Ironweed
11-01-2004, 05:43 PM
http://www.sots.state.ct.us/ElectionsDivision/ElectResults/2004_Nov/2004CandidateList.pdf
PRESIDENT - CC Michael A. Peroutka
UNITED STATES SENATOR - D - Chris Dodd
Congressional - R Rob Simmons(1)
State Senate - R Michael T. Fitzpatrick(2)
State Rep - R - Pamela Z. Sawyer(3)
(1) - The only vote I'm going to cast that actually matters. Dodd is going to win easily in CT, ditto Kerry. In the Simmons/Sullivan congressional race, however, they're currently showing the incumbent (Simmons) with only a 2% lead. Would not surprise me one bit to see this district go Democrat. There's even talk that this race is important for the Republicans to retain control of the House. We shall see.
My wife is going to go Sullivan, so I guess we'll cancel each other out. :p Can't say I blame her, either. Some Republican genius started a really nasty smear campaign on Sullivan...one that appears to have boomeranged back onto their man. This will cost Simmons my wife's vote. (She went for him in '00 and '02.) I thought about it, but believe Simmons' proclamations of innocence.
(2) - Embarassingly, I'm not 100% sure this is my district. They keep screwing around with the boundaries on this for some reason. However, his opponent (Mary Ann Handley) is truly an idiot. Getting that broad out of Hartford would be a blessing. May this be the time she loses. (She brought her poodle into the state house and let it do its business in a conference room. Then left it without even trying to clean it up. :rolleyes: I don't think we need that.)
(3) - She's an acquaintance of my wife's. Seems like a nice lady, so I'll vote for her again.
I think this will be the most votes I've ever cast for Republicans.
Oddly, I remain a registered Democrat...mostly to be able to participate in the party primaries.
I seem to have come a long way from the first votes I ever cast...for Barney Frank and either Ted Kennedy or Paul Tsongas in 1982 (Can't actually remember). Frank wasn't openly gay then, he even got the endorsement of the guy he was replacing, Father Robert Drinan. Fr. Drinan had to give up his position when the Pope said nobody in religious life could hold government office.
Someday I should post my reminiscenses of knocking on doors for Walter Mondale in 1984, getting yelled at by Jesse Jackson, and the truly odd people in the "People for Cranston" campaign.
PRESIDENT - CC Michael A. Peroutka
UNITED STATES SENATOR - D - Chris Dodd
Congressional - R Rob Simmons(1)
State Senate - R Michael T. Fitzpatrick(2)
State Rep - R - Pamela Z. Sawyer(3)
(1) - The only vote I'm going to cast that actually matters. Dodd is going to win easily in CT, ditto Kerry. In the Simmons/Sullivan congressional race, however, they're currently showing the incumbent (Simmons) with only a 2% lead. Would not surprise me one bit to see this district go Democrat. There's even talk that this race is important for the Republicans to retain control of the House. We shall see.
My wife is going to go Sullivan, so I guess we'll cancel each other out. :p Can't say I blame her, either. Some Republican genius started a really nasty smear campaign on Sullivan...one that appears to have boomeranged back onto their man. This will cost Simmons my wife's vote. (She went for him in '00 and '02.) I thought about it, but believe Simmons' proclamations of innocence.
(2) - Embarassingly, I'm not 100% sure this is my district. They keep screwing around with the boundaries on this for some reason. However, his opponent (Mary Ann Handley) is truly an idiot. Getting that broad out of Hartford would be a blessing. May this be the time she loses. (She brought her poodle into the state house and let it do its business in a conference room. Then left it without even trying to clean it up. :rolleyes: I don't think we need that.)
(3) - She's an acquaintance of my wife's. Seems like a nice lady, so I'll vote for her again.
I think this will be the most votes I've ever cast for Republicans.
Oddly, I remain a registered Democrat...mostly to be able to participate in the party primaries.
I seem to have come a long way from the first votes I ever cast...for Barney Frank and either Ted Kennedy or Paul Tsongas in 1982 (Can't actually remember). Frank wasn't openly gay then, he even got the endorsement of the guy he was replacing, Father Robert Drinan. Fr. Drinan had to give up his position when the Pope said nobody in religious life could hold government office.
Someday I should post my reminiscenses of knocking on doors for Walter Mondale in 1984, getting yelled at by Jesse Jackson, and the truly odd people in the "People for Cranston" campaign.