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Boughton may be running for Governor

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Danbury blog The Hat City Blog reports that Mayor Mark Boughton will indeed run for Governor. This is based on their review of Internet records revealing that Boughton or someone representing him registered the domain name BoughtonForCT.com on Wednesday, January 20th. It’s claimed that Boughton has little name recognition outside of the Danbury area but people in his neck of the woods know him as a social media maven who is actively blogging, tweeting, and Facebooking on topics such as whether the Beatles or the Stones are better. With his geniality and record of fiscal success in Danbury, we think “Mayor Mark” would prove to be a formidable candidate.

Connecticut Senate race generates nationwide interest

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And according to Rasmussen, Senator Dodd would lose to every Republican, even Peter Schiff, whose financial media stardom hasn’t resulted in any name recognition in Nutmegland.

Former GOP Congressman Rob Simmons is still his toughest opponent, leading Dodd 48% to 35%. Seven percent (7%) prefer some other candidate in this contest, and 11% are undecided. Those figures are a slight improvement for Simmons since September.

The newest Republican in the race, Linda McMahon, the ex-CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, earns 44% of the vote to Dodd’s 38%. Eight percent (8%) opt for another candidate, with nine percent (9%) not sure.

Long-shot candidate Peter Shiff, the widely-known president of Euro Pacific Capital, is essentially even with Dodd and holds a one-point edge, 40% to 39%. In their race, eight percent (8%) like some other candidate, and 14% are undecided.

More interesting stuff here.

Farewell to a number of things…

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IN his column today, The Courant’s Rick Green says farewell to the old economy, complete with a scary graphic showing that Connecticut has lost over 15,000 manufacturing jobs in the last year.  And then Mr. Green wonders if anyone is listening.

Actually, considering his appearance on the panel with Peter Schiff on Face The State, I find this highly ironic. (Watch the exchange that starts at about 3:00.) Hasn’t Schiff been the one saying that we’ve stupidly, deliberately exported our manufacturing base to Asia? I love watching people throw the accepted wisdom at Schiff.

With apologies to Mr. Green, having lost over 70,000 jobs in a year, I think we’re saying farewell not just to the old economy, but to our ability to pay for the welfare state we have constructed.

Connecticut election results show broad dissatisfaction

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Republican candidates prevailed in most major races yesterday and, as Vincent at Connecticut Local Politics points out, Connecticut exemplified the trend better than anywhere.

Like New Jersey, we are a deeply blue state, so to see the GOP win in places like Stamford and Norwich and Stratford shows that something major was going on last night. (The only town that completely bucked the trend was West Hartford. Come on folks, get with it.)

What happened was a revolt against overspending. The GOP runs best in the Northeast when it sticks to three issues — taxes, limited government, and crime. In this economic climate, the party pounded the financial management issue, blaming Democratic mayors and councils for overspending during a recession. It clearly resonated. For example, in my hometown of Fairfield, the RTM swung from 27-23 Democratic to 38-12 Republican, and the GOP won almost all the open board seats (finance, education) as well….

Sure, we are a blue state, and so is New Jersey. But just because we are Democrats doesn’t mean that we like seeing the government nationalize the auto industry, or take over the health care industry. Nutmeggers remain New Englanders, who believe in private enterprise, personal responsibility and thrift. Watching the government triple the deficit and have little to show for it (except for make-work featherbedding like the torn-up-for-no-reason Merritt Parkway) drives people of our mindset nuts.

I think this is sound analysis. It’s become far too easy to make bogeymen out of Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh – as if there were nothing at all a rational person could find troubling about that tripled deficit.

Connecticut incumbents looking at tough road next year

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The Courant’s Rick Green opines that incumbents like Mr. Dodd and Mrs. Rell are in trouble as unemployment here will hit 10% in 2010. Quoting Mrs. Rell’s top economic advisor:

Delinquency rates on single-family mortgages have risen four-fold since 2006, and consumers are spending less and saving more given overall economic uncertainty. This means continued pressure on state sales and use taxes, incomes taxes, and corporate income taxes, your three big generators of state tax revenue. Bottom line conclusion: I highly doubt that our state budget problems have been resolved, only delayed and postponed.

Read the rest here.

Election season coming early. Actually, it never ends anymore.

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Here’s Congressman Pete Stark of California having another hard day, telling a constituent (at about 1:35) that he wouldn’t dignify him by peeing on his leg because it would be a waste of urine.

I’m not kidding.

It seems that the political pressures of the summer are causing everyone’s true colors to come out.

Oh well, closer to home, Capitol Watch is reporting that Rob Simmons is ahead of Senator Dodd, 46% – 42%.

Also, financial pundit Peter Schiff has a new political director and announced on Twitter (among other places, I imagine) whether he will run for Senate from Connecticut on Thursday morning’s Morning Joe show on MSNBC.

Dutch Sheets and the election

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Popular author and teacher Dutch Sheets is one of the best-known proponents of governmental intercession in the US and, along with others such as Cindy Jacobs and Lou Engle helped popularize and promote spiritual warfare concepts in the 90′s and the beginning of this century. So I was interested to see Sheets’s take on the election of Mr. Obama. Sheets definitely places himself among those who believe it is great for America to have a black President – just not this particular black President. America, he believes, is being seduced and faces judgment – following the error of the Israelites who begged Samuel for a king.  Sheets says:

I have heard the argument that God cares as much about social justice issues (such as poverty and racism) as He does abortion, making a vote for Obama OK. I certainly believe God puts a very high priority on caring for the poor and I, too, have wanted to see equality demonstrated through a “minority” president. But to equate having a better income or the desire for a first black president, regardless of his positions on abortion and morality, to the issue of killing 50 million babies is not justice-it is a gross distortion of justice and great deception. I fear that we have been desensitized to this issue of abortion. I believe it kills babies and takes innocent life. I also believe it is blood sacrifice that empowers demons. Let’s not forget this in our noble attempts to be kind and conciliatory.

For African Americans I can easily see how it could bring healing to have a first black president, just as it would be for Native Americans to achieve this or for women if a woman were elected president. Again, I have wanted to see justice in this way. I am only saddened that the price for this healing ended up being Barak Obama [sic], a man that will set the cause of life and, most-likely, our God-given destiny as a nation back so drastically. (I also realize there are some who interpret any criticism of Obama as racism. Racism is so NOT what I am about nor what I live, that I will not even dignify any such accusations with a response.)

What does Sheets think we can expect as a result?

• More economic woes
• More violence in an already violent nation
• Disease and death (satan, who is responsible for these things will have greater inroads to our nation.)
• Natural disasters (weather-tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, drought; fires; earthquakes; etc.)
• Terrorism (they will fear us much less now)
• War, perhaps on our own soil
• Judgments relating to the Court. The stacking of the Supreme Court against the sanctity of life and God’s influence on America will occur, which will in turn cause the shedding of more innocent blood, more rejection of God’s laws and the stealing from us of our godly heritage-all of which will perpetuate a cycle of even more judgment.

You can read the whole thing here.

Obama and the Evangelicals

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How many did he really reach? Not as many as one might have thought in the months leading up to November 4.  Says Time:

And yet despite the inroads Obama made with religious constituencies, there is one voting bloc that remains largely unmoved by Obamamania: white Evangelicals. One-quarter of them voted for Obama on Tuesday — despite a warning from conservative columnist Janet Porter that they could be risking their eternal souls by doing so — an improvement on John Kerry’s dismal showing in 2004. But against a candidate like McCain, who is famously disliked by many Evangelicals, in a campaign in which Democrats engaged in a record level of outreach to Evangelicals, and at a time when the Evangelical community is expanding its consciousness to focus on traditionally Democratic issues like the environment and poverty, this would have been the year for a real shift of support to take place. So why didn’t that happen?

Interesting stuff – see more here.