[andthentherewere3]

Originally Posted by seymourct

Independent here and proud of it. That way I feel free to vote my conscience on candidates worthiness or issues without feeling like I am letting down someone else's expectations.

ITA. I wish we could do away with the whole party system.

[seymourct]

Originally Posted by andthentherewere3

ITA. I wish we could do away with the whole party system.

Me too. Although they are pretty well entrenched.

[Tetto]

I'm quite happy she wont run again, perhaps a real conservative will have a fighting chance this next go around...

Gov. Rell: Adios, dont let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya!

[dazzleman]

I'm very sorry that Jodi Rell won't be running for re-election, but I think she's made the right decision for herself politically. In politics, as in show business, always leave them wanting more.

I haven't agreed with her on everything, but I liked the way she hurled death penalty repeal right back in the face of that dysfunctional legislature. We've needed somebody like her to block some of what that abomination of a legislature passes. Their only discernible agenda is to raise spending and taxes, and reduce criminal penalties. I shudder to think of what will happen to the state with a person of like mind to the majority of legislators in the governor's office. Whatever her shortcomings, Rell was the only flimsy obstacle to this state going down the same road to unadulterated hell that New York has traveled.

[Lowerdeck]

Repealing the death penalty was about the only smart thing the legislature has done lately, and leave it to Jodi to screw that one up - just so one man in Cheshire can get his thirst for blood quenched. Not that I don't blame him for wanting it, but let's be real here. The state has better things to do than spend $5-10 million in taxpayer dollars trying to kill these two scum of the earth. Just throw 'em away somewhere in Somers and let em never see the light of the day again - a whole lot easier and cheaper, plus we'd never have to keep hearing their names in the media a ton of times.

[dazzleman]

Originally Posted by Lowerdeck

Repealing the death penalty was about the only smart thing the legislature has done lately, and leave it to Jodi to screw that one up - just so one man in Cheshire can get his thirst for blood quenched. Not that I don't blame him for wanting it, but let's be real here. The state has better things to do than spend $5-10 million in taxpayer dollars trying to kill these two scum of the earth. Just throw 'em away somewhere in Somers and let em never see the light of the day again - a whole lot easier and cheaper, plus we'd never have to keep hearing their names in the media a ton of times.

I don't believe that these people will be locked up for life if taken off death row. The death penalty opponents say they favor life imprisonment, but once they win repeal of the death penalty, they'll start pushing to parole these people. Look at what happened with the Lockerbie bomber. He should have been executed instead of being sent home in the name of a 'mercy' that he denied his victims.

The legislature just wanted to do anything but make the cuts necessary to pass a reasonable budget. State legislatures are such cesspools of corruption and mediocrity.

[Lowerdeck]

Originally Posted by dazzleman

I don't believe that these people will be locked up for life if taken off death row. The death penalty opponents say they favor life imprisonment, but once they win repeal of the death penalty, they'll start pushing to parole these people. Look at what happened with the Lockerbie bomber. He should have been executed instead of being sent home in the name of a 'mercy' that he denied his victims.

The legislature just wanted to do anything but make the cuts necessary to pass a reasonable budget. State legislatures are such cesspools of corruption and mediocrity.

Like the entire Lockerbie bomber release, which was essentially a deal for some contracts.

The entire western world was bought and sold by major multinational corporations a long time ago. They own the governments and pretty much the world.

[dazzleman]

Well, so far the governor's race is shaping up to be a big zero. Nobody seems to even want the job.

[Lowerdeck]

I sense Lamont beating Foley coming November.

[dazzleman]

Originally Posted by Lowerdeck

I sense Lamont beating Foley coming November.

Lamont would probably be a disaster. With the two of them running, it will just be about who can spend the most money.

What we really need is to massacre the legislature. Everybody should go out and vote against their incumbent legislator. They're doing an abysmally poor job and need to be replaced. It doesn't even matter who the governor is with that bad bunch running things at the state capitol.