Today, I was out soaking up Vitamin D at the annual Derby Day celebration, one of the main events on the social calendar of Derby. (more on that later)
So my second time walking past the GOP booth my failing ears heard a black male voice saying “and I’m running against Rosa DeLauro” which stopped me in my tracks. There is virtually no chance he will win, but I relayed to him the Democratic Primary results for US Senate in Texas that I wrote about.
He’s the guy in this somewhat fuzzy picture
I wish I had read his brochure before I walked away. He grew up in an orphanage, went into the Navy, is married and has children, and at one point was President of the NAACP chapter in Danbury.
He also is a local radio guy – on WICC, the Cumulus station with the Pro-union socialist guys and Clark Howard. He then worked at WSTC/WNLK – the two AM stations Cox Broadcasting just donated to Sacred Heart University. He did a show on WINE-AM in Danbury for 10 years, but I’m out of the local range of that station. According to Wikipedia, WINE was doing news/talk until Cumulus bought the station during the radio consolidation land rush, converted it to playing Tony Bennett songs about San Francisco and the current ESPN sports
Winsleyforcongress.com is his web site.
This blog post was not authorized by anyone and not subject to John McCain’s laws designed to impose criminal penalties on unauthorized political opinions on the Internet. Actually, that’s not true – I did ask if he was okay if I wrote about him and put it on the Internet and he said “yes”. Lock me up.
Gee, why didn’t he end up in prison, or die by gang-bangers? Oh, I know, because he’s not a scumbag.
I love his campaign slogan; it’s very retro. I mean really retro, like from a 1920’s campaign poster. Very cool. If I thought he had a chance I send him some dough.
One of the challenges he faces is that this district includes Yale University.
Yale has about 11,000 students, 4000 faculty members and 9000 staff. That’s hard to overcome, even if the State had a meaningful Republican party.
I lost all hope when the Republican Party of Connecticut in 2006 walked away from their own US Senate candidate in order to support Joe Lieberman, who had lost his Democratic Primary race to Ned Lamont. You may remember that Joe Lieberman was the Democratic Party nominee for Vice Pesident running with AlGore in 2000.
It’s all about the power, the money and the pork. It has nothing to do with ideas or principles.
Great write-up about the sort of person we really need in elected office in order to replace the guys who are all about the power, the money and the pork.
I hear you about the situation in Connecticut. Once a person comes to the understanding that the ‘old guard’ protects their own then a person may be ready to accept surrealism is the new normal.
Wayne Winsley got 27% of the vote
Well, it’s a start down a long road.