his remarks about DM were right on the button....witness DM’s career since then....
Fed ID's companies that used crisis aid programs
Two other recipients were the California State Teachers Retirement System and the City of Bristol (Connecticut) General City Retirement Fund.
3.3 trillion??
Then why not demad an appology for whatever media outlet published the misleading stories that misled the "radio guru?" Well, we can't have the actual source of the information held to account - not when we can attack a conservative radio host!
5th largest veteran’s population isn’t saying much considering the size of Connecticut. Cheap motels in the home of espn,imagine that.
Such surveys typically include "proximity to NYC" as one of the criteria.
Sometimes bragging just proves how small time you really are. Fifth largest in Conneticut. Isn't that like bragging you came in 5th in a 5 person race?
Oh, okay...I'm SORRY that your city only has ESPN and a few cheap hotels.
Hows that???
It doesn’t sound that bad. I think the Bristol Mayor could have said nothing and nobody would have really made much of it. Now that he made it into a fight, it will be all over the media. Sometimes it is better to say nothing at all, Mr. Mayor.
Rush will be on in few minutes...should be fun show as he responds to this.
Bristol backed Democrat Obama by an overwhelming margin in 2008. Obama won 61% of Bristol voters, easily defeating McCain in every part of the city. Results showed that Zero racked up a staggering landslide in Bristol in every single precinct.
There are 24,886 households in Bristol at last count, of which 49.6% are married couples living together. 11.5% have a female householder with no husband present, and 35% are non-families (!).
Bristol brags about having the 5th largest veteran population in Connecticut in order to justify federal handouts. Again, the burg's population is only 61,000 men, women and children. Be still, my bleeding heart.
Leni
Bristol, because ... we’re just that much better than Bridgeport.
Oops. Sometimes if you live off of news stories, you’ll get burned when those news stories get things wrong.
Still, I bet Rush apologizes — he usually corrects things when he’s been misled by stories and used them in his show.
While I like Art Ward, I lived in Bristol from 1993 to 2009
Industry is GONE from Bristol. They also are rebuilding the highway through town for all the traffic, not sure how many local people are employed there, but that is all the big business going on in Bristol!
There was an AC Delco plant there, GONE 10 years ago
The mall downtown was torn down due to lack of business
ESPN is the largest employer in town, and most people are from other places originally
P&W engines used tobe made next own over but that has been closed 15 years now
Bristol ust aint got a lot going for it, and Limbaugh is partially right, an outsider might describe it just like he did: just a few cheap hotels and ESPN.
I am from Connecticut. Bristol really isn’t much, but that’s part of the reason why ESPN located there. Who wants to pay Fairfield County or big city prices for real estate for scads of big satellite dishes?
I used to watch the Colonel Clown show that was headquartered at Lake Compounce Amusement Park in Bristol (sponsored by Mucke’s frankfurters). Route 6 is a crummy road to drive on.
It is not a dump like most of the big cities in CT now are (New Haven, Hartford, Bridgeport, Waterbury, Meriden), but it also doesn’t have any of the resources of those cities (Hartford Atheneaum, Yale, PT Barnum Museum, fantastic churches).
Did he dispute any of Rush’s claims?
What was Rush lying about?
The truth is ALWAYS a valid defense.
My My, aren’t we the touchy one Steve!
Rush is Right. Bristol is a Turnpike exit with ESPN.
If they had set up shop in Danbury instead the largest
business in town today would be a Dennys.
Maybe Bristol, CT will become the eastern Rio Linda?
Hey, my Dad’s family is from Bristol ...
Used to be a hard-working blue collar town with A LOT of industry [such as the New Departure Machine Works, a division of GM]. During WWII, New Departure made precision ball bearings for airplanes, tanks, trucks, and even Norden Bomb Sights ...
But, as with almost everything in the area, the industry dried up and now it is essentially a bedroom community for Hartford ...
What a shame ...