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Simmons' Social Security Stance Taken To Task
New London Day ^ | 1/13/2005 | Tedd Mann

Posted on 01/16/2005 8:00:22 PM PST by UCAL

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To: PhilDragoo

I picked up Congressman Bob Walker - R - Pennsylvania to bring him to an Ed Munster fund-raiser. Munster was our candidate against Gejdenson in 1992, 1994 and 1996.

How cool is that, to get to spend two hours driving and listening to Robert Walker?

Walker wanted to come to the district because Sam Gejdenson was the only - repeat ONLY - congressman that he did not like on a personal level. He liked Maxine Waters; thought Ron Dellums was a great guy; liked Barney Franks. He stated that Gejdenson was just about the least popular guy in congress.

Simmons is probably OK until the next round of re-districting. By then, the democrats should control all the levers of government here in Connecticut.


21 posted on 01/16/2005 9:05:59 PM PST by UCAL (My kids will register Republican or they pay for their own college tuition.)
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To: A Balrog of Morgoth
Simmons has taken up the cause of better equipping non armored humvees in Iraq also. I think that was what he was referring to. He sits on the Armed Services Committee and that has been a cause of his, even before it became a national issue.
22 posted on 01/16/2005 9:13:23 PM PST by Righteous Wing (Righteous Wing)
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To: UCAL
Maybe. Kind of like John Rowland suddenly converting from conservative to liberal when he left Congress to run for Governor?
23 posted on 01/16/2005 9:16:14 PM PST by Righteous Wing (Righteous Wing)
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To: UCAL
Congressman Robert S. Walker retired from the U.S. House of Representatives after serving Pennsylvania’s 16th District for twenty years. During that service he became Chairman of the Science Committee, Chief Deputy Republican Whip, Chairman of the Republican leadership and Speaker Pro Tempore. Because of his role as GOP floor manager for much of his career, the prestigious insider publication, the National Journal, said of him, “Indeed as much as anyone, he is the father of the revolution that led to the Republican victory in 1994.”
24 posted on 01/16/2005 9:21:03 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: Righteous Wing

I had my doubts about Rowland early on. When he represented the heavily Catholic 5th district he was pro-life. Then he decides to run for Governor and SHAZAM he's pro-choice. I guess he heard something on the radio while driving to Hartford to file the papers.

If you elect politicians with no core values you get Republicans like Rowland and democrats like Clinton. Simmons is a fairly well grounded guy with a few positions I do not agree with. He's no Rowland!


25 posted on 01/16/2005 9:21:07 PM PST by UCAL (My kids will register Republican or they pay for their own college tuition.)
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To: Righteous Wing

OK, fair enough, but if the relatively low cost of uparmoring a few thousand humvees is gonna put this guy off from any attempt at Social Security reform, he might be better served by keeping his mouth shut.


26 posted on 01/16/2005 9:24:59 PM PST by A Balrog of Morgoth (With fire, sword, and stinging whip I drive the Rats in terror before me.)
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To: UCAL

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee thinks Simmons is "flippant and callous?"
I think the Democratic party's spending us into this problem for the last 40 years far surpasses "flippant and callous" and proceeds to "vicious and destructive."
Is there some way we can float a voter initiative and take it out of their personal pensions?


27 posted on 01/16/2005 9:31:43 PM PST by henderson field
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To: UCAL
No, I agree, Simmons is no Rowland and I did not mean to imply that. I was drawing a comparison to Shundler's success as Mayor vs. loss as Governor (candidate) vs. Rowland's perception that he should change ideologies along with offices.

But while we are making comparisons, let us not forget that both Rowland and Gejedensen were implicated in the House bank draft scandal. If forget how many bad checks Gejedensen wrote, but Rowland wrote something like 20 or 25 thousand dollars worth. For anyone else in the real world, that is called a felony! Wow! John Rowland and a felony.....how is that for dejavue?

By the way, I agree with your previous comment on redistricting. Republicans will soon be squeezed out of CT. That issue needs to be addressed by an ugly word in CT: "referendum"! And if not done so, not just in CT, but nationwide, we will have problems in other states as well. This gerrymandering has got to go, in Republican as well as Democrat districts. It is political tyranny and the the very worst kind of partisan politics that George Washington worried about and warned us about.
28 posted on 01/16/2005 9:33:25 PM PST by Righteous Wing (Righteous Wing)
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To: A Balrog of Morgoth
I agree! Like I stated before, Social Security is not a government function, as per the Constitution. (Much unlike national defense!) As the government is running an already antiquated system into the ground, they should get out of the social welfare business and lets us all keep more of our own money.
29 posted on 01/16/2005 9:37:42 PM PST by Righteous Wing (Righteous Wing)
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To: UCAL

"I picked up Congressman Bob Walker - R - Pennsylvania to bring him to an Ed Munster fund-raiser. Munster was our candidate against Gejdenson in 1992, 1994 and 1996."



Wow, that's awesome. Bob Walker was one of the main reasons why we took over Congress in 1994.

Speaking of 1994, Edward Munster came within what, 20 votes, of beating Sam Gejdenson? That would have been a HUGE upset. Unfortunately, 1996 was a big Democrat year in CT (Gary Franks lost, and Nancy Johnson barely held on) and Clinton carried the district in a landslide and we had to wait until Simmons caught Gejdenson napping in 2004


30 posted on 01/17/2005 11:41:03 AM PST by AuH2ORepublican (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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To: AuH2ORepublican

Congressman Walker was / is obviously a great guy. I had followed his speeches on C-Span and getting to pick him up was a perk for all the unpaid hours I had put into the campaign. I asked a few questions but mostly listened to him run down the races nationwide. He was predicting a GOP takeover of the house even two months out.

On election night we fell 2 votes short. This quickly became 11 votes and then 21 votes after the recount. There were all the usual issues (felons voting, uneven standards from town to town, double voting) but the courts didn't see it our way.

During the recount I got to spend quite a bit of time with now Senator Sununu. He had been sent in by the RNCC to oversee the recount process. He was a nice guy and totally down to earth. Hopefully time and success haven't altered him too much.


31 posted on 01/17/2005 11:51:09 AM PST by UCAL (My kids will register Republican or they pay for their own college tuition.)
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To: UCAL

"On election night we fell 2 votes short. This quickly became 11 votes and then 21 votes after the recount. There were all the usual issues (felons voting, uneven standards from town to town, double voting) but the courts didn't see it our way."



Yes, I remember. I was living in Connecticut at the time, so I got to read about it on a regular basis. But didn't Munster actually take the lead at one point between Election Day and final certification?

Good to hear that Senator Sununu is a good guy. I supported him in the 2002 Senate primary against Bob Smith, and I think he has done a good job so far. Anytime a pro-life conservative can beat an incumbent governor (Shaheen) in New England you know he's somebody special.


32 posted on 01/17/2005 12:18:51 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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To: AuH2ORepublican
Munster never led against Gejdenson. We were given bad numbers from one of the towns on election night. By this I mean that a volunteer called the headquarters and gave bad information. We posted this up on our board.

At that time you didn't have the Internet to reference so we went to bed thinking we'd won a narrow victory. The headline in the Hartford Courant came as quite a shock. It was a really weird emotional roller coaster. As a Republican I could not help but be happy with the 1994 results. Unfortunately, the one race I had the most invested in was a narrow loss.

One last note. Gejdenson had been instrumental in denying an Indiana Republican his rightful seat in Congress a few years prior to this. I forget his name (McClosky?). In this case I think the guy had won and been certified by the Sec. of State. The dems just invalidated the results and seated his incumbent opponent. In hindsight, it was comical to hear Gedjendson try to explain how the situation was different.
33 posted on 01/17/2005 9:24:54 PM PST by UCAL (My kids will register Republican or they pay for their own college tuition.)
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To: UCAL

"One last note. Gejdenson had been instrumental in denying an Indiana Republican his rightful seat in Congress a few years prior to this. I forget his name (McClosky?). In this case I think the guy had won and been certified by the Sec. of State. The dems just invalidated the results and seated his incumbent opponent. In hindsight, it was comical to hear Gedjendson try to explain how the situation was different."



Frank McCloskey was the Indiana Democrat who was defeated in 1984, but the Democrats in the House declared him the winner and seated him despite the Secretary of State's certification of Republican Richard McIntyre. I bet Gejdenson looked real smooth excplaining how the Connecticut certification was binding but the Indiana certification was not.


34 posted on 01/18/2005 7:52:06 AM PST by AuH2ORepublican (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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To: Righteous Wing

Being "independent" in his case is just code words for having John McCain come out to CT and endorse him when he's in trouble.


35 posted on 01/18/2005 8:02:44 PM PST by alexfromct
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