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Three Republicans are vying for the chance to unseat Fifth District Democrat Congressman Chris Murphy this year. I e-mailed each candidate’s campaign some questions based on statements in his own or his opponents’ mailings: confirm or deny—and back it up in all events.

Justin Bernier’s campaign manager got back to me within a few hours and told me everything I wanted to know.

Nothing from the other two candidates, so I tried again three days later. In response to a second e-mail to Sam Caligiuri’s campaign, to which I added a note that I wrote to and for newspapers, two of his operatives asked for my phone number so that Sam could speak to me personally. When I didn’t hear from him or them in another three days, I e-mailed a third request. Still no response as I draft this letter.

Three e-mails to Mark Greenberg’s campaign have elicited absolutely no response.

One would think that candidates virtually begging for votes—and their diligent staffers hoping for longer-term employment—would be rather more attentive and responsive to potential voters than Messrs. Caligiuri and Greenberg and/or their minions.

Moreover, since accessibility and constituent service are an integral and undeniably important part of a congressman’s responsibility, one comes away with the uncomfortable feeling that an unresponsive campaign portends a congressman’s equally unresponsive service for and to constituents.

Thus, could a voter and potential constituent count on Sam Caligiuri or Mark Greenberg with any confidence?

Yours faithfully,
Paul Mordecai Rosenberg
Litchfield

Republican Primary:

The Republican Primary for Senate has its share of Political Games
This year’s race for the Senate has had as many turns a Springer show. Maybe that’s why many of us think that Politics as usual has got to change. Gone are the days of going out and kissing babies so to speak now it’s all about smoke and mirrors. Well not for everyone. Let’s look at the Republican Senate race more closely.
Linda McMahon has campaigned and worked from day one for your vote. She has gone door to door, town to town and city to city to listen and try her best to find what it is that voter’s need and what she needs to deliver. Everyone may not agree with her but she has not hidden away or campaigned in a negative manner without provocation.

Rob Simmons on the other hand is playing everyone for a fool. He didn’t do well with his business as usual approach and he constantly changes like the wind depending on the town or voter group he is talking to. He is everything that we need to change. He’s not a bad person but he just can’t give up, as most career politicians find and so he has crawled back into the race without anyone being able to question his positions or strategy. He simply started off by bad mouthing a fellow Republican and now demands your vote. This is neither the work ethic nor the kind of tactic that we should permit. It does not take money to go door to door, town squares, local events and hard work (feet on the street). So many excuses, but the fact is he conceived this plan a long time ago to trick voters. Shame on Rob Simmons our state deserves more than a polished political nightmare.

Keith Burris, in the column “How Connecticut can shock the world” (July 18), calls for Republicans to “choose substance over money” and vote for Rob Simmons instead of Linda McMahon in the August 10 Republican primary. Burris’s request surely got a laugh out of careful observers of the former congressman. For years, Mr. Simmons has twisted and contorted his positions on the most pressing issues facing the nation. Whether it is card check, cap and trade, or the Supreme Court’s disastrous Kelo decision, Simmons has repeatedly switched his stances to save his political skin. A man who once spoke of how he liked to “go out and deliver the money” to his district now carries a tea bag and a copy of the U.S. Constitution?
Voters are getting wise to such cheap political subterfuge, and that’s why Linda McMahon and other straight-talking candidates with real-world experience are enjoying such success.

Rob Simmons is exactly what’s wrong with today’s political elites. He was wisely rejected by a majority of Republican delegates at their convention in May, and will be decisively rejected by registered Republicans in the GOP’s primary.
Let us not forget Peter Schiff. Oh yes he’s a published author self proclaimed genius and apparently very good at telling everyone how wrong they are. He is constantly being negative but never really telling voters what he will do and how. He spends his campaign dollars bad mouthing fellow Republicans instead of focusing on the prize of beating Richard Blumenthal. The way that politics has played out over the years this should sicken most of you. It has turned into a live Springer show. Shame on Peter Schiff, for fighting every one of his battles from the negative side. I guess when you deal in finance your used to a lot of negative red ink.

This election I can say from personal experience that Linda McMahon does care and I have had the privilege to work with her on a couple of local projects. Linda has stuck to the goal of winning her seat and the fact that Mr. Blumenthal has occasional issues with the truth hasn’t been the focus of her campaign as she moves forward past all of the negativity and tries to focus on the primary and next the Senate Race. As voters, please work to inform yourself; don’t let pieces of video taken out of context by negative people sway your decision. If you don’t know the answer ask the question and if the answer you get isn’t a plan but a statement be afraid. We need to hold candidates and politicians accountable for statements and plans. I believe that Linda McMahon will do what she has said she will do and has not waivered since the beginning of her campaign. Please pay attention to your government, your candidates and vote in your respective primaries.

Thank you,
John P. Bongiorno
Litchfield

Democratic Primary:

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