Duff Delivers Dollars From Hartford

by turfgrrl

June 16th, 2008 · 24 Comments

Tags: CT Senate · Norwalk

24 Responses so far ↓ “Duff Delivers Dollars From Hartford”

• 1 Anonymous // Jun 17, 2008 at 8:21 pm

  It’s just a little more than he spent on promotional Dunkin Donuts that he distributed to the polling places during the last election.

• 2 Anonymous // Jun 17, 2008 at 8:34 pm

  Great job, Bob, thanks!

• 3 Anonymous // Jun 17, 2008 at 8:37 pm

  Bob works hard for Norwalk and Darien. Thank you.

• 4 anonymous // Jun 17, 2008 at 9:09 pm

  This isnt as much as the money he steered to his campaign manager/lobbyisy Mary Peewwww, Robert Burgess and Vito Foccaccia. He knows how to reward his loyal supporters. Does Bob’s campaign contributions show how much Eveready Taxi donated ? Could be interesting. Sen. Papadakos will not act like this.

• 5 Anonymous // Jun 18, 2008 at 6:42 am

  “The Little Guy” certainly doesn’t miss an opportunity for cheap PR; right #2 and #3? One in the same?

• 6 anonymous // Jun 18, 2008 at 7:05 am

  This guy neds to be investigated for his role in the transportation “forums” and monies and influence peddled for Mary Pew, Bobby Burgess and Vito Foccachia of Eveready. Smells like jail for someone.

• 7 anonymous // Jun 18, 2008 at 7:35 am

  Nice letter from Art Sciallaba in the Hour blasting Burgess, Pugh and Duff for Taxigate. Sen. Papadakos will not work for the interests of “lobbyists”.

• 8 Anonymous // Jun 18, 2008 at 8:45 am

  Funny but to get Arty to move his butt and write a letter to the Hour, someone or something must have struck a nerve.

• 9 Anonymous // Jun 18, 2008 at 10:51 am

  the blind leading the blind

• 10 WHY GAS PRICES ARE OUR FAULT // Jun 18, 2008 at 1:25 pm

  Cuba and China are stealing the oil right from under our noses. We refuse to drill of our coast but here is something that should open your eyes.

  While Washington dithers over exploiting oil and gas reserves off the coast of Florida, China has seized the opportunity to gobble up these deposits, which run throughout Latin America, the Caribbean and along the U.S. Gulf coast.

  The Chinese have forged a deal with Cuban leader Fidel Castro to explore and tap into massive oil reserves almost within sight of Key West, Florida. At the same time, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who controls the largest oil reserves in the Western Hemisphere, is making deals to sell his country’s oil to China, oil that is currently coming to the United States.

  Meanwhile, a new left-wing populist regime in Bolivia has nationalized the natural gas industry, threatening to cut off supplies to the United States.

  UGLY ANWR the environmentalists keep showing pictures of pristine ANWR when in fact it is mostly a barren, hell hole with no life.

  There are several other reasons the coastal plain is distinct from the rest of the ANWR. It is not part of the hills and mountains of the Brooks Range, where the environmentalists take their beautiful photos of the ANWR. It is a flat, treeless, almost featureless plain in northeastern Alaska that extends from the Brooks Range northward to the Beaufort Sea. There are times on the coastal plain when exposing human flesh to the elements would ensure death. The temperature can drop to -40 degrees Fahrenheit in January. Few animals can thrive in those temperatures.

• 11 Anonymous // Jun 18, 2008 at 2:27 pm

  #10: I have the short answer to your question: the DemocRATS!

• 12 Anonymous // Jun 18, 2008 at 5:15 pm

  You can rant and blame the current gas crisis on every liberal or environmental group you can count on those knuckle-dragging sausage fingers of yours, but the fact remains: gas was on average at $1.54 a gallon in March 2000, scarcely a month after the nimrod in chief took office. The Dickster then had a series of secret meetings with top oil executives. Gas is now what, $4.50 a gallon in CT?

  The Dems in Congress were effectively neutered until the 2006 elections and even since then, have rolled over continually for this administration despite the tough talk when they took over Congress.

  Get over it. The GOP, with a nearly complete and total lock on power for six years, didn’t do anything to get gas prices under control. Are you saying that a few whiny liberals had so much influence that they could create that much of an impasse for the ruling party?

  The only way out of this mess is to stop pointing fingers and develop new technologies, like the goal of the X-Prize Competition to build a vehicle that gets 100mpg. Or dump that gas-hog American iron you’re no doubt driving.

• 13 Anonymous // Jun 18, 2008 at 6:12 pm

  #10’s posting repeats more of the same right-wing lies and misinformation that have been peddled to the indecisive and uninformed as “truth” for the past eight long, wasted years.

  McClatchey News Service has outed them in this coverage regarding the surreptitious efforts to bolster support for drilling in ANWR: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/40776.html.

  By the way, that load of horseshit you’re spouting sounds like you’re a Fox Propaganda Channel viewer. The June 10, 2008 U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee Report entitled “The Truth About Crude Oil Production in ANWR” states:

  “The recent run-up in the price of crude oil has prompted new calls for the Federal government to increase its petroleum production by allowing exploration and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) along the northern coast of Alaska. While there is a strong incentive to provide much needed relief to American families who are currently struggling with high gasoline prices, analysis of ANWR’s projected contribution to crude oil markets suggests that relief will be neither substantial nor timely in its effect. Based on Energy Information Administration (EIA) projections of the effect of ANWR on crude oil prices, we estimate that opening up ANWR will reduce gasoline prices by just one cent, starting in 2018.”

  You can download the whole report as a pdf (if the level of your reading comprehension allows you to get through it) at: http://jec.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Reports.Reports&ContentRecord_id=77afe2d6-0615-20c9-f737-0ec0886c6668

• 14 Anonymous // Jun 19, 2008 at 3:36 am

  Before I read comments #12 and #13, I was uninformed about the issue of high gasoline prices. After reading those comments, I have been enlightened. Allow me to recite just a few of the admirable virtues of the poster’s powerful argument:

  1. Use of an Italian slur: knuckle-dragging sausage fingers.
  2. A misrepresentation that the Republicans had a veto-proof or a filibuster-proof super majority in both Houses until 2006.
  3. Allegations of secret meetings between the Vice-President and oil company executives promoting a “Haliburton conspiracy” to raise gasoline prices.
  4. Use of the word “Nimrod”, an antisemitic slur.
  5. A pejorative Clintonian reference to those conspiratorial members of the monolithic “right wing”.
  6. A dead link from McClatchy, the owners and publishers of the Sacramento Bee, an obviously fair and balanced news source.
  7. A pejorative reference to those that choose to watch Fox News as opposed to NBC or others of its ilk and political predisposition.
  8. A reference as authority to The Joint Economic Committee, “Joint” as in House, Senate; headed by Schumer and Maloney; two democratic legislators with a web site that promotes increasing taxes and the abandoning the Iraq war.
  9. A suggestion that those with differing opinions are illiterate.

  I am now firmly convinced that if the Supreme Court hadn’t stolen the 2000 election, President Gore would have kept gas prices to an average of $1.54 per gallon, to this day!

• 15 Anonymous // Jun 19, 2008 at 7:20 am

  Nice try, but no cigar:

  1. My psychic powers are limited, but the slur was meant for the idiocy of the poster’s argument and not his presumptive ethnicity;
  2. Who said anything about veto- or filibuster-proof? The power lay with the GOP. They steamrolled over pretty much everything that came before them. And until the Dems took over Congress in 2007, our numbnuts-in-chief (how’s that? better?) vetoed only ONE bill in all that time.
  3. So what were they talking about? The weather?
  4. Nimrod: a slow-witted person. According. to. the. Urban. Dictionary. at. www.urbandictionary.com (this time I left the period off the end of the URL so you can figure it out all by yourself).
  5. Aha! A Clinton-hater! Puts a lot of your diatribe into context. By the way, wtf are you referring to?
  6. See. number. 4.
  7. I’m not going to waste my time explaining that one. If you want the truth, try BBC for your news source.
  8. Woe is me! Boo hoo! We don’t hold the cards any more! Someone else is making the rules!
  9. No, I’m just questioning the intelligence of any one who still falls for the ordure that issues forth daily from the White House and its minions.

  Thanks for the opportunity to respond! And BTW, “Recount” was pretty good. Even James Baker thinks they got it right.

• 16 just a blogger // Jun 19, 2008 at 8:15 am

  New York Times this AM:

  “Four western oil companies are in the final stages of negotiaton this month on contracts that will return them to Iraq 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power.

  “Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP - the original partners in the Iraq Petroleum Company…are in talks with Iraq’s oil ministry for no-bid contracts…The no-bid contracts are unusual for the industry…”

  Makes one wonder about the “make the world safe for democracy” argument for war.

• 17 # 13 TYPES ARE WHY WE ARE IN THIS MESS // Jun 19, 2008 at 9:14 am

  POSTER 10 TYPES ARE THE REASON WE ARE IN THIS MESS. EVERYTHING IS A RIGHT WING PLOT

  GOOGLE UGLY ANWR YOU WILL FIND DOZENS OF TRUE ARTICLES ON THIS FROZEN PLACE

  Alaska National Wildlife Refuge not the icy paradise it’s cracked up to be
  By Jonah Goldberg, JonahsColumn@aol.com
  Posted: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 12:21 am

  Sen. John McCain said this week he would not drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for the same reason he “would not drill in the Grand Canyon … I believe this area should be kept pristine.”

  Pristine means unspoiled, virginal, in an original state.

  One wonders how pristine the Grand Canyon can be if it has roughly 5 million visitors every year, rafting, hiking, picnicking and riding mules up one side and down the other. Campfires, RVs and motels that do not conjure the word ‘virginal’ ring around large swaths of it.

  This isn’t to say that the Grand Canyon isn’t a beautiful place; it inspires awe among those who visit it. ANWR (pronounced ‘AN-wahr’) inspires awe almost entirely in those who haven’t been there. It is an environmental Brigadoon or Shangri-La, a fabled land almost no one will ever see. That is its appeal.

  People like the idea that there are still Edens out there even if they will never, ever see them. Indeed, if Americans could visit the north coast of Alaska, as I have, as easily as they can visit the Grand Canyon, the oil would be flowing by now.

  ANWR is roughly the size of South Carolina, and it is spectacular. However, the area where, according to Department of Interior estimates, some 5.7 billion to 16 billion barrels of recoverable oil reside is much smaller and not necessarily as awe-inspiring. It would amount to the size of Dulles airport.

  Question for McCain: Has South Carolina been ruined because it has an airport?

  Most of the images of the proposed drilling area that people see on the evening news are misleading precisely because they tend to show the glorious parts of ANWR, even though that’s not where the drilling would take place. Even when they position their cameras in the right location, producers tend to point them in the wrong direction. They point them south, toward the Brooks mountain range, rather than north, across the coastal plain where the drilling would be.

  In summer, the coastal plain is mostly mosquito-plagued tundra and bogs. (The roughnecks at Prudhoe Bay joke that “life begins at 40” — because at 40 degrees, clouds of mosquitoes and other pests take flight from the ocean of puddles). In the winter, it reaches 70 degrees below zero (not counting wind chill, which brings it to 120 below) and is in round-the-clock darkness.

  A few years back, Jimmy Carter wrote of proposed drilling in ANWR in the New York Times: “The roar alone — of road-building, trucks, drilling and generators — would pollute the wild music of the Arctic and be as out of place there as it would be in the heart of Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon.”

  The roads are made from ice, hence constructed in winter, doing no permanent damage to the environment. As for the discordant notes such activity would introduce to the Arctic symphony, I don’t know whether a falling tree makes a sound if no one is there to hear it, but I suspect that the wild music of the Arctic in winter is only euphonious to those — like Carter — who are not actually there to hear it.

  Even in summer, people who actually live on the north coast of Alaska, like the residents of Kaktovik (just three miles north of the coastal plain where drilling might take place) overwhelmingly think good jobs in their backyard is music to their ears.

  Meanwhile, is the ‘music’ of the Grand Canyon really so pristine? Babies crying, kids chasing lizards, campers laughing, donkeys braying, cars honking: Why does this not trouble the consciences of Carter and McCain?

  Perhaps it’s because the analogy between ANWR and the Grand Canyon is spurious on its face. Pristine, after all, is not synonymous with beautiful (there are ugly virgins), and ‘well-trafficked’ is not the same as ugly (millions of people have seen the Sistine Chapel).

  Indeed, before the age of environmental Romanticism had captured elite opinion in this country, such analogies didn’t pass the laugh test. Both the New York Times and Washington Post editorial boards enthusiastically supported drilling in ANWR in the late 1980s. The Post noted that the area “is one of the bleakest, most remote places on this continent, and there is hardly any other where drilling would have less impact on surrounding life. …”

  To say such things today is to unforgivably pollute the inane music of groupthink. And that’s something even the ‘maverick’ McCain will not do.

  Contact Goldberg at JonahsColumn@aol.com
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  CHINA DRILLING OF FLORIDA SHORE

  #10 ALSO GETS HIS INFO FROM THE DAILY KOS. One of the most Ultra Left Wing hate and lie spewing blog’s on the Internet.

  Google OIL DRILLING OFF CUBA

  He can stick his head where the sun doesn’t shine but that does not mean that it didn’t come out today.

  China will send 12 hi-tech rigs to drill for oil in Cuban waters of the Gulf of Mexico, officials have confirmed, irking US lawmakers that US firms cannot prospect in nearby US waters.
  Cuba has stepped up work on a total of 36 new oil wells with Chinese companies and Canada’s Sherritt, about four kilometers (2.5 miles) off the north coast, officials said privately…And diplomatic sources on Thursday said that India’s ONGC Videsh and Norway’s Norsk Hydro would join forces with Spain’s Repsol to seek crude in the Gulf of Mexico.
  Among other companies with prospecting rights if not projects there are Canada’s Sherritt International and Brazil’s state oil giant Petrobras.
  Cuba has invited US firms to take part but the US economic embargo bars them from doing so.
  Business as usual — if you want votes in Miami

  A LEFT WING LIBERAL NEVER LETS THE FACTS GET IN THE WAY OF HIS JUDGMENT.

• 18 A Dempsey // Jun 19, 2008 at 9:21 am

  The Daily Kos, that’s the “Mein Kamph” of the Left Wing.

• 19 Anonymous // Jun 19, 2008 at 9:56 am

  OK, children, wipe the froth from your lips and listen up: Jonah Goldberg is a well-known right-wing shill, so your arguments are as biased as the accusations you’re throwing out at the left.

  From FactCheck.org (you can figure that URL out, hopefully):

  “ANWR could create nearly a million barrels of oil a day (though the mean estimated “peak” number is 876,000 and would not hold steady “every day” as Bush claims). Current U.S. crude oil production is 5.1 million barrels a day. With rather generous rounding, one could calculate that oil from ANWR would bring a 20 percent increase in current U.S. crude oil production.

  But supply is only one part of the equation. Bush didn’t mention that with U.S. consumption at 20.6 million barrels of oil a day, the ANWR bounty, if all went well, could only satisfy 5 percent of the U.S. thirst. That wouldn’t have much impact on eventual gas prices.

  More importantly, any effect from drilling in ANWR wouldn’t be realized for many years. Even if legislation to tap the oil reserves were passed today, it would take years to reap the crude. An Energy Information Administration analysis in 2004 concluded that “between 7 and 12 years were required from an approval to explore and develop the coastal region of ANWR until first production.” The peak production of 876,000 barrels per day wouldn’t come about for another five years or so. So even assuming Congress gave the go-ahead today, the first oil wouldn’t begin flowing until sometime between 2015 and 2020, with peak output half a decade later.”

  And the right wing sheep are following another lie being spread with the help of the Dickster insofar as the fable about China drilling for oil off Cuba, or Florida, or wherever your tiny peabrains want to imagine. You guys are so easy to lie to! You suck it up like there’s no tomorrow!

  From a June 12 article in the Anchorage Daily News titled “China drilling for oil off Florida coast?

  …No, but rumor persists in support of opening ANWR to energy exploration.”Yet no one can prove that the Chinese are drilling anywhere off Cuba’s shoreline. The China-Cuba connection is “akin to urban legend,” said Sen. Mel Martinez, a Republican from Florida who opposes drilling off the coast of his state but who backs exploration in ANWR.”

  The story’s URL is here (in easy-to-copy-and-paste format!): http://www.adn.com/oil/story/434045.html

• 20 #19 SAD IT'S JIMMY CARTERS SECOND TERM // Jun 19, 2008 at 12:15 pm

  “More importantly, any effect from drilling in ANWR wouldn’t be realized for many years.”

  YADA YADA YADA YAWN….

• 21 anonymous // Jun 19, 2008 at 1:40 pm

  What we need is a good Reagan-type President to com in and direct the country and straighten out this mess. The Republican government is getting as liberal as the Democrats and no one wants to make the hard decisions. Maybe Ron Paul wasn’t such a bad idea.

• 22 Gen Patton // Jun 19, 2008 at 2:08 pm

  Even Reagan couldn’t help us in Iraq. In fact, the last Presidents who knew how to fight a war were Democrats. Americans may never win a war ever again. Roosevelt and Truman understood that in order to win, you had to destroy the infrastructure and economy of your enemy in order to make them unable to wage war. You must do whatever it takes to win, and as quickly as possible. Especially if your enemy is willing to do the same. Americans have gotten soft and are unwilling to do what it takes to win, while our enemies have learned that they can take whatever actions they need to in order to convince the American people that it is not worth the cost. We continue to only go after hard military targets, with minimal disruption to the civilian populace and their economy. Therefore, they are unwilling to force their governments to capitulate. Meanwile, they use opportunities of terroristic attacks to convince the American people to wage peace. Remember that it was the massive bombings of Berlin and other German cities that caused German officials and its people to try to rise against Hitler, and even his own leaders began to turn against him. It was the bombing of Tokyo, Hiroshimo, and Nagasaki that convinced the Japanese to surrender. With the American public the way it is now, we would have lost that war.

• 23 WE ARE HEADING DOWN A DARK PATH // Jun 19, 2008 at 3:12 pm

  The way things are slowly heading in this country,brings to mind GERMANY in 1928-1932. The German people had given up all hope and turned to National Socialism. Those who don’t learn from history are condemned to repeat it.

• 24 Anonymous // Jun 19, 2008 at 4:27 pm

  Yeah, the Republifacists would have us believe that we need to sacrifice all of our personal liberties for security. The first to go will be freedom of speech. Targets such as this blog will be on the hit list. Boy George has already co-opted the media and controls who appears with him at events so he isn’t forced to respond to questions that are substantive or require him to actually exercise any amount of intelligence.

  The next step is to gather information about perceived “enemies of the state,” whether they pose a true threat to security or not. We saw this happen in the Nixon Administration but didn’t find out for quite a while afterward just how extensive the enemies list was. In due time we’ll no doubt hear the same about the current administration.

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