I take it that "Waterbury" means the Muckles, Bill O'Brien, CRTLC and their fellow activists there. Did you try to persuade them on CT-3 or CT-5 or on Martha Dean for AG? I don't claim that I can "deliver" them but I have every expectation that I can talk to them. When they say that they do not know enough about a candidate, they are being honest and they will not endorse candidate A simply because they reject candidate B. They want a sense of confidence that a candidate they may support is WORTH supporting on his/her own merits. I don't blame them.
I would agree with you on NH-2. Kuster deserves to lose. So did Bass, however, like his father before him. In Massachusetts Senate race, I would not have voted for Fauxcahontas, Martha Coakley, Mrs. Tsongas and likely not for Scott Brown either. I know nothing about the Western Mass Congressional candidates other than Olver who had earned a defeat. Likewise the New York candidates other than Hoffman who deserved support as a Conservative (Democrat) candidate against the despicable pro-abort Ms. Scozzafava to teach the sleazy GOP leadership a deserved lesson.
In the Connecticut races: The black guy who ran against De Lauro looked particularly good and worth supporting. Martha Dean for AG over either Blumenturd or his replacement early and often. CT-5: Mark Greenberg even if he was a Zoroastrian and had been "married" to his donkey. I would have stirred from my computer in my old age to help him.
Face it. Sometimes (not always) "society" is well-worth boycotting. Seen many good Hollywood movies lately? How about Network TV series? Much good new pop music? Here in Illinois, my State Rep.. my State Senator and my Congresscritter are all ostensibly "conservatives" especially in their voting records BUT they are each and every one total party hacks for a state party that makes Connecticut's GOP look like the John Birch Society. My Congresscritter is particularly objectionable as a loyal footstool for Boehner, Cantor and McCarthy. I want to encourage each of them----- to retire. I don't vote for them.
In the Tolland race, that was a nice victory. Guns were the issue of the moment and gun groups SHOULD have taken the lead. They did. Good for them.
CRTLC is not the problem per se.
Muckle broke with the group and worked hard for Greenberg. He was also a loyal soldier for Suzio.
The problem, in my opinion, is that the “movement” has a life of its own. People in the parishes get Judie’s mailings ... they obsess over “if I vote for the wrong person it is a sin” and therefore become non-voters in many races and non-participants. Thus, the blank ballots.
Successful movements believe their opponents are the sinners. Ours is a movement of non-participation as a means of avoiding sin. A political movement that teaches its adherents to be non-participants ... peculiar.
Greeberg is running again. We are doing small donors, trying to run up a huge number of donors by the June 30 reporting date. The Litchfield County GOP crowd might let him have the nomination this time.
In the Meriden-Hartford area pro-life victories ‘10 and ‘12:
Markley
Suzio for 2 years
Welch state senate Bristol
Aldinolfi Cheshire rep defeat Esty
Zupkus Cheshire rep defeat Nardello
Sampson Wolcott rep
Carpino Cromwell rep
McGee hartford north end DEM primary
GOP picked up the North Haven seat in a surprise
We lost Derby ... 49% but will get it in ‘14
3 more seats in Middletown area got 49% and then those 3 seats were broken up into 9 pieces during the redistricting, so none of the 3 now has a district to run in.
The voters are willing ...