Nov 8 - 12 clicks
(New Britain, CT) – In life, Jacob Marley worked in a counting house, where he made a great deal of money. Upon his death, Marley enters a Counting House of a different sort, where all of his earthly credits have turned to debits. Chained and shackled by a lifetime of greed and pettiness, Marley has just one chance to escape a hellish eternity: he must redeem his old partner, Ebenezer Scroo...
New Britain Community News - Nov 7 - 9 clicks
As a footnote to his win over Chris Shays, Congressman-Elect Jim Himes becomes the first Peruvian-American to win a seat for U.S. Congress. ...and his win is receiving quite of bit of attention in Latin American and around the world. Democrat Jim Himes has become the first Peruvian-American citizen in winning a seat in the U.S. Congress for Connecticut's 4th District during the recent elect...
Hat City - Nov 7 - 11 clicks
Congressman Murphy and State Rep. Jason Bartlett meet with residents after this election victories. JKs Restaurant 11.06.08 Photo by CTBlogger Fresh from his victory over David Cappiello, Congressman Chris Murphy visited his adopted home of JKs Restaurant to say thanks to the residents of Danbury who sent him back to Washington for a second term. Accompanying him was another freshman ...
Hat City - Nov 7 - 9 clicks
This is it. The time is now. Joe needs to go. Despite his pledge during the 2006 debates to do everything he could to get a Democrat in the White House in 2008, Lieberman went back on his word. Despite his glowing comments about Barack Obama back in 2006, and his pledge not to say anything negative about Obama at the Republican National Convention, Lieberman went back on his w...
Hat City - Nov 7 - 12 clicks
By DAN MALLOY There is a lot of talk about “Main Street” these days in the context of the current financial disaster. And while there is disagreement on what to do next, there seems to be near consensus on one point — the impact of this monumental financial crisis will settle most deeply in the cities [...]...
DanMalloy.com - Nov 7 - 12 clicks
This is it. The time is now. Joe needs to go. Despite his pledge during the 2006 debates to do everything he could to get a Democrat in the White House in 2008, Lieberman went back on his word. Despite his glowing comments about Barack Obama back in 2006, and his pledge not to say anything negative about Obama at the Republican National Convention, Lieberman went back on his w...
ConnecticutBlog - Nov 7 - 9 clicks
Via Roll Call , with Rahm Emanuel going to President elect Obama's side at the White House there could be a lot of jockeying for positioning down the line : So far, the race for Caucus chairman is a two-way matchup pitting Vice Chairman John Larson (Conn.) against Rep. Chris Van Hollen (Md.), who engineered the 20-seat gain as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Van Ho...
Drinking Liberally in New Milford - Nov 6 - 11 clicks
By MICHAEL K. NORRIS I got to stand in a crowded room last night and watch Dan Malloy announce that Chris Shays had just conceded to Jim Himes. That felt good. Jim will make a great Congressman. I also watched an overwhelming majority of voters defeat the divisive question on the ballot and shout “NO!” to a Constitutional [...]...
DanMalloy.com - Nov 6 - 11 clicks
Previously brewed in New Milford : Help Wanted: Prestigious Senate Career Opportunity A prestigious opportunity for career advancement in the Senate: The Democratic party is in search of a new Chairman (or chairwoman/chairperson) for the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Moderate Senators need only apply. (1) The Chairman's responsibilities and Jurisdictions ...
Drinking Liberally in New Milford - Nov 5 - 9 clicks
