Saturday News Roundup
• The Wilton Bulletin has an article on last weekend's DTC breakfast, and quotes some of Jim's speech there:
For Jim Himes, who is challenging Congressman Christopher Shays for the 4th District seat, the issues that convinced him to run more than one year ago and were highlighted when he first met with Wilton residents at the previous year’s event at Trackside are more pressing than ever.
Issues such as the war in Iraq, the loss of civil liberties and a need to take on a national energy initiative continue to be the thrust of his campaign.
“It’s a little sobering because not only haven’t we turned these things around, they’re worse,” said Mr. Himes.
He said “George Bush and his cronies in Washington” are “eroding the American dream” with deliberate policies that have directly led to the economic downturn and the situation many Americans find themselves in today.
• Genghis at CT Local Politics notes that the Cook Report has changed their rating of CT-02 to "solid Democrat" (from "likely Dem"). In other prognosticating news, Cook has also rated Rep. Shays as one of the most vulnerable incumbents in the nation, and Roll Call recently rated CT-04 a "tossup."
• The NYT yesterday had a sobering editorial on the startling recently reported statistics of income inequality in Connecticut. (Read Jim's op-ed on the issue from last month.)
• Michael Ian Black writes to his Congressman.
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