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• Special Election in Stratford

  Created: Saturday, 30 January 2010 13:02 Author: John Hartwell

  "What?" you say, "The Special Election was that MASSacre where the teabaggers elected one of their own to fill Ted Kennedy's Senate seat!"   Wake up Connecticut! There is a Special Election on March 2nd for State House of Representatives seat fo...

• Obama -- FDR or Carter?

  Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 16:48 Author: John Hartwell

  From Roy Fuchs Let me start with a semi-provocative question:  Is President Obama this generation's FDR or its Jimmy Carter?  Is he too willing to try to see the good in everyone and assume that everyone else sees it and will, of course, seek a...

• Report on our Special Meeting - 1/26/10

  Created: Thursday, 28 January 2010 21:31 Author: John Hartwell

  An emergency meeting of DFA was called to discuss the current disastrous state of our government.  The topics that were paramount for discussion were the Supreme Court decision regarding corporate financing, the election results in Massachusetts, the...

• More Thoughts -- Massachusetts and Supreme Court

  Created: Friday, 22 January 2010 10:36 Author: John Hartwell

  From Kate Tepper.  What do you think?  Add your comment. MASSACHUSETTS MASSACRE So Joe Lieberman and his party of one - along with the every Republican - are advocating that we move more to the political center?  We already did that and w...

• Thoughts on Massachusetts

  Created: Thursday, 21 January 2010 10:56 Author: John Hartwell

  Here are some initial thoughts from four members of our group.  What do you think?  Please add your comments or send me an email and I'll post it.  Thanks. Brian Schwartz The loss of the Massachusetts seat to the Republicans is as much a ...

• Open Letter to Jim Himes on Afghanistan

  Created: Thursday, 07 January 2010 19:36 Author: John Hartwell

  Jim - I will attend your Trumbull event.I am interested in what you learned, clearly.  And having read a couple of books about Afghanistan, I am also interested in a some things that seem to be under- or misreported: The history of the country - ...

• Call Congress on Health Care

  Created: Thursday, 07 January 2010 19:28 Author: John Hartwell

  (from CCAG) Please call your member of Congress right now: thank them for their hard work on health care reform so far and have them tell Speaker Pelosi to keep as much of the House bill intact as possible! CD1 John Larson (202) 225-2265 [DC] - (860) 27...

• Jim Himes Town Halls on Afghanistan

  Created: Tuesday, 05 January 2010 15:17 Author: John Hartwell

  Jim has just returned from a fact-finding trip to Afghanistan and will be holding town hall meetings throughout the district the first week of January: StamfordJanuary 5 at 7:00pm UConn Stamford Auditorium1 University Place, Stamford SouthportJanua...

• Senator Dodd Senior Staffer at DFA on Wednesday

  Created: Monday, 04 January 2010 22:41 Author: John Hartwell

  CANCELED Ryan Drajewicz, senior advisor to Senator Dodd, will join us on Wednesday to discuss the Senate version of healthcare reform which was passed on Christmas Eve and is now headed to Conference with the House.  This is your best opportunity to...