Posted: 8/18/2014 5:04:25 PM EDT
| The Independent Party is having a caucus tomorrow night in Watertown and Foley is going to be there. In exact words what should I ask him regarding our right to bear arms. |
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The Independent Party is having a caucus tomorrow night in Watertown and Foley is going to be there. In exact words what should I ask him regarding our right to bear arms. Ask him nothing about repealing PA 13-3 or guns in general. Instead ask him how he specifically plans to deal with the economic issues including high taxes facing CT. If we want to win this we need to focus on the things that matter to most people which is generally the economy and taxes. Talking about guns and repealing gun laws only plays into the diversion game and that only benefits Malloy. |
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Ask him nothing about repealing PA 13-3 or guns in general. Instead ask him how he specifically plans to deal with the economic issues including high taxes facing CT. If we want to win this we need to focus on the things that matter to most people which is generally the economy and taxes. Talking about guns and repealing gun laws only plays into the diversion game and that only benefits Malloy. Quoted:
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The Independent Party is having a caucus tomorrow night in Watertown and Foley is going to be there. In exact words what should I ask him regarding our right to bear arms. Ask him nothing about repealing PA 13-3 or guns in general. Instead ask him how he specifically plans to deal with the economic issues including high taxes facing CT. If we want to win this we need to focus on the things that matter to most people which is generally the economy and taxes. Talking about guns and repealing gun laws only plays into the diversion game and that only benefits Malloy. 100% this. Most independents in CT fall into 2 classes: those that dont care about 2A and those that are anti 2A. There is no benefit to bringing up guns at this point. We need to win an election and that means winning Independent votes. Ask questions about things that are relevant to them like the economy, jobs, and taxes. |
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Cut the gas tax. We have enough traffic and tolls will only make it worse. How about we cut welfare and all the entitlement programs. Maybe some dead beats will actually go to work. Quoted:
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ask if he want to bring back tolls and drop the darn gas tax! Cut the gas tax. We have enough traffic and tolls will only make it worse. How about we cut welfare and all the entitlement programs. Maybe some dead beats will actually go to work. 
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Cut the gas tax. We have enough traffic and tolls will only make it worse. How about we cut welfare and all the entitlement programs. Maybe some dead beats will actually go to work. Quoted:
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ask if he want to bring back tolls and drop the darn gas tax! Cut the gas tax. We have enough traffic and tolls will only make it worse. How about we cut welfare and all the entitlement programs. Maybe some dead beats will actually go to work. i agree on that too, but i almost get killed every day on these highways in the summer from out of state drivers. might as well get some damn money out of them. i say tolls only on the major highway boarders and also make them electronic only |
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When it comes to the stupid insane taxes on fuel in this state, I'm sure many do not fill up in this state if they can help it. When ever I go out of CT I always fill up prior to coming back because fuel is so damn expensive here.
The way to beat Malloy is to hammer the shit out of him on taxes and the economy. Sure Malloy will claim the economy is getting better, but to most voters they see reality not a bunch of numbers on a piece of paper handed to them by a political lackey yes man. The voters know how expensive things, even the small things, are here in CT. They feel the pain every time they fill up their gas tank, they drive on crumbling roads and highways that are perpetually under construction/repair. The voter knows that he economy sucks here in spite of what Malloy tries to claim. |
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When it comes to the stupid insane taxes on fuel in this state, I'm sure many do not fill up in this state if they can help it. When ever I go out of CT I always fill up prior to coming back because fuel is so damn expensive here. The way to beat Malloy is to hammer the shit out of him on taxes and the economy. Sure Malloy will claim the economy is getting better, but to most voters they see reality not a bunch of numbers on a piece of paper handed to them by a political lackey yes man. The voters know how expensive things, even the small things, are here in CT. They feel the pain every time they fill up their gas tank, they drive on crumbling roads and highways that are perpetually under construction/repair. The voter knows that he economy sucks here in spite of what Malloy tries to claim. exactly most people who drive through this state to get to somewhere else do not stop here. they dont have to. they clog up the roads and pay nothing for it, not even our expensive gas |
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ask if he want to bring back tolls and drop the darn gas tax! Quoted:
ask if he want to bring back tolls and drop the darn gas tax! But...but... Murphy and Blumentholeucalyptus told me that we should raise the gas tax for the good of our country! “We are sick and tired of Congress talking about fixing our transportation funding shortfall and avoiding specifics simply because the solutions are politically uncomfortable,” added Murphy. “Money is not going to fall off trees or sprout out of the ground to fill the funding gap that exists today.”
The Murphy-Corker plan would hike gasoline and diesel taxes by six cents in each of the next two years, for a total increase of 12 cents. That would raise roughly $164 billion over the next decade, filling the highway fund’s revenue shortfall. The plan also would tie the gas tax to inflation, using the Consumer Price Index, to keep the fund in the black. The taxes now stand at 18.4 cents a gallon for gasoline and 24.4 cents per gallon for diesel. Congress hasn’t raised the gas tax since 1993. Ask him why our public utility companies can't seem to subsist on their already exorbitant fees. CL&P wants to do some serious rate hikes this year and our illustrious boatman to hell Malloy has allowed a rate increase for CNG's business customers which essentially doubles the "pleasure of doing business with CNG" charge. |
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Get his thoughts about Branden Sharkey's proposal to tax non profit universities and hospital assets like they do regular businesses.
We have these historically liberal organizations going tax free while they preach how everyone else should be taxed for the better of society. I'm in favor of taxing them equally... especially when you look at their endowments. |
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Seeing as Visconti made the ballot, how much of an impact do you guys think he will make? I think he has the potential to reelect Malloy.  Visconti WILL take potential votes away from Foley. No way to know for sure how many. But if you go by the number of signatures he garnered he as the potential to get at least 7,500 votes. Considering Foley lost by roughly 6,000 votes last time, Visconti could siphon enough votes to push carry Malloy over the top if the election is as close as it was last time. Of course there is no guarantee that someone who would vote for Visconti would vote for Foley if Visconti drops out. Its possible they will not vote at all if Visconti drops out. Those gun owners who don't vote also help Malloy. This election is shaping up to be another very close election. If it is gun owners could be the group that swings the election one way or the other. Edit to add: I'll be very surprised if Visconti decided to drop out at this stage or before the election in November. I think his ego and desire to see it through to the end is driving him to stay in no matter what. I strongly suspect he deep down knows he will not win but is staying in anyhow. |
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Visconti WILL take potential votes away from Foley. No way to know for sure how many. But if you go by the number of signatures he garnered he as the potential to get at least 7,500 votes. Considering Foley lost by roughly 6,000 votes last time, Visconti could siphon enough votes to push carry Malloy over the top if the election is as close as it was last time. Of course there is no guarantee that someone who would vote for Visconti would vote for Foley if Visconti drops out. Its possible they will not vote at all if Visconti drops out. Those gun owners who don't vote also help Malloy. This election is shaping up to be another very close election. If it is gun owners could be the group that swings the election one way or the other. Edit to add: I'll be very surprised if Visconti decided to drop out at this stage or before the election in November. I think his ego and desire to see it through to the end is driving him to stay in no matter what. I strongly suspect he deep down knows he will not win but is staying in anyhow. Quoted:
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Seeing as Visconti made the ballot, how much of an impact do you guys think he will make? I think he has the potential to reelect Malloy. Visconti WILL take potential votes away from Foley. No way to know for sure how many. But if you go by the number of signatures he garnered he as the potential to get at least 7,500 votes. Considering Foley lost by roughly 6,000 votes last time, Visconti could siphon enough votes to push carry Malloy over the top if the election is as close as it was last time. Of course there is no guarantee that someone who would vote for Visconti would vote for Foley if Visconti drops out. Its possible they will not vote at all if Visconti drops out. Those gun owners who don't vote also help Malloy. This election is shaping up to be another very close election. If it is gun owners could be the group that swings the election one way or the other. Edit to add: I'll be very surprised if Visconti decided to drop out at this stage or before the election in November. I think his ego and desire to see it through to the end is driving him to stay in no matter what. I strongly suspect he deep down knows he will not win but is staying in anyhow. Less than 10,000 votes gave us Malloy. Go look how many voted for Mertens in 2010. I agree that this is an ego-trip for Visconti. As usual, voter turnout will make the difference. We still have sad voter turnout. Most potential Foley voters stay home. |
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Visconti WILL take potential votes away from Foley. No way to know for sure how many. But if you go by the number of signatures he garnered he as the potential to get at least 7,500 votes. Considering Foley lost by roughly 6,000 votes last time, Visconti could siphon enough votes to push carry Malloy over the top if the election is as close as it was last time. Of course there is no guarantee that someone who would vote for Visconti would vote for Foley if Visconti drops out. Its possible they will not vote at all if Visconti drops out. Those gun owners who don't vote also help Malloy. This election is shaping up to be another very close election. If it is gun owners could be the group that swings the election one way or the other. Edit to add: I'll be very surprised if Visconti decided to drop out at this stage or before the election in November. I think his ego and desire to see it through to the end is driving him to stay in no matter what. I strongly suspect he deep down knows he will not win but is staying in anyhow. Quoted:
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Seeing as Visconti made the ballot, how much of an impact do you guys think he will make? I think he has the potential to reelect Malloy. Visconti WILL take potential votes away from Foley. No way to know for sure how many. But if you go by the number of signatures he garnered he as the potential to get at least 7,500 votes. Considering Foley lost by roughly 6,000 votes last time, Visconti could siphon enough votes to push carry Malloy over the top if the election is as close as it was last time. Of course there is no guarantee that someone who would vote for Visconti would vote for Foley if Visconti drops out. Its possible they will not vote at all if Visconti drops out. Those gun owners who don't vote also help Malloy. This election is shaping up to be another very close election. If it is gun owners could be the group that swings the election one way or the other. Edit to add: I'll be very surprised if Visconti decided to drop out at this stage or before the election in November. I think his ego and desire to see it through to the end is driving him to stay in no matter what. I strongly suspect he deep down knows he will not win but is staying in anyhow. Visconti becomes a libtard on CT-N and will take away votes from Foley.... http://ct-n.com/ctnplayer.asp?odID=10594 1. Talks against Foley, and against "rich" republicans 2. Economic plans: Raise "corporate" taxes Create pro-rated welfare raises for FSA 
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IMHO Visconti is the direct result from putting a guy like Foley up as our candidate. Foley is just a squishy kind of guy that has little fire-in-the-belly. So, someone like Visconti will surface because he's got enough gumption to get out and beat votes out of the public. If you're a Foley supporter, you've got to be pissed that Visconti is in this election because he will most definitely suck some of the life out of Foley that may sway the election for Malloy to be sure. The only way it won't happen is if Visconti is added to the debate list and he is given the chance to alienate voters with his approach to what ills us here in CT. If he flubs it up he's toast.
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| I guess it all depends on one's priorities. Is it one's priority to get Malloy out of office? Or is it one's priority to get the best candidate (for them) into office? The problem I see with some Visconti supporters is that they are looking at the trees and not the entire forest. Sure Visconti sounds good on guns (well except for his stupid comments about carrying without a round chambered) but to attract the people Visconti needs to win he has to talk about things OTHER than guns. Who ever win's in November will have to attract the independent vote to win. Focusing on guns won't gain that independent vote. |
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I 100% agree with you. You can't go into an election as a one trick pony and expect to win. Even my wife gets tired of me connoting everying around the 2A argument although, let's face it, that subject does define a lot of politicians and the current political scene here in CT. And, yes, I fully understand the desire to at least get someone nominated that has a chance of winning. While I would prefer someone much more robust and "Reagan-eske" I know that finding that person here in CT is pretty unlikely. I also now understand that putting a "firebrand" up there who will spit when he/she talks and gesticulate wildly would alienate the pack of voters that exists in CT. Some states could handle a candidate like that. Here in CT, where the bulk of voters are less "energetic", you need to put someone up who doesn't quite threaten them, I guess. So, Foley does meet that criteria and given the state of the state right now, he does stand a chance of replacing Malloy. I must say, however, that I can't see the attractiveness of being governor, at least not in this current economic climate. And, to make matters more difficult, Foley will really struggle enormously unless he has some help from at least one of the bodies in the legislature. Otherwise he'll be nothing more than a "speedbump" to the Democratically controlled legislature like our last governor. I give her credit for at least doing that because she really had no other power other than the veto pen.
So, Foley it is. I can hold my nose with the best of them. Hell, I may even wear a clothespin on my nose when I go to vote. I'll bet that would make the paper. Rome PS what's your opinion on the chance of the final recommendations from the Newtown commission becoming legislation and passing under Malloy before the election? Think microstamping will go through?? |
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Visconti becomes a libtard on CT-N and will take away votes from Foley.... http://ct-n.com/ctnplayer.asp?odID=10594 1. Talks against Foley, and against "rich" republicans 2. Economic plans: Raise "corporate" taxes Create pro-rated welfare raises for FSA Quoted:
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Seeing as Visconti made the ballot, how much of an impact do you guys think he will make? I think he has the potential to reelect Malloy. Visconti WILL take potential votes away from Foley. No way to know for sure how many. But if you go by the number of signatures he garnered he as the potential to get at least 7,500 votes. Considering Foley lost by roughly 6,000 votes last time, Visconti could siphon enough votes to push carry Malloy over the top if the election is as close as it was last time. Of course there is no guarantee that someone who would vote for Visconti would vote for Foley if Visconti drops out. Its possible they will not vote at all if Visconti drops out. Those gun owners who don't vote also help Malloy. This election is shaping up to be another very close election. If it is gun owners could be the group that swings the election one way or the other. Edit to add: I'll be very surprised if Visconti decided to drop out at this stage or before the election in November. I think his ego and desire to see it through to the end is driving him to stay in no matter what. I strongly suspect he deep down knows he will not win but is staying in anyhow. Visconti becomes a libtard on CT-N and will take away votes from Foley.... http://ct-n.com/ctnplayer.asp?odID=10594 1. Talks against Foley, and against "rich" republicans 2. Economic plans: Raise "corporate" taxes Create pro-rated welfare raises for FSA Holy shit! What a tard |
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PS what's your opinion on the chance of the final recommendations from the Newtown commission becoming legislation and passing under Malloy before the election? Think microstamping will go through?? Don't know. I think most people are getting tired of the whole political reaction to Sandy Hook. If their report comes out with nothing but more "gun control" it is probably going to blow up in the Democrats face. People who take a serious look at the law know that NOTHING recommended by the Sandy Hook Commission would have prevented the shooting/tragity. Microstampoing won't prevent it. Bans on EBR's won't prevent it. People are slowly waking up to the fact that what that commission suggestions are POLITICAL solutions to mental health problems. Foley has a really good chance, if he can articulate effective sound bites, to hammer the shit out of Malloy and the Democrats on stupid ideas like microstamping. Frankly I don't see the Democrats doing anything or really ramping up the anti gun rhetoric until after the November election. Especially if Malloy wins. If Malloy wins I could easily see the usual suspects in the legislature (and Looney) pushing more gun control. Which is why Foley could use such talk about more ineffective laws to contrast himself from Malloy, but its a fine line since most people in this state don't care about guns. |
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Slightly off topic, but where can I buy a Foley 2014 hat or shirt? I didn't see any on his website. Need one in 2 weeks  email his campaign and briefly explain the situation and ask if they can help. I did one better and picked up the phone ten minutes ago 
No apparel in stock at the moment since they are re-branding with the Foley/Somers logo but they are going to see what they can send my way on short notice and give me a call back. 
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Seeing as Visconti made the ballot, how much of an impact do you guys think he will make? I think he has the potential to reelect Malloy. Visconti WILL take potential votes away from Foley. No way to know for sure how many. But if you go by the number of signatures he garnered he as the potential to get at least 7,500 votes. Considering Foley lost by roughly 6,000 votes last time, Visconti could siphon enough votes to push carry Malloy over the top if the election is as close as it was last time. Of course there is no guarantee that someone who would vote for Visconti would vote for Foley if Visconti drops out. Its possible they will not vote at all if Visconti drops out. Those gun owners who don't vote also help Malloy. This election is shaping up to be another very close election. If it is gun owners could be the group that swings the election one way or the other. Edit to add: I'll be very surprised if Visconti decided to drop out at this stage or before the election in November. I think his ego and desire to see it through to the end is driving him to stay in no matter what. I strongly suspect he deep down knows he will not win but is staying in anyhow. Visconti becomes a libtard on CT-N and will take away votes from Foley.... http://ct-n.com/ctnplayer.asp?odID=10594 1. Talks against Foley, and against "rich" republicans 2. Economic plans: Raise "corporate" taxes Create pro-rated welfare raises for FSA Holy shit! What a tard Visconti needs to go away. Sick of this bullshit. I removed myself from every CT gun rights and conservative-esque group on Facebook because I got tired of the same fucking whining mouth breathers peddling the Visconti ballot. Same idiots with shitty grammar, punctuation, capitalization and spelling. VOTE 4. Visconti BECAUSE he Is. The MAN for the jOOb. WHO ELSE do. YOUu know that will FIX the economy and RESTORE the gun rights to the POPULATION!? vote 4 visconti. |