Posted on 12/06/2010 8:44:38 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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.
Thankfully, the LSM learned their lesson with McNabb and don’t bend over backwards anymore to see a black man succeed.
Oh wait ..
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
“I suspect that the Mayor of Bristol, Conneticut saw an opportunity to bolster the city’s tourism by taking offense and thus garner some free publicity off of Limbaugh.”
Hey, they gotta fill those cheap hotels somehow! :)
Bristol, because ... we’re just that much better than Bridgeport.
Change ‘Quarterback’ to ‘President’ and lookee heeerrrrr fellas! We deja vuja all over again!
He passed out after choking at a UConn Football-watching party Saturday night and had to be placed on a ventilator.
From The Bristol Press:
Mayor Ward in medically induced coma after choking
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.
oh please
i lived there for almost 20 years and just moved out 14 months ago
there is NO GANG problem in Bristol
It is just a lower middle class town, a former great town that lost it’s lifeblood factories, that’s all
it is actually a beautiful town in most places
I lock my doors when I drive through there like most cities in CT. Isn't ESPN outside the main city?
Their dem senator, whose name escapes me, was just defeated by a personal friend, JASON WELCH, and Fundamentalist Born Again Christian!
I love it when a plan works out! :)
It was the worst defeat in Connecticut for dems this past election. And in some cases, the only defeat for the dems.
Goodness, if BRISTOL scaes you, you must be having heart attacks in new Britain and Hartford!
Oh man. I seriously hope he will be fine. Even the letter he wrote to Rush was not bad enough to hope for something like this. Prayers to him.
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.
Art Ward is a Vietnam era Marine, Combat veteran, too. I have had only one dealing with him and he was an okay guy!
Bristol aint that bad, but it is not a place to move in that has a future since the factories closed down.
and Most of Connecticut is ending up that way...
My My, aren’t we the touchy one Steve!
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