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Campaign Notebook: McMahon Changes Image to Win Voters

News and updates from the campaign trail in Connecticut.

Second District

Paul Formica (R) wants to give supporters his campaign signs.

Fifth District

The Record-Journal continues looking at the differences – and similarities – between Elizabeth Esty and Andrew Roraback in the Fifth District. The newspaper compares the candidates on energy issues, from fracking to investing federal dollars in alternative energy.


Senate

The Associated Press took a look at the closely-contested race for Senate and finds that Linda McMahon’s attempts to change her image from that of a “groin-kicking CEO to grandmother” have been paying off.

Chris Murphy, her opponent, said that voters need to be reminded why they voting against her in her failed 2010 Senate bid.

Third District

Rosa DeLauro (D): After a report discovered arsenic in rice products, several lawmakers – including DeLauro – are pitching a bill to set federal guidelines for legal limits of the chemical, reports The Huffington Post.

Wayne Winsley (R) posted on Facebook that he had a radio interview on Bill Bennett’s Morning in America, a conservative program.

Fourth District

Jim Himes and Steve Obsitnik are scheduled to debate several times in October, with debates planned on Oct. 10 in Stamford, Oct. 18 in Norwalk and Oct. 28 in Wilton.

The Wilton debate is being organized by a dozen local chapters of the League of Women Voters and is scheduled for 4-5:30 p.m. at Wilton High School.

“The Leagues of Southwestern Connecticut—the 4th Congressional District—have joined forces to present a centrally-located forum for area residents to learn the candidates’ positions on national and local issues, particularly those impacting our region,” said debate facilitator Jara Burnett of LWV Greenwich.

The questions at the debate will be solicited from the audience and League members.

 

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Final Judgment May 13, 2013 at 01:40 pm
And I don't suppose the low rate of male participation in the labor market (a bit of info I missedRead More somehow) has anything to do with a RISE in female participation? You aren't suggesting that women just stay home and out of the jobs that somehow "belong" to men, are you?
Final Judgment May 13, 2013 at 01:35 pm
Touchy, touchy! All I asked was how MAC compared the two apparent misstatements. My guess was thatRead More the obvious disrespect that was shown by the way he refers to the President was a hint that he was a biased commentator. His defenders have called me a lib, but most folks who know me wouldn't call me that at all. I was hoping for some "fair and balanced" discussion here, but the name-callers have arrived. I ask MAC to provided some reference to support his latest pronouncement that the President "wants to destroy our economy." There are a lot of commentators who would disagree with your assessment of the economy anyway, but when did the President say he "wants to destroy our economy?"
MAC May 13, 2013 at 12:00 pm
We now have a president who wants to destroy our economy and most all of what made America theRead More (formerly?) greatest and most FREE nation in the world! He has done a fair job of accomplishing that destruction, has he not? The male labor participation rate is now the lowest since WWII, and energy costs have "necessarily skyrocketed" as he demanded!! Then we have "Common Core" and the like for the nation's schools, under which the regime denies the Constitution and instead teaches "social justice" and that America is responsible for the poverty in other nations!