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�FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
INTRODUCTION OF GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE BILL CURRY
BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT
OCTOBER 15, 1994
TALKING POINTS
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In this time of challenge and change, the President needs
partners at the state level so we can move this country
forward, so that the people of Connecticut and the people of
America will feel empowered by government -- and not
powerless under government.
•
Bill curry is a man of the people. Throughout his public
career, Bill has proven his commitment to the hard-working
people of Connecticut. He has demonstrated independence and
courage to do what is right for his constituents.
•
As a state senator, Bill worked toward protecting residents
from hazardous wastes, opening government records to public
scrutiny, and making consumer contracts understandable to
the layman.
•
As Comptroller, he proposed reforms so that small businesses
would have greater health-care purchasing power, he
developed an auditing mechanism which uncovered a delay in
the returns of personal income tax refunds, and he pushed
hard to impose on the state legislature stricter discipline
on budgeting and financial reports.
•
He is both a manager and a visionary -- the two qualities
necessary to be an effective state leader.
•
When I think about this election, I am reminded of the
Huskies' unforgettable 1990 NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen
Game against Clemson. Even those of us who don't live in
Connecticut remember "THE SHOT" that gave the Huskies their
single point victory in the final second of the game. Right
now, this election is very close, but as we all know,
determination and ability won the game -- and determination
and ability will win the election.
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INTRODUCTION OF GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE BILL CURRY
BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT
OCTOBER 15, 1994
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Bill CUrry is a man of the people. Throughout his public
career, Bill has proy~n his commitment to the hard-working
people of Connecticut. He has demonstrated independence and
courage to do what is right for his constituents.
•
As a state senator, Bill worked toward protecting residents
from hazardous wastes, opening government records to public
scrutiny, and making consumer contracts understandable to
the la}rman.
•
As Comptroller, he proposed reforms so that small businesses
would have greater heal~a~care purchasing power, he
developed an auditing mechanism which uncovered a delay in
the returns of personal income tax refunds, and he pushed
hard to impose on the state legislature stricter discipline
on budgeting and financial reports.
•
He is both a manager and a visionary -- the two qualities
necessary to be an effective state leader.
•
When I think about this election, I am reminded of the
Huskies' unforgettable 1990 NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen
Game against Clemson. Even those of us who don't live in
Connecticut remember "THE SHOT" that gave the Huskies their
single point victory in the final second of the game. Right
now, this election is very close, but as we all know,
determination and ability won the game -- and determination
and ability will win the election.
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In th1s t1me of challenge, the Pres1dent needs partners at
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feel empowered by government -- and not powerless under
government.
�FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
INTRODUCTION OF GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE BILL CORRY
BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT
OCTOBER 15, 1994
TALKING POINTS
•
Bill Curry is a man of the people. Throughout his public
career, Bill has proven his commitment to the hard-working
people of Connecticut. He has demonstrated independence and
courage to do what is right for his constituents.
•
As a state senator, Bill worked toward protecting residents
from hazardous wastes, opening government records to public
scrutiny, and making consumer contracts understandable to
the layman.
•
As Comptroller, he proposed reforms so that small businesses
would have greater health-care purchasing power, he
developed an auditing mechanism which uncovered a delay in
the returns of personal income tax refunds, and he pushed
hard to impose on the state legislature stricter discipline
on budgeting and financial reports.
•
He is both a manager and a visionary -- the two qualities
necessary to be an effective state leader.
•
When I think about this election, I am reminded of that
unforgettable Huskies' game back in 1990. Even those of us
who don't live in Connecticut remember their single point
victory in the final second of the game. Right now, this
election is very close, but as we all know, determination.
and ability won the game -- and determination and ability
will win the election.
•
In this time of challenge, the President needs partners at
the state level so we can move this country forward, so that
the people of Connecticut and the people of America will
feel empowered by government -- and not powerless under
government.
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FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
INTRODUCTION OF GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE BILL CURRY
BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT
OCTOBER 15 1 1994
TALKING POINTS
•
In less than a month, the people of Connecticut are going to
have to make an important decision. They are going to have
to decide whether they want a governor who's fresh and
forward-looking or one who's interested in reviving the
failed policies and rhetoric of the eighties.
•
Bill Curry is a man of the.people. As a state senator, Bill
worked toward protecting residents from hazardous wastes,
opening government records to public scrutiny, and making
consumer contracts understandable to the layman. As
Comptroller, he proposed reforms so that small businesses
would have greater health-care purchasing power, he
developed an auditing mechanism which uncovered a delay in
the returns of personal income tax refunds, and he pushed
hard to impose on the state legislature stricter discipline
on budgeting and financial reports.
•
He is both a ~anager and a visionary -- the two qualities
necessary for an effective state leader.
•
In the coming weeks, the race for the governor's office will
be close, but just as the Huskies won their 1990 NCAA
tournament game in the final second, Bill Curry will win the
governorship and bring hope and promise to the state of
Connecticut.
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Clinton
Fundraising Luncheon
r~Gubernatorial candidate Bill curry
Bri ge o~t, Connecticut
~ o~er 15, 1994
[Acknowledgments: Luncheon chair Bob Simmons; State party chair
Ed Marcus; the First Lady.]
I am happy to be here in Bridgeport and to honor Bill Curry, the
man who is showing everyone that conventional wisdom isn't always so
wise. The other side likes to pin labels, and they've tried sticking
them on Bill, but I can think of a couple of labels that fit Bill Curry
perfectly. One says "courageous." And the other says "winner."
Bill Curry has courageously defied the odds and taken on the
status quo. And he is a winner because because he is putting the roots
back in grassroots. His campaign has been one that marches on the high
road, to the beat of the people, and they will march with him to the
statehouse in November.
As the people of Connecticut have found out, Bill Curry stands
for government that works for all the people. He has the only plan to
cut property taxes that would put more money into the pockets of
ordinary working people in this great state while it fuels economic
development and creates jobs. I like that so much, I don't even mind
when he gets called the Comeback Kid.
I ran for President because I knew we needed to fight the status
quo. And as we've fought and as we have won, we've been helping
hardworking Americans. I ran for President because I believe the future
for these Americans and for all our country can be the best time we've
ever had, if we show the discipline and the courage and the vision to go
forward and do what we know we ought to do.
I've been in a lot of tough fights in my life, and none so tough
as the one I've been in, in Washington for the last 20 months. But it's
been a good fight. It's a fight to give Americans the power to compete
and win, and to empower all Americans to live up to their God-given
potential; and we have made a good start.
No one would want to go back to the days when we exported jobs,
not products. No one would want us to go back to the days when our
deficit was exploding and our economy was going downhill. That is
exactly the decision that all of you are going to have to make on
November the 8th. Whether we keep going in the right direction, or go
back to the 1980's trickle-down economics.
The folks in the other party talked a good game. But trickledown economics made things not better, but worse. It gave tax breaks to
the wealthiest Americans and raised taxes on the middle class; it gave
our nation a quadrupled deficit; it sent jobs overseas. Most
manufacturing jobs lost in our country were lost in trickle-down. And in
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�their last four years, we· had the worst job growth since the Great
Depression. Connecticut alone lost 150,000 jobs in those four years.
I don't think we want to go back to that, where families
struggle longer and harder for less, where we come apart when we ought
to be coming together.
I ask every American in the next four weeks not just to think of
their discontent with the political system, but remember the problems we
found 20 months ago. And then remember the progress we're making.
Remember who fought us every step of the way while we worked for
progress. And remember now what they want to do: They want to pull us
down so they can push our country back. But I want to build up. I want
to move forward. That's the only direction for America.
We cannot turn back. We're headed in a new direction, with a
new idea about what our national government ought to do -- not a
government that ignores our problems, but not one that promises to solve
all the problems for us, either. But, instead, a government that
empowers citizens to build good lives of their own, not more government,
but less government that works better for ordinary Americans.
Look at the start that's been made. There's the family leave
law, which in Connecticut alone provides extra protection for 670,000
working people so they can succeed as parents and workers. Two million
kids are going to have a better chance at life because we will have
immunization for all American children under the age of two by 1996.
And now we have apprenticeships for young people who don't go to
college but want good jobs. We made college loans affordable for 20
million people. Almost 540,000 right here in Connecticut, are eligible
for lower interest, longer-term, better repayment college loans. It's
the most important thing that's been done for middle-class Americans in
a long time by the national government, and we ought to stick with it.
We sent a welfare reform plan to Congress to end welfare as we
know it, to move people from welfare to work. And while it hasn't
passed yet, it will. And we've already given 17 states permission to
get rid of all federal regulations that undermine their ability to move
people from welfare to work.
For the first time in a generation, we've begun a serious
assault on crime, passing the Brady Bill and the crime Bill with three
strikes and you're out; a 20 percent increase in the number of police
officers on the beat in America. In Connecticut, we've already awarded
$2.5 million to put dozens [341 of extra cops on the streets, and over
the next six years, Connecticut should receive $130 million to put up to
1,500 new cops on the streets. We're building a hundred thousand more
prison cells and funding prevention programs to give young people a
chance to avoid a life of crime.
We've begun, finally, to put our economic house in order. After
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�12 years of exploding deficits, declining incomes and a quadrupled
national debt, now something is being done about the deficit.
We fought for historic deficit reductions -- $255 billion in
federal spending cuts. We did raise tax rates on the top 1.2 percent of
Americans, but we cut taxes for 15 million working Americans. In
Connecticut, that means more than twice as many taxpayers had lower tax
rates as those who had higher [84,000 lower; 39,000 higher). And we cut
taxes for 90 percent of small businesses, including more than 17,000
companies in Connecticut.
Let me remind you: The same folks who exploded our deficit in
the '80s said that if our economic program passed, the sky would fall
the deficit would go up more; the economy would collapse. And every
last member of the Republican Party in the Congress voted against that
program. Thank goodness Al Gore has a vote.
So what happened? For one thing, the sky did not fall. For
another, for the first time since Harry Truman, we're bringing the
deficit down three years in a row. We had more jobs created in high
wage industries this year than in the previous five years combined.
We've had nine months now of growth in manufacturing jobs in a row for
the first time in 10 years. America was voted the most productive
country in the world by the annual Panel of International Economists for
the first time in nine years. And we have 4.6 million new jobs in
America in the last 20 months. The unemployment rate here in Connecticut
has dropped from 6.5 percent to 5.5 percent.
Our exports are up around the world. To Mexico alone, exports
are up 19 percent; exports of cars and trucks are up 500 percent -- 500
percent. And if we pass the world trade agreement, it will enable us to
get more high-wage jobs tied to exports. We are doing that.
Another thing we're trying to do is to make government work with
less. Republicans talk forever about how much they dislike the federal
government and how they wanted to cut bureaucracy and inefficiency. I
just want to remind you that it was our Democratic administration that
passed laws to reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy by 272,000, to
make it the smallest it's been since President Kennedy, and to give
every last dollar of the savings to local communities to fight crime.
Now, we still have a lot of work to do. Too many people still
haven't gotten a raise in a long time; a million Americans lost their
health insurance last year; we have too many people who are trapped in
the cycle of welfare. We have social problems that are profound. The
political system needs internal reform. These are legitimate problems.
What you have to ask yourself is: Who is more likely to meet
these problems? Who is more likely to seize these challenges? You have
seen what our strategy is. It's to create more high-wage American jobs;
train more Americans to do those jobs; bring free enterprise to poor
inner city areas and rural areas that have been ignored for too long;
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�continue to fight for political reforms; and meet the challenges of
America that have not yet been faced in health care, in welfare and in
so many other areas. That is our strategy -- fighting for the future.
Now, consider instead what their strategy is. Whenever they were
faced with an idea to create jobs, or educate students, or fight crime,
or reform the political system -- no matter how good the idea, no matter
that they had already supported it -- they tried to stop it, slow it,
kill it or just talk it to death.
Well, now these same folks tell us what they'll do if you give
them control of Congress. They call it their contract with America. But
if you read this contract, it's not a contract with America, it's really
a contract on America. It would take us back to the 1980s, to trickledown economics. And do they make promises: $1 trillion worth of
promises. You give me $1 trillion, and I'll show you a good time, too.
But all they have is a bunch of promises. And that just means
the same thing it meant in the 1980s: exploding the deficit, shipping
our jobs overseas, cutting Medicare and veterans' benefits, not funding
the crime bill. We must not go back to that sort of politics.
I hope the American people will have a simple answer to this
contract. We've been there. We've seen that. We've tried it. And we
will not be fooled again.
I offer you a difficult and more challeng~ng contract. But the
only one that can work -- it's the contract that had always worked for
America -- it is fighting for the future, making the most of the
potential of every American. It is doing whatever it takes to compete
and win in the global economy of the 21st century.
We have a covenant for the future; they put out a contract on
the future. I think the choice is clear.
Thank you, and God bless you all.
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Curren!ly, it's a two-way race. The last significant poll done (cond,ucted by the ·university of
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The main issue-related . difference between Curry and. Rowland is in the area of tax
reform. Rowland has proposed eliminating the state income tax over a 5-6 year period~
Curry has pro'posed a '$1 billion cut in the property tax (whicl1 would represent an acrossthe-board /cut .of 22./7%). ,
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From a policy perspective, it's also the \'.~TOng tax to cut., He's hying to do here what Chris_tine
Todd Wl1itman has done in New Jersey: institute a n1assive cut in state taxes. Problem is, as
they've already found out .in New Jersey, this:will lead to massive i11creases in local taxes, .
. specifically, the property tax. In fact, in a study done by The Record (a Bergen County daily
paper), :85% of taxpayers are today paying mor·e in taxes than they were befon~ Whitman began
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in her income taX cut - this .increase. is due.. to, skyrocketing property tax rates .
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The income tax is also ·a flat tax (4.5%· for everyone). So, eliminating it •• e'ven if it c~uld be
. do~e -- would be' another example of Republicans helping the rich at the expense of the middle
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Curry's plan to cut property taxes would put more money into the pockets,of average working.
people than any other proposal that's been put forth in this ~paign. · ·
In addition ---and this is important,-- cutth1g the property tax speaks directly to the· issue of _
. economic development and job creation.. Everyone agrees that in Connecticut, small businesses
· · v.ill be the job creators of the future (short and lQng-term). - Right now, the cost of doing
. business in Connecticut is just too high - reducing small .businesses' overhead .by almost 25%
would. give them a real s~ot in the ann ang allow them to do what they do best: create jobs.
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health care refonn plan' in Connecticut for 4 years· (FYI - the President is faniiliar with Curry's
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the business community, generate economic· development, and generate job creation. than ·
anything Rowland's proposed.
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OTHER SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES.
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.. Campaign finance reforrri - Curry has consistently. fought for lobbying reform and state'
'\VOrds "campaign finance rcfonn'' .haye never left Rowland's
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H'calth care reform - again, Curry. has proposed health care reform whicl;l would save
sn~all businesses upwards of $400 million; municipalities $60 million, and would push
Connecticut to universal coverage. Rowland, again, hasn't even mentioned the subject.
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Crime - Curry ha.S proposed adding 700 new police officers, most of whom Curry
. thinks. ought to be deployed in . community-based policing. . Curry supported the
President's ·crime bill. ·Rowland has tried to own .this issue from. the ''tough· guy''
perspective·. . Curry and Rowland agree on:
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Making death penalty easier to impose (by allowing aggravat~ng factors, as well .
mitigating factor~: to be weighed in the pecision-making process. '
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incidents in its prisons this year)~ 1 I,
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Rowland, however, has proposed ,a "two strik~~ and your out'! proposal, while Curry
thinks "three strikes and:your out" is more realistic (although he hasn't publicly stated '
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CRITICISMS QF ROWLAND
As a Congressman (CT's 5th Congressional District, 1984.,1990)-Rowland supported
· the. failed Republican supply-side· econorriic polici~s of
1980's. Now, he's r~-.
the
packaged_ supply-side economics and he's trying to sell it in Connecticut.. Jt failed us
then, it'll fail us now._
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After losing the I990 race for governor in Connecticut (by 2.8% to Lowell Weicker),
Ro;wland became a "consultant" for' the state;s largest defense manufacturers (Textron
.·Lycoming,· United Technologies). Durmg that .time, he earned ·close to $1. million for
activities which he will not disclose (he wasn't re~istered as a lobbyist, hut still won't,
disclose his actual· employment records).
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During the time he w~ 'working.
compruiies, and ea~ning altnosr $1- n1illi6rf,
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~n an ironic twist, Bob D()le was in to""" this week to sturnp for Rowland: Ho~~ nice
that the. man who prevented lobbying reform from. pa~sing in ·washington came to
Connecticut to snu:np for the candidate who spent the ,·fast 4 years as a lobbyist!'
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As a Congressman, Rowland ·"bounced" 108 · <:hecks, the most of any inember 'of
Connecticut's congressional. delegation .
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As a Congre-ssman, ·Rowland voted the "pro-life" agenda 14. consecutive times.;. Then,
3 days before he offiCially announced his,l.990 gubem<~torial caJldidacy, he changed his
mind, saying:
"I can't address a statewide race in the. same way I would as a federal legislator.·
You jlist can't do !}lat. I mean, you ·just can't get away witl~ it. . I (eel,
differently about abortion as a statewide candidate. My p6,sition hasn't changed,
but my vote did. Absolutely,"
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radically different positio_ns on gun cont'rol (he· supported· the original Brady bill, ~ow
he rails against gU.n control); he ha5 flopped o'n the income tax, and .he's alt_ernated
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POSITIVE TALKING POINTS FOR BILL CURRY
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Much like the President did in 1992, Curry has overcome several imposing obstacles
during this campaign season:
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. As the . "outsider," he was not the party-endorsed. candidate at our state
. convention.· Yet, despite all the party hierarchy lining up on the other side (with
·their endorsements, influence, and money), Curry was able to win the p.dm~,
55%-45%.
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carnpaigrt- based on vision, courage and n~al change.
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-CUrry is Connecticufs version of the "C01neback Kid." 3 weeks before the.
-'primary. election, we. trai~ed 'our opponent by more than 20 p:oints - w~ won' by '
10.
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In 1990~ the Democratic gubernatoriaJ nominee (fom1er. Congressn'l~ Bruce
Morrison) garnered just 20% ~·f1he vote in the general election - mostly becau5e .•
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Democratic. coalition gave much of its
support to Lowell
Wei~ker.
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Curry has managed to bring that coalition -- labor, minorities, old-guard,.·
prqgressives -- pack together, and it's obviously placed us' in aposition: to win~
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opponent • State Sen. John Larson. Larson,, by the way,- is one· of the honorary ·chairs of
Saturday's 'event. We would prefer that the President not refer-: to Curry's primary viCtory·
"over -Larson," but rather to. Curry's primary victory. In other words, yes, '-Ve're very proud
ofthe way we won the primary, but we'realso proud of the fact that we've managed to bring
Larson and his supporters back to the fold. ·So, we'd like the Presidtmt to emphasize Curry's
. ''comc-frorn-:behind,' stunning primary win," but not at the expense of Sen. Larson and/or those·,
who supported him (most of the party hierarchy supported him) ..·
The piece about Curry bringing the coalition back together is also· for background use.- -As I'm
- . sure you've figtire.d out by now, we're fighting the impression that Bill is a liberal, who's a
tool of lab.or ~and the minority community - so, please watch any references to the bringing
together of the "traditional" -- Le:, labor, minorities, liberals.-- Democratic base of support.
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Curry was ~lectcd Comptroller in_ 1990, despite being outspent by an almost 5 -to ,1
ratio. Prior to that, he served 2 terins in the State Senate (1978·1982). In 1982, he lo~i
_a very close race' for Congress to Na.'icy Johnsori (51.5%-48.5%).
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475,000
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Rowland retnai·ns f.ront-runne~, bttt faces obsta~les
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Brian .M. Baldwin
and Richard F._ J¥areing
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Whoever said Connecticut was the land of
steady habit~ wasn"ttalkinr, :~bout politics.~Just ask
John D. Lnrson. With the Rr.1mhlican and
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Democratic primal ir.s now O''er, the singe is set for :
:i knock-down, clrar,-oul brawl between no.lcss
I han four rnajor carulidates- U. Gov."Eunicc S.
Groatk, Slate Cornpltoller William E. Curry Jr.;
, ronncr Walr.thury Cnngrcss·rnan John G. Rowl:~nd
and radio ialkm:~slcr Tom Scott.
Rowland, whn has come out ahe:l(l in every
thrr.r.-w~y poll conchrc:led thus far, is uil<loubtedly
the (ront-runnr.r. Thr. former Hr.publican
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'conr,rcssman turned comullant':~lready has raised
:~bout $2 million :~nd still has about $1JOO,OOO left.
With this formichhle war chesi he will outspend
Cmry, Groark and Scott com hined In the next eight
weeks._
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Moreovr.r,.Howhnd h:is h:~d most of the
Republican esl~blishmr.nl marching-lock:slcp
·hchin~ him for mnnlhs. A• ~uch, mobili1.ing Iris
ha.•e of GOP parli"t1s.for Election Day should not
""tic niuch of_ a problem .. ·
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)\e~ding Into the_ sit etch, he still· faces obstaclr.s ..
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Foremost is th_c viability of his 38 rercent
·scenario. Howland supporters have worked to
convince Republicans thai if Howl;~nd can just hold
on to the JB percent of Ihr. vote he r,ot in 19!\0,-hr. ·
will be elr.ctccl. Allhour,h plausible, this scenario
has polenti:~t: pit falls.
First. while Rowland is Howl:~nd, Groark.is not
Lowell r. Wr.ickcr Jr. Even assuming Howland
holds onto hi~ Jfl prrcr.nl, Democrat Curry ~ill win·
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· c:111not m:~lte the s:~ri1e inromls into Curty's
if Groark fails to gr,t more than 2J percent of the
DemoCJ'i\tic base a~ Wr.icl1er did in IIJIJO, the rift'
vote. Given> the qualitative differ.encc between
between Curry's liher:tls :mel the p:~r1y rcgul:~rs
dnclidaleWcidter and candidate Groark, this Is a
b:~cklng L"lrson could resull in r.11ou,;h Elr.clion ·
O:~y d:~m~ge to thr. Democratic h:~c.c to'turn .real possibility. . 1
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Second. the_ 38 percent scenario is predicated.
T!owl:~nd's J8 percent scei1ario into "'·ccr.;•~-Similarly, Groru-11 hrinr,s both po~ilivr.s anti
on Rowland's capturing the entire Republicnn base.
Although he hns most or his party lined up behind
negatives. On_lhe plus side, Gro:uk, canir.s no
him, his sometimes nasty primary_·with Secretary of
. baggage. As such, she cnn·probnhly make some
he:~dway against Rowl:~nd hy pressing the_elhics
the Stole Pauline R. Kezer may have permanenUy ·
alienated at least some o[ her moderate supporters.·
·· issue. Also, with Rowe on licl1cl, Gro~rk can m:tke
some he:~dw:~y into Curry's ccnr. constil11r.ncy. ~
In ;t t:ght race, a loss of even a lew alienatedOn the minus side, Groark h:~s little money and
-moderate Republicans could be fatal. . · ·. ·
hos'shown no :~bilily to r:~isr. the kiJHI of ca.~h :
Third, Rowland's self-proclaimed "worst
needed for a last-minute medi:~ hlil7.. Also, her
nightm;~re" may pose a threilt to Rowland's right
cadre of independent voters is much smaller than
, nnnk. Scott Is likely to appe-al not only'lo
either Rowland's GOP base or Curry's ·or.mocratic.
disaffected ii•dependents, but al~o lo t:rard-core
conse~ativcs angered over Rowland's nip'nops on ·
b:~se. "-~such, she'll h:we to cover much niore
ground' to end up In thr. s:uite place. Fu.rthcr,the Income tnx and nbo1tion. t\ loss of three or four
_percentage points ·worth or conse~atives.to Scott's-Gro:~rk lacks Weicker's ch:~risma so shr. may find if
difficult to lure liher:~l.• nway from the Ocmocr:~tic
verbal barrages could be the difference .. -.. ·
c:~mp. While Gro:~ok c:uinot.be'takcn lightly; she
Finnlly;Howland carries political b:~ggage in
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Thus, _:~It hough Rowlnnd is out in front. a
and the r.lhical questions surrounding his murky
--the ACP ticket nlay cut into the traditional ·
Republican victory in Ncjvcrnbcr is hy no mrans
relationship.wilh various big companies as a
Democr:itic stranglehold on black voters ...
assured. If either Curiy. or Groark c~n. m:~l(e a·.
consult ani after the I 990 ca.mpaign.
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Like Rowland, however, Curry :~lso f:1<:es
strong mo,·e in the next three or four-weel1s, they
Moreover, a·s l{ezer showed during'the·
potentially significmii p~oblcms. First, in securing
may be able to overtakr. Row]:md.
.-primary, Rowland docs not always respond well
his primary victo_ry, Curry relied on an activist field.
This will he ·not br. easy fo1• r.ilhr.t' camllcla_tr..
when.confronted with these problems. Thus, there
org;~nization from the party's libcral.\ving. I lis
howevr.r, bcc:~uic ncith<ir c:~n comr. .close to , · ·
. ·exists the potential for Rowland'll'?l only lo br.
cmnpaign war chest was, ond remains, empty nnd it . :matching Rowl:~nd's war chest and br.c~ui;e hoth
damaged by an ntt:~ck on_ his charaCter, but also the
is unclear whether Curry can raise the money to
have signific:~nt elr.ctor;~lliahililir.~ thai ""'Y
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ch:~nce that his son•ctimc..~ volatile temper could
wage· an eflcctivc general election campaign.
prevent them from takinr, advantage or Rowland's
cause significanfcollatcml hann:
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Curry may ftnd it impossible lo close the . _own weaknesses. ·n,e·primary outcome still .. '
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Curry finds himself in an excellent position to·
ground between him and his Rr.publican opponent:
suggests that-the race is Rowl~nd's to l~se.
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cnpitallze on a Rowl:tnd implosion. I le comes orr ol
-Further, although Ro\vlaml is wc:~lt on the ethic.•
a stunning primary victory. Clearly, momentum is
issue, it is unclear whether Curry will even :~Hemp!
Brl:m M. D:oldwln iwd Rich~rd F. W"~"in~ ni:t
on his side. Further, Groark is not Weicker.
to make Rowl<i.nd the issue given Curry's high-road
R~Pttbljcan.anaiysL< imd lawyrrs 11•!rn pmclia in
. Therefore, Curry in:~y not face the same"threat to,
approach during the Oemocr:ilic primary.
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his De"mocralic Party base as did Dmce A. Morrison
Finally, although Groark and Rowe prohably
in l9!JO·, ~~~~H~ugh the presence ol Audrey Rowe on ·
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by a l11ghly paid Washington,
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HI\RTFORD [or John- 1-~r any signs larson was in trouble.
Still, Larson said Thursday that_
son, ii:S all over but lhe secondhe wouldn:t ha_ve changed his tclep,ucssinr,.
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Dcn1ocra1s inside -and outside .vision-intensLve, reach-out-to-allvoters strategy designed to win the
lhr. stale senalor's failed gubernaprimary'with enough money to go
lorial carn'poign say •slate Com pinto the general election.
or the state Senate and said he'd
I roller William E. Curry Jr. or Ear- · rni_np.ton won T:iesday's primary
"Dill played to his strength and like lo sell. his insurance business
_ with superior field organization, a we played to ·ours," Larson said lo his brothers and lry some_lhing
.labor-inlensive error! to idenlify- during a ·news · eonfere-nce at the else.
pro-Curry voters and get theri1 to Legislative Orfice Duildi ng. ~·1 - -lie said he'd consider -teaching
gelling
involved
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have no regrets; I wouldn't have.
IJ11t L~rson-_and some or his cl1:tnged the stralcgy whatsoever."· lie television or continuing to work
campaip,n orficials also cited a
L,rson said he wasn~l sure whaL with children and families.
Democratic stalc·ChairmaiJEdwavr.· or anti-L,r.~on voling among -he will do riexL lie is finishing his
stale·w?rkers angry at being denied ·1as1 term as president pro tempore ward MarCl(S said L~rson took a
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backed L.,rson during the priinary,
t-.-irircu~ s~id he thought L~rson ·
sh~JIIId ha-ve_ spent money on the·
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- the primary and then focused on
the general eleCtion.
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lo win !he playorr game to. play in
'the Super Dowl," Marcus said.
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-'brought out more pro-L~rson volers, bul it may not have cased the·
anger or slale workers ..
"I would say there is absolutely
no doubt that one significant rcason thai Johri larson lost is precisely because he is regarded as a
chier architect of the state budget
that did nor' include any raises for
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University i'rofcssors. "I kno1~
thai the anr.er or slat.; rmploycr~
was very real and vcry.•lccply kit.'~
D~vid McQuade. L,~rson's chic(
aide in the slale Senale and a top
campaign adv.iscr, said union rc;
senlmcril toward Larson was pafl
Of a bro:tdrr p:tltC111 or Vl>fer diS·
satisraction with all po.liliol and
1\0vernmcntal insiders:
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argued, "We wo.uld havr had to
·crcale a dirrercnl kii1d of John L~r:
·son, to run him as an oulsidcr :.. :
anti I don't lhink we could have
done that."
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Vance- School before dawn
Curry told voters C.".at llle n~
and concerns ol Connecticut's
cities'-: ~iaJiy :-l~w BriULR
- ·.would :,e his ~rtority as
governor.
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:--.r:w am AC'-1 REAcnON',
nus c:ry, ~a-Mg his!orially
:-- case a polcical shadow ovor
Cur-r-)''s own Farmington, was
one ot ~~e rr:ost i::cer=ing pri·
• mary battle grounds. John L:lr·
son had b~~n ent~usiastically
·supported here :,y retiring
-State Sen. Joseph Ha..,er and
former ~taycir Donald Det'ron·
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--BILL CURRY IS CONGRATUlATID BY JOHN.I.ARSON IN HARTFORD lAST NIGHT
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"The old ~Utica! debate Is at Curry's campaign hesdquar· · Scott'as Republicans by an·
MI!AAI.D AI!I'<JilTI!R
dead," Curry said to hundreds ters at the Hartford Sheraton. other name Is still uncertain.
ol· campaign worken and SUI>" ·They said that they had run a But Curry saJd tJ\at the change
Bill Curry told supporters porten as. poU results snowed . model campaign. n<:Ver smear· he represents, well after elec·
· -throughout IlLs campaign that to he was sweeping past his prt- ing each other's names, and tions in 1000 and 1994 proDllSIIlg
get elected governor he first IDMY owonett 't1y a tw~t()o<)lle had tirelessly debated the Is· the same, wtll <113tlngulsh himwould have to challenge -!be or· margin In some towns. "The sues.
self !rom his oppcnents.·
thodoxy of his party.
new politics meets the anger · · Democrats claim that Cur·
"This isn't about a return to
But within the last_ 24 hours and frUstration that people ted • . ry's posiCion bean a st:r0n3 con- po.;..er; It's about a return_to ·
Curry Cound himself carrytng In the next eight weeks, I wtll tr.ut to that o( Rowland. whose principle. We're the ones _wtth
. his party's banner. He has show the ~le or this state a successful defense against an agenda on the .table. We
quickly maved from the role .of -blueprint lor cban3e whlch.ad~.:. Plalnvtlle cllallenger Pauline -want ·to_ heal the cities and fix
challenger to a symbol of Demo . dresSeS their anger." ·
iCe:zer has come closer to spUt· . our t\nances the way the~~
ocntlc tiO\)I! to~ tbe e&P:'
Curry, a Farmington res!· Ung the GOP than their own cratic Party did ln_lt_s glory
itol alter lour yean.
. dent, swept past Democratic:~ party. ·
days, by going netghbor to
No stranger to the Inner, endorsed John Larson In yes·And. perhaps It wu the de-· neighbor," Curry said.
wor!tings or K<ford. the state te!11ay's sate primarY. He now leated I...ar.;on who best set the
Curry ~~~an his lu.t day of
controller SIUd he hopes that b.1s ~the tas1t of dl.st!nguish.lng tone for Curry's. next eight primary campaigning yester·
· oWll brand of Nouveau Politi· . hlmselt !rom the Impressive week3: The race pits one Oem- day in New Britain, a city_ In
que- Indeed. .the brand he be- campaign purse of Re?'Jbllcan . oc:rat against three Republl· which he said he, has spent
Ueve:s is re:spon.51ble !or hLs W1l1 John Rowland, his next oppo-( cans.; he said to the crowd. ·
more time than any other but
yesterday- w\11 continue to nent, much til the credit or I.ar. Wbether Con~tic:ut voten his hometoWn. Standing out.s)de
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John Rowland.
So Curry's significant. ·.win
could very well ~ ~ sign that
local Oemocr:Hs reflect a statewide mindset. Change in their
· ,.. govemment. after lour years ot ·~.promises to do much of the
;: same, wout'd only come with
the st~te controller !rom Farm·
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'"Barbara Klrejc:yk attended
:-last night's rally at Curry he3d·
;: quarters and echoed rriuch of
• the same mentality: That d~
···spite the support of prominent
--political riames in the city,
, Democrats voted from the
heart.
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•:·liance in New_ Britain with tar·
·-son. H:~r.,er. and Defronzo, so
.. they ex-pected to. take the city.
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·'·saying that they want true·
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Upset Vict-ory
In Conne~ticut
ny·.J ONATJIAN IIA IIINOVITZ
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IIAR'i'FOHIJ, Srpl. 13- .\VIIIIom E.
Curry Jr., n lonr,llme cilllc ol thr.
t>~rnor.rnt.le Je:~dcrshlp.lhnllms dom· ·
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lnnlc'd Connr.dlcul rlovernment' lnr
decodes, today wrested lhP.. pnrly's
notnf!lOiion fot'_r,llvernor from one of
lis stnlwnrts, the lender olthe Stnlr.
Scnnre: John ll. I.nrr,on.
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On the ·nepuhllcnn side, John Howland, n tor mer Conr,ressmnn who wns
the p:~rly's c'nndldnte·tor r,overnor In·
19901 r'csoundlnr,ly delrnted Seer!'·
lory ol thr. Stole l'ni•ilnP. n. l<incr, n~
:expected, to grtln·"lhe · hlr, pnrt.v'r,
nomlnr1'tlnn h)r ~vr:rnor.
The re~ull setup 11 st:nk ldeolor,lcnl
hntllc over lnxcs lor -the November
. r.lecllon between Mr. nowlnnd, who
,; hn~ pledr,ed to repeal the slnle's\
: lhrec-yenr-old Income lnx, nml Mr.
;·Curry, who supports It nml ln~tcnd
; vows lo cut pr'operty l:~xe~. which he
. ~ny~·nre morr rrr,resr,lve.
The Income lnx wns lnltlnted under
Gov. Lo\vcll i>. Wcklti:~r Jr., n lonncr ·
ncpubllr.:\n wh~ wns elected ns ntl ·
Independent tour years ng11 nnd who
I~ nol scrldnr, re-cletti(Jn. In 1000, Mr.
Welclter bnrcly edr.eJ out Mr. Hnwl:md.
In- nn lntervl~w thl~ c.v<:,nlnr. ns he
w:~tchcd Ihe 'ierunis comltir, nl his
c:11npalgn cclcurnllon at the Shcrnton
lintel In ll:~rtlord, ML Curry ~nhl,
"There I~ n new politics slrur,r:llnnto
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Mr. ltowland·~ vi<:l<ll'l' r·.h·•·~ hirn a
., r.('t:IIIHI rham:r. In win ri ... :,~11\'!'111111'·~
. ullin: :illrr lu~inr: lnur y••nrr. agnl;y 7
1 prrcenl:~r:c point c. to Mr. \\'drlH'I.
Ami 11'-~cls him np a~ the lnolll·
nunwr In n · t:mr:lc<l lnnr-w:oy ran
thnl lnd111les Mr. Cuny; l.icul. f:nv.
Eu11h'c S. (;ronrlt, who r.ucrrrtlc. l\1r
Wrh:ltcr 11~ ""' l::uulldnte ol A Cnn·
·ncc:lkut P:~rtv, ·nn<l n· lnnnrr Stare·
Sr:n:1tor,
Ton\ Scoll. iln cvr.n IUOIT
Crinl inucrl FI'OIII Pnr.e A I
COII!<rrvntlvi, nnll'lllX
H<:r'111hlic·;,j,
:than Mr. Huwla11cl who I~ n11111in1: :i~
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1\lr. llnwlancl hacl r.n I~~'"'''"' t<> ~I·;_
trusrrnllon tlml pcnple tccl.
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. f{('7.er's n percent, li•lth ·f!l pc'n:r.nl "'
· Tmlfly's vkto1·y wns n stunninn np·
'the votes nnmtecl.
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sctloi· Mr. Curry,lhr. Stnt~ ComptruL
: In uthcr.rnce~. Dr. {:nahl;l.ahdnla,
ler, thai , lew expected. n yenr nr,c
; n rrtlrcrl pcdialt lcian :nultl11' H•:pllh1
. llc:111 1':11 rv-c:ndnr~<:cl r:uull<lat<· ln1
wh"n he hcr,an hlr. cn.mrmlr,nln .hrlnr
: Senaf<'. il<-i,·al!·;l hi~ c:h:~fh·nr:rr. l>o:
. :'hll)clnmentnl ·t:hanr,c" to _the pnrl}.-Jo~l'ph llt:nth••·r:na. :tll·uphlltalonnl•;
:~n<l it~. stale r,ovcrnmcnl. Mr. l.nrson
·. r,i~;l· who nppn~c·~ ·rht: clr:oth pc·n:tlly
the stntl!'s lhh:d-hlt:hest nlliclal ~~~~!
; :u1d. l:worr. <li:;l"'"~'"'~ clil111rd dr111:~
. the pnrly's endorsed· cnndicifltri, Is n
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popular Or.mocrntlc lrndr.r- who onl}
\:rntr1plr.c" ~I I\ hi
a month ar.o hnd n-:-7.-to-1 lefld In lh!_
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l>r. l.:obdnla hac. mad;• r:tlntt:•lr•.n
polls ·or rcr.lslr.rcd D~mnnnl~_. '
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tln:lllre rdnnn· a n·ntr1 pi<-re 11f hi~
. Hut Mr. .Ctirry, whoc.c hnsc Is the
hhl lor olll<:r; :111cl "" nnw _lnr<'~ tlw
llhcrnl wlnr. ol the Demm:rallr. Pm·ty~
llncomlwnt, ·senator J1is(·1•h I. l.klt•:, .
, l n<'v<'r ;~ppcnrctl to !:~Iter In hls,hellrl
'n1"1l· whO h:1!; a wur- chr.!'t or $~.1
i lhnt voters w;~ntcd someone out~lcl!
million, mm·t· 'than JO tilll<:c. flw """'i lhl! p:orly hler:nrchy to ~h:~k~ thlnr,!
.hlned :~oncnmt .. llr. l.ahriola :11nl ll<.
I ,up. In response In Mr. l.:~rson's pro· ·
llr:nfiver.na h:itl rnlr.rtl.
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posal to cui the lncmnc tax hy 2~ .
In lhr. Filth Ct111r,rr~r.iunal Dir,trict,
.. percent, Mr. Curry ~nld II wns slor.'ln·
1 St:~le Senator Jnnws II. Maloney. flw
ecrlnr. on J' well-worn Issue nnd In·
pnrly-endor~r:d i.-andi<l:•lr:~ t'ritllntihl·d
r,tr:id r.h:mr.ctl the tor.u~ ol the tlch;~l!
ovrr r~ccnsaliun~ thai he hacl nol paid
uy proposlnr, n $I billion cui in the
t:~xc~ :m<i wa~ :111 nld-thne IJr.nwcr:ol·
properly t;~x.
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!r. lnsltl<,r, rlrl<:atlnr. hic. i·h:~lh·nr:•·r,
And lnr months; Mr. Curry ronn,n·
Tlunn:~r, S, l.11hy, .the <na_forlly lc-:nl•·•
rr~lc<l on mehlinr: n coalitlnn nl.
- In the Sial<! 11<111~;(! nl Ht•tiiT~;<·nt:ounions, ell i7.cns' r,ri111ps nml environ·
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mcnt:il r,roup~ Into n cnn•palr,n lleld
Mr. 1\taluiH:\' wlllnrxl lrl' 111nnr,r·at
oq~anlwlhtn, whllr Mr. l.nr~on lo'
the two-tenn. innm1hcnt,· (;,, y A.
cnscd on ·ulnnk~llng the nlrw;~vc!
Frnukr,, a Rrpuhllc-:~n .. ll would'"' thr
with telcvlsltin commrn:i;•ls.
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lh ..~l Dt•moc.r:>lic vir.lllrl' In thir, tii:;Todr~y, II nppe:>rctl· thai Mr. Curtrid,
which lnchnlrr, Wair:rhnrv, ~1<:<
·ry's dl~tlnctlvc mes~DI:e r~ml supcrlm
ldr:n :11111 pnrtr, ol Falrlirhi i:onnlr.
dl(n't II• r.el out the ''nlr hr~d provided
r,lnce I!JM.
him with his victory. With ~9 percent
nl the vote r.m•nlr;l, Mr. C\11'1 y h;~d
rci:clvrcl'~>!l pr.rcr:n.l ol the yt1tc to
. Larr,on's -11 prt-ccnl.,
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lumoul In holh prim;orics
ilhou·l 115,000 llcpuhlic;on~ nnd
I G!l,OOII Democrnl~ volr.d - · ;op'
pr oaclrcd ;!~ percenl ul clir,ihlc voters lor e:~ch p:~rly.
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Any douhl~ th:it Rowlnnd w·ould .
cnish l<eT.er were dispelled_ wilhln
mlnulcs ol lhe 1"'11~' closing nt 8
p.m. II h10lt 011 y !II minutes lor
l<e1.er, who· -hml rim :in ngr,rcsslve
hut under lundcol c;omp;olgn, In con·
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Soon nllcrw;ml, Rowl;ond spolte ·
lo his supporter's nl Ihe Shernlon in
.. Wnter!11rry, lr.lling lhem, "I .nm
dci:\•ly, olccply hnnofcd lo ollidnlly
hr. l or. Hcpulrlicnn rromlnce lor r,overnor.-"
I le s;oiol he lmd Just spolten lo
l<e1.er, nnd she hnd ollered her suppori. ·
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The Hrpuhlknns, he snlol, .hnvelo
"m:~lte ~me the volcr!'; or lhe st;ote
nrc ·not fooled nr,:~in lllte Ihey were·
lour yenrs ngo." I b cnlled for lc~~
r.;nvcrnmr.nl nnd fewer rer,tilnlions, ·
. ami reilernted hi~ Intent to elimi'
n:~te the stnte income lnx ovcr.livc .
.' ye;ors. To Democrats, especi;olly
modcr;otcs, he snid: "II clio nml 'velcunu~."
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lime:"
Aslted il there wns n role for l<c1.er
lnl\i~ ndniinislrnlion, Rowlnnd s;oid,
"You'd hr.llcr believe il."
'L:~Ier, · Howlnnd snid he wns
plensccl lo he runnlnr, nr,ninst Curry, nnd ~nid he would liltc lltere lobe
lhrr.r. tlr.h;-olr.s.
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.llr.lo.re Hmvlnntlloolt I he singe In
W:~lerburv, · l{r.7.r.r wni; consollnr,
her supporters in Soullrinr;ton wilh
these wurtls: "lltnow.lhc·rcsulls nrc
not wh:~l we wnnted.tonlr,ht, but we
hnvc C!lllle so lnr. We were In lhis
rncc In win it, hul illh:~l'~ nnl lhc
c;ose, I s;thl we would r,o lurwnrd :IS
-the uniled ltr.puhlic:~n P;or:ly_·- ;-ond
ll1alwr.will."
She lnld ~upporler~ she lms no
rcr,rr.t~. ;ond tlmnlted them lor Iheir
help.
--;-o;We worlte\i ;~ ~ l.t'n;;;~W~ cared
nhout each _olher. You nil r.:ucd
nhoul me nnd lthnnh you-homlhr. .
boll om ol my henri." ·
Aslted n!lOul, her·p_lan~ when ~hr.
leave~ olhce rn .lnrnmry, she replied: "I don't Jmow wlu1t Ihe lulure
holds· hut the lulurc hns nlwoys ·
. lv:ld ;,.,o·mlerful thinr,s for 1':-~uline
l<,.zer and her family."
it loolt slighlly lo-nger, lhour,h nol
'much lonr.;cr, lor clarily .In sr.lllc ·
over ;1 ncmocrn11c race lhn1 the experf~ sniol would he Iouch nmt r,o for
nl lens! n few hours. ._
The predicted lur,·ol wnr never
n1ntr.ri;-oll7.cd, de~plte stale Sen.
-George .lep~cn·~ srnnll dos_c ol r;ood
news from Slnmlonl. 1 he enrly
nornhers had l.:trson winnin1~. 111
·to 20.
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"We'll ialte lhnl.ll's o r,ood hrr,in- .
nlnr,." s~hl Mnry Phil Gt_ilnnn, n fur- ·
mer llorllord Dr.mocrnlic town
, chnirwoman.nnd L~r~on supporter.
!Jut in wh:~t wns pcrhnps n foreshnd~wint: ol lmpr.rulinr, dis:~ster,
l:.nrson's slnlf lossed reporlers I rom
his he!'dqu;orters os Ihe voles hCf:an
drihblinr, in. The first numbers were
.posted nl 'l:JO. The cnnditl;-olr., who
hml lnld reporlcrs hr. ~oultl nrrive
:11 th;-ol time, was nowhere lo hr.
seen.
L'lrson spnl1c briefly lo Ihe pre~~
al I 0 p~m., outside his llcndqtmrters
nt l'o\mders Pln1.:i'in Ensl llartfonl,
~nyinr, h~ wanled to lc:IVe quick_ly hi
· conr,ralulalc Curry.
''I'm r,oing nor only In congmtu. late hutto e~ti.lorse him. The IJemo·
crnt's ;ore r,oing to be unilcd," L,'lrson s;oid. "Uill Curry was an
oulslnndinr, opponenl. II w;os an .
honor to dehnlc him. II wns :tn hon·
·or In t.r.·oq lhc snn1r. plnylnr: fio~lcl.
I'm conlidcnrwc'U he logcthcr :tnd
.win in November."
Shorlly nflcr lit;-~ I, IA~rson nrrived
nt the Sherntoi1 in_Jinrlfonl :where
Curry nnd hundreds ol soppmlr.rs
r.nclted n. slr.nmy b:~llroon~. . ·
Midwny lhrnuJ~h Cur~y s vtclor-y
speech, Lmson, In nn tlllliSU:1IIy
concilialory r,esturc,_ w:11lcd
lhrou1•h Ihe crowd nnd joinr.d Corry
on slacc where the lwo rivnls em.
brnr.cd:
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"llhinl<.thc choice is dcnr in lhi.~
c;omp•lir.n:" l~'lrso~ ~aid. "ll's three
.Hr.p~.hl1cans nr;;omst_ one Demoern!. 1,_
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Cuhy. 1 .,1umed f!1" o:utnplitn.,lll~.
. coin'lf out :01 hi~ \"ny to pr~isc I m. son, pr;oisrnr, lum lor nmmnr: wlml
CurrY, en lied nn : "hn~:ornhlr. nml
· ~ubsthnllve c:ampnlr,n. .
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Turnlnr, lo the crowd, Cun-y snid;
"You nmdc history lonit;hl. Thi~
(c;ornpnir,nll~.n·t. ououl n relurn to
power .. (lu~ rs nhoul n relurn' lo
principle~."
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. Mennwhilc,llric.lgeporl Mnyor Jo.· ~cph fl. G;onirn- who wonlhe pnrty
nominal ion lor lieulenn.nl govemor
- snlc.l Tucsd;oy nir:ht hr. hnd r,rnwn
-close to •~~i·son and his family, hut
could work jus I ns eo mimi nhly wil h
C~~t"l,~ve a-gre11t ;omount ol rcs~r.ct
lor. Bill Cmry," he salol. "II \\'as ;on
. oulslnndinr, cnmpair,n,n clrnn cnmp;oir,n."
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: Dcmoi:rallc Slnle Clmirrnnn Eol-wnrcl L. ,..,.:ucus, who hnd.lmdtr.d ·
l.nrson'nruhrrr,r.d Curry In drup hi~
chnllr.nr:e, plr.ciJ:r.d his s11ppnrl
Tuesd;oy nir,hl.
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".!Jill wont he primnr-y. We'll nil r,o
lo worlt for him sla1lin1: lmnnrruw
nHII"illnr,."
llop&<;otching nnd jitters
l'or the r,uhernalori;ol camlic~ales,
Tuesday was n day lil1e m~st ·~thers
recently, r.l!cr.pl for lh;. mcvrtnhle
. hop~colching I rom pnllm[: pl:~ce In
pollinr, pl;ocr., nnd ~~·e excn~ahle
cnse ol Primary D:tyj1llcrs.
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Curry's _ll;orllonl .hcndquatlcrs
was humming wilh nclivity M lir.ld.
orr•:~ni1.ers screamed instruct inn~ lo
volunteers in ~ntellile olfjcc~
around the sl:tle ;-om I st'nflcr~ hunled
-. up tmu~e!llclcphones.
. Uelween 500 ;-ond r.oo tch'phone~
. in G7 loc;otion~ werr. going Vlrlunlly_
nonstop, ~n id ~polccsnmn Hoy Oc- .
chinr,ror.~o.
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. Chorcor,r,;-ophinr; the lel_rphnne
;oclivilics allhe Curry nerve ccnlr.r
on l'nrrninr:ton ·Avenue \vns pony- .
lniled l'elcr Tercynlt, n wlurl nf
movement who c:~joled nnc.l
psyched up thr. ln10ps: ·,
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''rtoclt nn," hr. said overlhc phone
to one opr.mli\'e. "Goll'ir,ht! Win!"
Jrrcynlt ~rcmr.c.l fnre\'f~r "·' se~rr.h
of ;t 5p:1rC leJephnne IO Jl:111' With n
volunteer. Wilhoul rnissinr, ;o br.nl,
. he lmncilln nuothcr lichl cnordin;o."
tor: "Jley, .Eric, how·~ it r,oinr:? ·
Worl1 'ern h:~rd, worlt' em hard."
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tlarllonl, l'vlnynr Hnlll'rl M .. p.,( .'t ··~
cr.n7.o lnnl\ Ihr. day ullin r:nnpnit:u
lor Lnrsun, who ha~ 1rp1 ,.,.,_~nll:~ll hr.
tuwn In the ~lnlr. Sc,.uitr., nn !111~
I own cl11mr.il or on the sd10nl hna1 ol
sinr.e l!l7R.
. While-his· nllics we1 r. rninolinr; Ihr.
slnrr. In E:-or.l 11;-orllnnl; l.msnn lonl\
oil lor lhe slnlr.;s llc~nu•nalic
: stronr,hnhls, c:-omp;-oigninr, nn'n in
nrm wilh lhe. mayors ;omt pall)'
pooh:t,hs in M;onchr.stcr. N~w
IJrii;"Jin, Nr.w llavr.n. ll:~1lfonl. t-lld·
dlr.lnwn ;-ttHI W;"Jieohury. AI :.1:·1~.
tm.,inr, tlon•~ ;oil lhnl ho' ~ould. I~"
hr.nolcd up to rr.l;ox with wtlc l.~c.h".
nnd his two d;'llfl:hlcrs.
Hnwl:unl ~pr.n1 paol nl hi<. ''"·''
trn,•dinr: :HOIIIHI llu: ~lal!', ·h•·l:iuninr, in Milford with n hn:"'""''.
me1~tin1:- llr.· vnled nl II ;-o.m. a1 lh"
.I.W. Tirihcr Srhnul in \V!olo·tlnny .
when• hr. Inter rr.aol In a hindN·
i·1:ndr.u clns~. llr. l~lc~r ·p111p:oir:n·,.,,
111 NcwlnJ:1on nnd ltHr:lngh~n. c:~p·.
pinr, oil hi~_d:~y h)• lal""i: In~ 1111 ""
· \ chlltlr!'n In tlinnrr.
\Jp aml.mtl cat I)', l(o•t.l'r :oppo~:~u·d
nl ;'I 7 n.m. lnnnn spnn~nrr.tl hy tlu~
· (:o111nnl nntllhr.ntnolo qur,lions lnr
· ·;~o minutr.s nn \VriC:. r :ulin, whifh
hml IIICVinu~ly cnclorS{'tf hn lot~f:·
~hot cnmlict:~t:y. From lhr. slmiiiJ.
she swunr: over lo her C:~pilol of-·
lice, where ~he ~ir,nrd snm~ .,r.-clinns-relah:d p:~pcrs .
Thr. only other mn~t-olo ito·m ""
her chr.cldisl wn~ l'nlinr,. 011111 ~he·
1lid so sho•tly nflf'r 10::10 :1.m. ~l.thl'
Linden Slrecl School in l'l:~itJI'ilk. a
· nc:-~1-hricl\ huilolinr, on a·qui~l ~1re•:1
: of nooolc,1 ... hunr,atnw' a111l r:atW·
' slylr. h11mo's.
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~ ·A cluster of f;omilr m~mtwo s and
1- lrir.nols wnvcd l{c7.rr h•r c; .. v.,rnon·
' pl:~c:~rds· nndchccrr•l ;-o:: I~~~~ 'l';)'ti•~" ·
hum hr.r car. "Thanl1.~ l<11h, .. "lu:
·hcnnlccl, n~ lhn'tu:nl ln.ld':oi r:u:h nl''
·her jlrnnolchildrcn, nn'. o:nring
whether il wnulclw1hthlr hrr '"'~·
cntor!'ol ~,-,j( orsnwar hrr m:~loc·np.
·--Cnlllr11tl Sl11(( ll'11'1n~ Crni~: llu)!p•ll.
/tlnllltr'ti•IJ.rl'r. /1n11 l/ru11; S"-'"" /(tu.<mnll '""" (rui•r nll.t·fll,/t l'nnti"l"'·'
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�W•t•rOury, Conneoctlcvt
Wedne:sday
S•pt•mb~ 14, 199-4
St~·District
_1Vlaloney to face Franks in
ItS Curr vs. Rowland
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Democratic
voters reje<::t
The candidates
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ay· Jennifer Heldt
Here·s fist of matc/lups
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Nov.
following
Tuesday's primary vole.
and c·hriatophet J. Feola
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HARTFORD - ll<mocrat Bill
Curry sur'l'~ the oarty' ntabllsl'tmenc and 'natched ·his ~:~uty·s &U·
brematanal nomtnauon rrom en·
do~ candidate John l..l~n in a·
dose orimary Tur1day ..
' Re9Ublic1N Cl'lose frontrunner
John Rowland ov~ ci\allrncer Pau•
line Kezor by a Z to I mltlJn: 16.4:1:1.
to J6.i8.. ac presstimc. "'''" aoo o(
a12 preoncu reoorunc. The Row·
land ami) did almost u much eel~
bnunc over the Curry's v1ctorr,'
ny•ni itpres..,ud a ctcu cnoiee btl Weoen Lhe liben.l Curry .and the con:
servativt Rnwtand.. ~n is';, con·
str"''&tin Ocmocru.
, Curry, 4%. daimed victory shortly ·
.alter 10 p.m. sonic in~ to an entnusa·
uuc l.tf1e crowd ~t t~t Hartfo[d.
Sheraton. With 716 OC 8l2 :m:dncu .
r!PQrt.lftS. Currt was lndin18.C.8J7
to ~o.619a< press umo.
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~oney
ha_ve tht_
and you didn't have
. the teltvtSion ~vtruscment ~nd
·, you w_ouldn't ;.ttack your opponent.
lthea rou · couida·c •i"- Thac's
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D -Democrat
R - Republican
Governor
Eunice Groarlc-A ·
Winiam Curry-()
John ROwtand-R
U.S. Senate
Joseph Ueberman-0
Gerald Labtiola-R
Congress!Sth Oist.
Gary FrankS·R
James Malonll'(-0
Lt~ Governor-
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Joe Ganim-0
..!Odl Reii-R
Sec. ol State
Miles S. Raaopon-0
Andrea M. Scort·R·
31st Senate
wron'-..
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t..uson, senate prrSidenc pro ttmpore. ~~'le CulT'T I rMOUftGU\< fftoo
do~c a.nd promrWG to wortc ror
a Oem0crauc victory. Curry wttl run
Thomas Coiaoiatro-0
Daniel F. Hur1ey·R
. 71sl House
·.wi!J\ Btidte,ntt .\fa)-or Jos.toft Ci\n•
cti'otct for liruten&nc
1m,
t..uson·,
Raben Davi~O
Phiiia Giordano-R ·
&D~I!mor.
· etmocrau hOQrt tnac ~!'It stronc
irwroou of1an•z:wan th~t hel~
CurTJ beac tll.t Qdds and win na•nSc
(...uson wdl CVT'Y !'lim to ¥tctoi-y
, Rtpubllca~t JfJivt Ro~~tlaruJ.
CDGD<I
74th House
a(a1nst a larJt iield of ,uoemato_nal
canaidates in ~ov~Ofr.
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~owland a.nd .Curry •111 taliil an
L:. Gc•. C::un•ct Groark or A Conntctlcut Patty, Joseoft l.donayi: or
tilt Concerned Citi:tM ~arty and·
;>tUtioc:un' cndirb.te T.:~m Scott or
. U\t lndepondena I'U<T. ,
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Rowtantt. :mmeGiatelr ltt.acktd
C""'rrr:s pl~t(onn.
"CurT'! by his own Jdmis.sion is a
::~ral. ~.,.he says l'\t -anu to cut
:uu a.nd cue st)endinc.·· u1d Row•
!anci "He t'l&.s a crec•o•lity ~·ae.~owland potnttd out t!'l:lt l'le r3ft
l~iUMt ano,hl!r :i~ni four jun
to 1upport~n a)~~ TU.udav'• prim?"' ol~lory ooel" Paulin• 1\~;u.
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?zul D. Angelo-A
Michael J. JatJUra-0
75th House
Jonn F. Afsepn Jr>R
T:homas F. Conway-0
CurrT tnlittt Unon tn rund
010W uut the onmat')' is (u.·•r.
j~(U\13.j,d'S ('noctt (l')f' litull"ftotnt.
;oq•rnnr. Jndi R~l. ~ef~trd d:<1l·
itnter JoJe ftucri ia a race th:tt m1r·
,"Y)f'f'j ~er runnint matts. Rcil. ~
W•idu:r .Jr ..
,..no· narro•·ly Cehatfd. ;tow land.
'"'d Rowiand. abo sa•d hr
7U a,.auuc hi~~cr tu:u; 14.1u.st an
:nct"Jru~ Ul .and in~tMed tn c·ut
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in lint! tn Ur·
_eJtf''! t:"e non~ lc!tde'r o{ hrr r:~.rt~·~~~~:;d•.up th~ :~:t:~.n_c~ tft "'"·\,.It:'!
:uacn ~CIIt:\'e :~~
:to,..l:~nd. !u.s ll')ti ;U o::anriul!lt"
'.WI(,, (t:t:tl f.1i.CU~(.
;;e t'l.u r.:u.scrt mor~ ~!"an$'! mtilinn.
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i\ctl. t8; !'t:u ~n
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Jn •u way to t!".e ;o\·~~::.or s s~·:tt lor .
:::e first time tn two oe-:1r.;es.
:~ tl'll! Of'il~ ~nil
A~IC·
CJnun
~., 3:.611 :u prn'·
nr ~t'! r'rt:t1nct, ~·
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"T!':en he imrMdiaU:I~ :-~vcncd
:-:ir.ueif .after t~e eiKtlon.·· itnw.·iand
~epubliClR
rat~·
:n~- £~4.100 to 11.-4 ~!Ilion. Cur· . ·
f"'! is e:tOf'(ttd let nu~ mnr~ monr.r
.._...~,deer,
!ltd.
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Stories, results,
party clioice
~c~::-e-J pc11i;,i.nC::m '"';••,.:-.u1
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or:o1a. ci S:tutJ.turil:. u~Jiy ~""" U:e
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�COV.I:R
By Paul Bass
Bill Curry & . . .
NeW Politics
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·Challenger's upset ·victory showed Connectieut
Democrats are intent. on -an independent revolution,·.
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�POLITICS
yea-.,
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nc:w4yle ~gn folloo.o.'5 yean ol building political indo-. . Ueutcnanl Govtm::Y Eunice Groorl. v.ta;c unchallmged pany-a-.dooed i_ndc:
pmdencc. bah in ~ and nationally., Considir.lhal:
. , pendent candidacy fcc goycmor has bcc:n ovmhadov.'Cd in r=nt Weeks by~
majcr-paty ~- She mentions Connccticut's tndition of in~ like
• Unaffilialtd ~ v.ho n:fuse 10 registei v.ilh an established
~ coaon gin and ~Colt rcvolw:r. And, she adds, "'ConncdiaJt has bcc:n willpany---ce ~ -~ bloc in lhc stale, v.ith al!TlC61 200,(XXJ m:re peo- ing to Lakt a ri.~ on women." The state elccttd two wonrn to Congress in the
pic !han !he Rq>.lblicans and only 35,1XXJ behind the Oano.;rats, And !he unaf19405 al a tim: when few staLeS !he size of Connecticut coold e1o:t eva1 onC.
fi]ialedo; In: ~ only AgniflC&Illly growing group ol rcgisiac:d VO(cn, Thcir
she p:Jints out The Slate also boasts the coontry'a tim MJUlarly elci:ttd rC:rnale
ranb ·have gJUWU 15 pc=nl_ since 1989, acarding to figures· from the
govemcc, Ella GnlssO. Groan:. docs 1101 have to &ay-tha! her own tickd fits !hal
_Sccn:tary ol the 51ale'5 offJCe. RqWiican &nd Dcnocratic rolls have il:rnaincd
indc:pmdau-miOOed mold: she and her runnirig male, Audrey Rowe. woold be
lil8gNml Also, miner parties have basically douthe tim tw~rwoman tickct in Coona:ticut 's hiSII>
. bled !heir matilcrship rolls and the A Connecticut
ry 10 win if they top
polls in November.
Party lila cane info its own. (These last figures~
bs significant because aD told.we're taDcing alxu
~ the ~ of !he old party
. • tccaJ ol3,686 ~1M ell .II$ millioa.)
- Democ~ts
machines has bcai inmuclive. e&pecial• AD YOia'l bave. oonsisleody crossed party
d.
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ly from IllY ~ point ou1Side the
linea in doctina mixed lickds.ID ~ 1990 dcdioll.
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cloista:m! 1111.e capilol "Mddine" can be a dccq>~ ~ dcdiod Ill ir¥kpaldm goYCIDOf, I
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· liYe tam; III)'ODC nmning fa oflioe builds _I
Dcmoalllic IIIOOic)' pen~. llld • Rqlublican
IIIIIChiDc. By nisin& men: !han S4 miJiioii.IDOii1ly
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Last week Connecticufs '
in effect
ecfared
th
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pen-. .
de_nce from olq-fashionedsc:crelay ollbc lllalc--llld aot mc:rc indcpmdcul
party_
mach'1nes, s'1gnall1'n·g .· paign
from cstablishcd special int=s~s. Clrly.in • cam~ a I rrsJk. Ill 1993, Hrioo! dcdiod
with DO real opponent. Sen. Joe Ucb:rmaD
indepcodcol-pany mayor, wbilc dlird panica. ·
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has p'OYCd tiS yesr 1bat be_nms lbc lll05ll'ami. fiddcd men: c:andidKs !han ew:r in IIWIIidpl1 .
· a s ift away from the
dable dccunl machine in_lbc state. similarty,lbc .
clcctiom lbuughout ~ statc. Slae law did ~Way·
tatu S quo that .IS "annHnachinc"
faa:a lbal Cuny bas paldlccl
wilh ~ party ~ew:r ~ as i1 was llllllt:rin& 1ea
pol'ti-'cal
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ll>gdhl:r in his CIIJ11lllign
by dcfinitioo. a new,
thaD cwr.
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th
altanalive machine in llld ollhcmiciYI:&
•I'OOiiciaos bave ~ pidrd up from
., ca
lng on across e
- 1bc lam has axne 10 signify~ lr8diliooal.
_ ~ lbc- lhat _lbey do 1101
about party
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country
urban-based octv.ut_ c:1 pany officials, dc:acd ·
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·labels. This is c:spcciaily 11\lC in suburt5, wlxre lbc
fas1cst JX¥I1alion growlb has ocam:d.
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· '"The owrMldming pc:rtqllioo bcfi:re lbc p;' -~ ·
mary - !hat if 1o1m Rowland a [Dcmoc:ral) John Larson w= cledcd iD
NoYanbcr, it wOuldn't make a difi'aa~a:. h was Wlpi'CCCdc:nttd in Coono::tiat
bislay; n:por15 RA:publican Slalc Senator Bill Aniskovicb d Branfad.
AniUoYicb dilfamtialt$ ~hi& aaitudc from the traditional '"lWeCdlc
Dcrll'wccdle n.m• argum:ni tlw lbc Demxnts and ~ advanc:C
a1mo5t identical~ Dmxx:rals YCCringjmu lillie 10 the ldl of ceoIP:r,lbc ~ jl1'lt a little 10 the rigiL That sense rdleclod the dc:tominatioo of piKtics 10 goy= effectively by~ close 10 the oern.cr. AnisbMch
118)'1. '"The lnlditional partisan politics has bcc:n corm:tly pm:CiYCd by many 1D
be CXliiCa'DCd solely wilb the accumula!ioo r:L pc>w<r by individuals within lbc
establishmcnl.• Aniskovich 11)'5- "!f the panic$ SloOd fa somclhing [else). pc:opic wwld fed parties offcmllbcm.a real choice.• ·
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• N*lnally, Ross l'mll'a dramMic tbird-place showing iD lbc 1992 paidcoliaJ dcdioll, which c:nablcd Dcmocnll Bill Ointoo 10 Win wilh oii!y _43 perCICIIl ollbc 'ltR, dcmJosualal tlw Connecticu! is hardly alone. . '
"Sane d whal is ge&ng. 011 is the None r:L the Above syodromc,• obsctvea
Dcmoalllic Slale Rep. Palricia Dil1oo. "l had the benefit ol walch!ng conuneccials in dn:lc a four SillieS 1bc past few weds. Twalty~yesr· YdmlnS d
Congress "-'= saying 'lbc polilicians wwJd ba¥e )'OU belic:Yc-- if lbcse
ultimale insiders were somehow popilist Outsickn.. ·
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•Both major panic$JR wnw::lrJ:d by wbal YOia15 ieC: is moral ethical ca~
ruptioD by JBt)' lcadl:n. Several IIII.C Rcpublic:an parties. fa instance, have
bcc:n lakeD OYCI' by troops from lbc a.istian Coalition, J'oocb 10 the chagriD o(.
olda-line CD' leaden; ODe ol diose states ia Virginia. A mainslmun
Rcpubliall rqrcscnling tbat stile is~ jeopan:lizing his party'i 80iid chance
' ol CllpllJriDg I U.S. Scoale seal !his &JI by running 1111 independent bid against
party-axkncd Oliw:r Nath, wtxxn 1bc Olrislian Coalitioo C3lapUited 10 the
IIOIIIinalion. (Similariy, Virginia's Danocrals w= suffering froni an indep:oden! quest bi one ol dlcir own. too; fur last \Wd.lbal Candidale, Doug Wlldc:r,
quit lbc race.). .
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How did il oonv: about !hal a Slale known as The Land or Sleady Habits ·
miMd 10 lbc fon:fronl ol such a YOia!ile trend1
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·: "Vk may be steady, but we're willing to take a risk fa the bcaa'; says
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officials. lollbyisls. CUitrad!n, llld piirooagc
anployces wbo puD WI !be money and the V01a1
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, 011 dccOOo day in rcwm fa govcrnmca~ favm.
Urban patronage bas lalgdy (lhougb DOl carplctdy) dried up, in large part
because ol downsized govmimcnl and a backM! igainst payroll-peddcd. inc{.
licient bureaucracies. Mcce ~ live in !he ~ subwtls IICIW.
Party lcadcts have hurt 1hcmidvc& by resisting effects k> l:roaden !heir polit-ical base. They bave pefcmd instead to_ hcp cootrol oltbcir dwindling JlO"U
base. Republicans. fa example. ovcm.no:l farner pany O¥:mbcr Lowell
Wcicko-'a rcfonm, which lxic:tly invited unaffi1ialod ~ k> YOit in primaries.
Danocrals abanOOncd their own &:.mpaarily anli-ill8Chine c:andidate, Bruce
Marison, in the 1990 gubcmataia1 elcdioo, gambling they could use a big loss
t o = 10 JlO"U over the progressive wing olthe party in 1994. (They piclrJ:d
John Larson 10 do d. Ooops.} Boch panic$ have roospind. k> block open pi~in which !he pqlUlar YOCe; l'8lha !han a smaD set of~ delegates. wOuld select the paroes'IIOIDinecs b- ofticc.
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'"The rcUain from coming 1M c:l our coovenlion lhis SUIIllla'..L'h'a oilr ·.
tum!' -is~ entl!usiaW o( JlO"U-grXlben. h'a ~the chant or lDl'ICOIXi loolting 10 make a change." sa)"5AniskoYich. wbo plb1icly bacb his party's gober- .
naJaial candidale _jlut campaigns aggressively 011 his own amOng Branfoofa
blx:ral J::lemxnls. 1bis new political landscape: n:quircS the srois to nm our
own ~" be II8)'L "\'k have 10 make our OWD case. That's ~ a bad
.thing.':' : . :, : -~.- :. -:: - - •··
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"Party politics ii_Dot ill and c:l itself bad," DOleS Dcmocnllic State Rep. Dillon. Dillon has made a c:aur 1M ol appealing 10 independent-minded YOt· CD wilh<U depending 011 party 1o::ada.-whiJe refraining from lllaCicinglbc
mcc:baiUcs ol party-building and lraditiooal campaign aganizjng. "What's bad _
is when it gets &df-«fcrennial and self-absabed.~
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nquestionabl)., global political change has ~ lbc indcpcndcot
revolution. The end d the Cold War ICJWicd entrenched political
machines all over lbc wOOd Ill lhe process. it lfismantlcd. ~ farnili.marlccn; ol_ ~ Ccld War-dri'm! h'baal-<OOSaVB!ive dcbalc. as despcn!dy ¥
' some ~Iicans cling to throv.ing ~ "1ibctaf' laB at lhcir opponentS. That,. tactic DOw generally wab only when the candidate runs from the label and Ids
theopporientddinetbc~atmoftheracc.Partymachincs,asrruchasanypolit-
ical face in lhis coontry, have scnmblcd to ll!1dcnland oonfusing. often CXllltradicuiry
polling results to address public conc:ems
like aimc and. wes in new
ways.
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Cuny su=cdcd in doing lbal in the prim8ry campaiJD ainolig progressives, as wdJ as cCnsc:Natives and independent suburbanius. lk told progressives !hal Danocrals can DO longer ~y pJSb fa spCnding mac nioney 011 _
traditional JOCial-service aganiZ3Iions 10 address social pob1ems. Even ifYOt- ·
ers would suppat lbal stmegy, il has 1101 bcc:n shown to worlc, be told them. His
carnpaiJD sough! to apply tnditional Do;rnocratic pinciplc:s-'-li social justice.
conctn1 ~ ~ pocr- and middle class. pogrcssive taxalion, ~ tharl an unfair
burdal 011 the poor, and aboYe aD, a sense lbal ~ bas a role in addn:ss• social ~ ~ realities c:l ~ inocbn wOOd
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While olhcr Daoocratic aNI ~candidates~ to popular disconlent by promising 10.QJI the new stale income tax, Cuny argued thai cutting _.
the popc:rty 1liX instead, lhll'l kvding its Wlfairly high burden on some inner city.
and subuJban communities, wOuld do a betla job. In ~ process. be appealed ,
to bod! me traditionally D6roc:ratic mban YOie and the traditionally nXn: moopendent subwban YOte at the same time. He also had a chance to accuSe his
opponen!s o( pandoing to p1blic pe=ptions rather !han seriously tackling an
issue. In addition, Cuny caJkd fa improving rather !han cutting the income wi
by taxing the wealthy~ mac !han the womng- and middle·dass-
cs.
In the general election, look fa Cuny to try to do chat 1101 just Wilh the prop"
errj tax, but wilh govcmmcnt aid lO business; strcamlinlng bureaucracy aild
refaming prisons. Yes, the Wc:icka.adminisuallon bas givm too many breaks
· to big businessc$ thai have nO! aeated
jobs, be argucs.lnslead ofjust~
ing out lOOse dollm, Curry ptJpOI5CS funncl1ing them lO small, loc3l companits.
. ~y !hose owned by watm.
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Yes. Cau.:cticul's·pisons nood aacntioo. But rather than
~ calling for a ~ CDITCCtional sy=ri. CUny says.
lci'a look • how 10 rd!abilita~t inmalt:s and n:fcim pisons
ll:eygh maoda1a'y litaw:y nining · and rrae <XXm1UIIity
policing aimed • aime ~Rvctllion. Yes. lhe bure8u::racy rl
ll&c puoment has bcamc bloalcd •limes and ioefflciaL
~·But instad of remOving govcmm=nt'a inability 10 address big
.isrues. be ·.-gUcS. ,let., rell'1lin' wed= and loosen lhe. coostrainls rl bureaucncy 10 enable then 10 do their job bcna'.
Yes, goyemment and political patties have grown carupl_
and bcboldm 10 big lOOney. lt\lha than ditch the maj<r par••
tics, Curry believes, pcq>le should rcbJild lhe patties ll!d:r •
I)'SlCm o( open. direct pirnaric:s arid limits 011 carilpaign 'roo-
'The refrain from coming
out of the Re.publican .·
convention this sum- .
mer-·~It's· our tum!' -is
. .the enthusiasm of.
power-grabbers."
lribuiions and spending. N lhe independent Democra1ic llalldard bearer, be will have 10 banle GroaJt in lhe Olliy going rl
.the faD ampaign 10 w= lhe mantle of The Catididalc Who
·~ Beat Rowland, while allmqlting 10 paint Groa:t as The
: Waskd \bee. She will be pLiying the ~ game. \\'hoewr
wins this unofficial COIIICSI by n1id.Q:10bcr is likely 10 get lhe
, lion's share of lhe la1c fundnlising ~ fooncr l.anioD
suppa1CrS and campaign wcrtm. I
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Oroark may be formidable CXll11jldition ,c. Curry. Her
carnpaign is ~ on lhe idea \hal Conncx:ticu! government
·· . ~ finally begun 10 change in lhe past four years wxkr lhe
Wdcka administration. She can 'point 10 four yean of bal-.
.anced Stale budgdS after. a docade Of t=rd debt. She cmlits
· the inaxrie tax. .v.hich p-ovidcd a moo: reliable income
Stream than lhe sales laX and v.hich enabled the Stale 10 loWer
corporate 8nd sales taxes. Using independent fcdc:r.ll govern- .
inCnt statistics. Groarlc argues that a1roost all jobs left lhe Stale
before the income tax took effect 3nd dd'c:nds the. Wcicka
administration's aid 10 large companies lhal consid=d leaving the Stale. Cllhetwise, she·says. lhe ouffiber of job; lost· iii
Connecticut viould have bo:n much larger. In fact. jobs have
· · slowly rCtumed 10 lhe stale Wldc:r the income laX. Any fid.
dling with the tax. she maintains, including Curry's progres-
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sivity, v.<JU!d cinly Ufi!.d '\hal~
In lhe nat few \lo'lrls, !here sOOuld also be int=Siing .
lag-lGam fTl8lCb-ut5. Groa:t and Scou.
eumple; have
al=dy begun ganging up on Rowland to paint him as the
insider candidal.e who bounced checks u a U.S. ·
·U:ingressman and lnldcd in on his U:ingrcssional experience
to lobby on behalf of lar]!C companies laying off U:innecticut
v.ocd.m. 1 call him 'Wa.Wngtoo \obbyisl John Rowland."'
· Sroa 00asls.1t driYCS him nuls!" Sroa and Cuny are likcly .
lD tr.am up as the two amiable, 51llligbt-tall;ing fJOPUlists :M>l
are haw>' lD dCba1C their different outsider pc:Tspectives.
Conna:ticut, it ~ will have plenty of reason 10 pay
allmlion to a polilical campaign this fall.·
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Cuny's new· campaign ad
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• Candidate: William E. Curry Jr.
. Party: Democrat ·
. ntle: Thunder
Length: 30 SecOnds
VIsual: Scenes of Curry talking
and shaking hands are· overtaid
with quotations from newspapers.
Script: Narrator. "On Sept. 13,
the Pe<:;pte_ spoke and lightning
struck ConneCticut. The people
voted for Bitt Curry to 'challenge
the status quo.' (Haltford Courant,
9/7/94) Newspapers say Bill Curry
Cuny campaign
has a· 'histo,Y of independence
debt. The style of this ad is very
from machine politics .. .' (New similar to those he aired before the
Haverf Advocate, 918194) 'From his
days as .state senator-... Bill Curry . primary, and all the quotations
drawn from pre-primary newspaper
has worked first and foremost for . . endorsements;
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the public good.· (New Haven
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Accuracy:
All
the
quotations
are
Advocate, 9/8194) As comptroller, from newspaper editorials. Those
· Bill Curry 'put
are opinions and, as sua., can't be
· taxpayers firSt
catted
accurate or inaccurate. All
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the editorials did pi-aise Curry,
London Day,
although, except for the Register ,
"'-~•ntl~ · 9/4194) and
Citizen, notas unreservedly as
'has proven he. these excerpts imply. The Day said
can manage .
Curry "has had to P4f taxpayers ·
the state's
. first in his capacity as comptroller"
. money smart- not exactly the same as saying
ly.' (~agister ·
he "put taxpayers first." The Day
Citizen, 9/3194) Bin Curry haa ' ...
went CM:I to say it hoped Curry
· ·the credentials, the talent and the
wOuld "hang onto that trait" and
drive to tum our state around.'
not see the govttmorship as a
(Register ·citizen, 913194) VISion.
Chance to give "unreasonable .raisCourage. Real change. BiB Curry,
es" to state employees. The New
governor." . _
Haven Advocate's reference to his
Analysis: Curry waited ~
"Independence from machine polidays after his primary victory to air
tics" came in the context of reservhis first television ad of the general
ing judgment on its generaJ-elecelection campaign. Thafs eight
' days he tethis-name disappear . · tion endorsement. The AdvOcate
said U. Gov. Eunice S. Groat1( has
from the public eye, risking the loss
the
independence, and CUrry
of sOme of the momentum gained
still "has to prove that he has ...
in the closing days of the priniary
the extraordinary backbone and
campaign. The most lj(ely reason
progressive courage" that Groark
· for the hiatus: Curry had to raise
has displ8yed.
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-By ANDREW JUUEN
Collra~tt Staff Writn"
Organized labor, seeing a chance~
to pump up its sagging pOlitical
clout, Thursday unanimously en-dorsed upstart Democrat William E.
-Curry Jr.'s bid to become gOvernor.
"I think what we're going to find•
is we're en~ged, people feel good
about this;• saidAFL-CIOPresfdent
John W. Olsen. ''We're going to get
the vote out. We're going to .work
- it."
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' -The state Afi.CIO, at its annual ·
convention, also en'!or5ed U.S. Sen.
Joseph 1. Ueberman's re-election trict. _
_the delegates gathered at the Shere- and neighbOrs."
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bid despite strong opposition. The
In Statewide races, the AFL-CIO ton-Hartford Hotel. was not unexAnd although organized labor
-only other contest that sparked any threw its support behind Democrat- pected, It holds potential both for , doesn't have the numbers it once
debate was the race for the U.S. 1c candidates, backing Richard Diu- Cuny and _the lllbor movement It- did, the movement's ability to mobi- House of Representatives In the 4th · -menthal for attorney general; MUes self.
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llze volunteers and take a campaign
-District, where Republican lncum- S. Rapoport' for secretary_ of the . Cuny defeated the pa~cked directly to the voters can help Cuny
bent Rep..Christopher Shays won state, Nancy Wyman for comptrol- candidate, state Senate _ ldent broaden the strategy that helped
the federation's backing.
. ler and Joseph Suggs for treasUrer. ProTem John B. Larson,ln the Sept him defeat Larson. _
. In other congressional races, the
The labor federation's decision to 13 primary by piecing together a - ·"This Is about organizing neigh·
AFL-CIO endorsed Rep. Barbara B. endorse Cuny was riot a surprise. broad-based grass-roots coalition. borhoods and eommunltles," Curry
Kennelly, D-lst District; Rep. SJJD Cuny's speech before the conven- He hammered away at the populist .. said.
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Gejden&On, D-2nd District; Rep. tlon Thursday morning was more of theme Thursday, urging the con- . The federation's endorsement Is
Rosa L DeLauro, D-3rd District; a rally than a talk, complete with ventlon del~tes to get Involved In lllso expected to yield donations to
and Democratic challengers James patriotic trombone music and the campaJgn.
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Curry's campaign from an array of
H. Maloney in the 5th District and homemade signs.
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Charlotte Koskoff In the 6th- Dis~ _ But although the endOrsement by lists," Cuny said. "Call your friends
Pleue aee Af'L.CIO, Pap Al8
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O!ura11t Staff Writer
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labor organizations.
Looking beyond November, cur:
ry's campaign also presents the Ia·'
bor movement with a chance-to regain some. o~ the political sway it
has lost as Jts numbers have de.· clliled. The. movement rt'ow has
nearly 200,000 union members
working for government or private ·
business in CoMecticut,· about 15
percent of the state's work force~
With five candidates in the gover·ners race, the thinking inside the
labor movement is that fabor's abili· ·
tyto mobilize voters will be magnified. The large field is expected to
sbrink the percentage· of the total
~~needed for victory, giving extra
we1ght to each vo~e.
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:"In a five-way race it doesn't take
much to win arid it doesn't take
much to lose;" Olsen si.ict ';'The
people can make a difference."
. Labor insiders also· feel· that in
Cuny they have a candidate they
can wholeheartedly. support. As. a
state senator, Curry was conSidered
a strong backer of labor, and he has
won supJ)ort with promises to cut
property taxes and restore some of
the benefits injured workers lost in
1993.
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"He ta1ks our talk, he.knows OW\
f~ling;" said John Shove, a .state
~nson guard attending tile conven- .
. non. "Th~ AFL-CIO ... is going to. '
· ~ ~ut there shaking the bushes, ·
tymg up phone lines, knocking on ..
doors."·.
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In his ·address to the delegates,
Curry honed in on a sensitive issue
among organized workers. He not·
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American workers were once c:Onsiden;d a point of pride, but are now
·perceived as a weakness of the na·
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go_t
as .a probfem," Curry
- satd People began to scapegoat
the working person." ·
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When it came time to endorse
Curry, there was no debate. His candidacy won the federation's back~
. ing on a voice vote.
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By contrast, · the question of.
whether to endorse Ueberman's reeleCtion bid.was a far more conten·
tious affaii-..
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. Uebennan has. upset many in the
labor movement with his suooon of
the North American free Trade
Agreement and his. role in the de-bate over President Clinton's health
care proposal. -Some feel Ueber, man's actions served to derail the
president's plan.
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."I think we make a serious mis·
take by. endorsing Joseph Ueber·
man,". said .~b Hurvitz. a
sentative of District 1199 of the New
En~and Health · Care Employees
Umon.· "We only express our weakness aS labor." . .
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· othe.rs, however, noted that al·
though Ueberman.has gone against
o~ized labor on some key issue:S, ·
. his overall record of suppon is
Jood. Supponers also pointed to the.·
unportance of maintaining a Demo- ·
eratic majority' in the Senate.
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there for ·him," said Michael Dennehy, a representative of the postal
workers union.
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voice vote affirmed the federation's
suppon for Ueberman.
. The question of whether to suppon Shays' re-election bid in the 4th
District alsO. sparked some ~
sion. There was no talk of bac:kin&
Shays' Demoeratic opponent, Jona·
than ·Kantrowi~ only whether to
endorse Shays or take no poSition in
the race. ·
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Several union leaders
fair·
field COunty. ~d that although
Shays, a Republican, does nOt aJ.
· ways agree wi~ ~abor'fposition, be
has shown a willingness to listen to
their concerns.
"We have. had a tremendous ·
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working relatiOnship with him," sion and a brain of his own."·
said Frank Carroll, a representative . With Sbays expected to win
of the electrical- workeri union. election handily, the cOnvention
"He's an individUal with compu- 'voted to,offer him its endorsement.
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Curry clobbers
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The wrath of s:ate eniolovees was senato~ who oppos~d the pay inthe sing!~ most irr.po~ant ~factor in cr.eases:.. and he was hounded by
Sen. Jonn a. Llrson·s deieat in the u·mon p1c!<ets dating back to ,\larc:1
TuesdJ!<s Democratic suoemato·. at :he Democrats' annual JeffersonJackson-Bailey Dinner.
rial pn"'ary, he said Thu~day.
"The voce again.st the state-~m-.
L~rson ·.... as targeted by the ..
unions afte'r opposing tive union ployee unions looms large at this
point,"
Larson said during·• press
pay increases that had be~n awarded this ytar in binding arbitration .. conference Thursday .. "It's really
Under ·s:ate law, the arbitrated in- the only one (faccorl that hies ac the
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creases for state employees can be anger of people."
Larson's defeat was foresh~d- ·
_o'vem:r.:ed by a two-,ttiirds vote of
owed by the strong feelings of the
· either'chamber in the legisla'rure.
Several state-employee unions union pickets in March; They held
signs
that included "Labor agai!ISt.
backeo Comptroller ~illiam E. CurCJuraM Starl \Vrittr
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Larson" and "Labor for Rowland."
Larson s:opped to talk. :o the pro- un{ons. Larson's campaign also
testers before aetending the Demo· miscalculated by relying heavily on
television ad'<erlising thatended uo
cr.~tic dinner, which is heid annually to replenish the party· cofferS reaching many R,epublicans. unaifiliJted voters and out-of-s:ate resi-·
. oeiore the iall elec:ions.
"We can't 'aopropriate :noney deilts who could not vote for him in
'that's not there." Lai>on told :he :he ?rimary. The l...:lrson strategy
was that the ·~ide .television sweep
proteste~. "I'm sorry."
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"Watch how sorry you're going co would ~vtnrually ti.Jter down to the
be in November!" shouted a oicket- 23 p~rcenc ot registered C.t:-nocrats
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who rumed.out to voce in :he pri.m~At ihe same dinner. Curry said he ry. .
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would have voted in favor oft he pay
increases,. adding chat state em.- . more organized field operation that
ployees have ·become "the scape- targeted "prime" voters wno have a
goats. and the lightning rods for the
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registered Democrats said they re·
ce1ved .sev~ral campaign mailings
from Curry, but never heard a word
from Llrson. ·
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Larson conceded that his strategy
...,as primarily focused on beating
. Reoublican candidate John G. Rowland in November. rather than beil!·
!ng Curry in September. But Larson· .
. sa1d several times that he ·never·
overlooked Curry. .
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ways with a focus toward N.ovem· .
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• State Sen. John·e. Larson of E.a•t Hartford, who held a press confennca in Hartford Thursday, said
parry machinery to. bring out the the ange<"of state employees was the main r-eason !Of' hi a defeat in Tuesday's [)flnocnotlc gvMf'11atorial
vote, but he said that ''the last time it primAry. State-employe.~ unions targeted urson aft« hi a opposition to pay rai..,..
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Curry rece1'<ed support from . field that includes Rowland: Lt. advertisements to deieat Curry's
muctt in return. .
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hard-core, committed Democrats Gov. Eunice Groark; a former Re- extensive rield operation.
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"If I were John, I'd probably sue
"fho' were willing to spend their publican: and conservative Republi· • "I wouldn't ·have changed the my media consult:mcs,'' Curry said.
ume and the1r mon~y on rus behalf. can Tom Scott. who is running as an strate~ whatsoever.'.' Larson said. ·"If I were a La~on donor. I'd ask for
All example of that type of commit· independent.
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-Even ~Nhen Curry was iar behind a periorm:>nce audit."
:ed sup.poner is· Peter
"With three Republicans in
in the polls. Curry spokesman Roy
kept· his sense o.r humor
:;.e semor memoer of Greenwtch s race," larson said, "the Der:nocrats Occh1?~~sso sa1d th.e'pnmary was ·.Thursday, desp1t~ rhe obvtous OIS·
"nance board. A longtime Demo· are not in as bad shape as some of <:urry s . ho~e rurf and that the appomtment that snowed 1n an
crat· who has run several faded , the pundits. might otherW\se con- held operation strategy could de: hourlong press conference.
races for state Senate. Gasp~rino. dude." . ·
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sa1d he used hiS own money to send
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a letter to li 100 Democrats i'n
Regardl~g hiS furure. Llrson s:>.ys Llrson was spending so much mon· votes than I did."
Greenwich, teiling them to vote for he would hke to teach at a umvers1ty.
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· .Gasparin- . focused ·only on the to hiS. brothers. He would conunue
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iots· in primaries lhat included the ~th Johns~n and Hrggms. a ~aJOr
. !990 race between Democratic gu- ms~rance firm based m Hartrord.
' !lema to rial candidates Bruce Mor- He mtends co spend more ume w1th
rison and William Cibes.. ~
h1s fam~ly an~ poss1bl~ becor:ne mThe strategy worked. Currv won volved In puohc teleV\SIO". '" the
Gre:n·o¥ich by Si percent to .jJ per- ·same way. that former Tnn1ty Col. cent~ a higher percentage than his' lege pre.sld~_;tt.Tor:t Gerety condu~·
overall win.
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. '.vhile .Greenwich represented , With hindsi~ht on his defeat. Laroniy a small number of votes in the son sa1d he nas no regre.cs and
overall primar;, GJsparir.o's effort would not_~ave ·~one. an)~hmg dlfshowed. :he type ~f work ·;hat was· ferently. :::1en 1. ne. spent more
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Ihe Sl~ecl was: larson
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.. Perhaps the only surprise was
that larson, the Senate president
pro tem from East Hanford, ·didn't
rejig~:er his strategy when he· had
ti:J~ chance.
·.Choosing .I rom an array of op-
llie word On
li'Ons, Larson dt!cidct.l to wage, on
expensive 111r.:dia C'!_mpaig-n, which
many Monday .. morning quarterbacks agreed Wed~esday was a
, huge. and ·ultimately fatal. miscal·
· . culation. Amo•ig 1 he naysayers was
Democratic I' any Cliairman ·Ed·
ward L Marcus. who from the be·
gi,nriing oft he race was in larson's
corner.
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'incorrecl," said Marcus. "Primaries'
are won out in the field, but the.
people doinr; their 1V fell the Strate·
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Rowland, larson virtually ignored environmentalists, · omong others.
Cuny, spending nearly $700,000 to Some of their techniques were unbuild his name recognilion.and im-· conventional, to say the least
age via television.
Merrilee Milsle_in, a health care:
Voters in Hoboken, N.J., East union leader, said she knew of one
Longmeadow, Mass., and White woman who wrote personal notes
Plains, N.Y. -who gotthe com mer- about Curry to the 200 friends on
cials on thdr 1Vs- may have been her. Christmas card list. Others
Impressed. Unfortunately fur lar· stood at intersections holding placson, they didn't get lo vole Tuesday. ards or made hundreds of phone
- Democrats in Hartford did. So (lad calls.
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Democrats in New Britain and . By comparison, the party estab,
Waterbury, places where the party lishmenl appeared to· do next to··
organizaltons were solidly behind nothing for larson, other than offer
larson. ·In the end, they let him photo opportunities for various
down royally. · ·
mayors .to shuke his hand.
In addu ion, with most of his mon- • , It may be premature to sound th~
f'.Y going into media, Larson relied · death knell for the Democratic moon the Democratic inachine 10 chine that nourished-in the. days of.
crank into gear and tum out his· Chairman John Bailey and held its
vote. In town after toW!l, the rna- own with William A. O'Neill in the
chine sputtered and crashed.
' governor's ·chair. But Ihe party's
Curry carried a lopsided 138 of weaknesses first appeared In I 986,.
the state's 169 municipalities, ~m· were magnified in 1990 (when one
ploying a field operation and out·· in five voters grudgingly supported
reach program that his lieutenants the Democrats' glibematorial stan:
began fashioning last' spring. His dard·bearer) and fully exposed in .
campliign. was tissisled bt trade 199·1. Simply put, party leaders.
uniunisls, prOb'TessiYe ai::tivlS!s and. can't deliver like Ihey could in llai·
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ley's'day.
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Afte'r the results were tallied
Tuesday. ni~ht, dvil righ_IS lawyer
John Bnttatn was happtly eating
crow at the Cuny victory celebralion in Hartford. He had sat out the
primary because he thought Curry
,didn't hove a chance. He had seen
the evidence with his own eyes.
"I was standing in the Civic Cen·
ter during ihe (p-arty's nominating!
convention and I saw larson with
all those mayors. I told my Curry
friends to pack their tent and go
horne," Brittain recalled. "Well,J'rri
eating my words."
. /
Yet, it's an oversimplificntion to
entirely blame .the party hierarchy
for larson's demise. Every machine
needs ar engine, and Larson, an
affable politician· with a· gap·
toothed smile, wasn't it. He said he
would fight crime, Improve publfc
schools and create jobs. Sure. Everyone says those things. He failed
to "distinguish himself from the
puck.
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.
.
larson, who won plaudtts for h1s
graciqus concession Tuesday night,
declined to speak· with rer.orters of Curry's energized troops. ,.
.
Wednesday, saying he didn t want
Although Curry insisted that his
to deflect attention frou·l Curry. But offering of~ "substantive blueprint .
Larson's campaign manag«;r. Mar· on·how to fix the brokenness of the;
tha Carlson, showed up at he11d· state," his call for change and his .
quarters Wednesday mominl(. · · ··issues were as cruciillto his victory .
Carlson refused to make excuses a.s his strategy,- he nonetheless was
for larson's defeat., saying the at.a partinl loss.to explain his jug-:'
strategy advocated by his nali~nally' gemaut.
·
· ·
·
known pollster- Peter Hart & As·
Yes, he said, the labor unions
sodates- and by his media consul- were. important, but so were the
tants - Doak Shrum Harris· & De- informal networks that contacted •
· vine _: seemed to 'make perfect and attracted voters from across the
sense. .
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·
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political spectrum. .
"Ou~.choice was to spend a ton of.
The pre.voiling wisdom Is that ·
. money in the field nnd win the pri- grass-roots, lssue-orlen~ed cam-.
mary and be standing here· today·· p11igns.have gone the way of paper .
like Curry is with no money, or to · ballots, and Ihot big money and·jlnld
. try to elbow our way past Curry and· media are the dominant factprs in •
be standing. here wiih· a quarter· modern campaigning. But Cuny.
million dollars," she said .. "We proved the wisdom wrong.
. chose the· second as our strategy. I
Asked whut fueled his drive to
feel very comfonable with the way victory, Curry struggled to synthe·
our campaign was run."
size his thoughts and finally gave
Carlson confim1ed that Marcus up. He srrailed and said, "I can't put .
. tried to persuade larson to '!lodity all of it onto a bumper sticker ye~." .
~Is. appro~ch, but that campu1gn of.
Courant Staff Writm Alan /..ruin :
flc1als dec1ded to stay the course. By and Mark PaznioAas contribultd to this
doing so, they played into the hands . s.tory.
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HARTFORD (AP) - Sounding
·Larson has y_~t to qffer his ex-piavery much like fello~ Georgetown nation for what happened. He isgrad Bill Clinton, Connecticut's Wil- sued a brief statement saying the
liam E. Curry Jr. pulled· off what day was Curry's and ·he wouldn't
political pundits once predicted was talk with reporters until today. '
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:beyond his grasp.
•
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As far as Larson campaign direcHe fed voters' desires for-change tor Martha Carlson saw it, the camand government reform, told them. paign had two .choices: run an
he "felt'their pain," and then beat a expensive grassroots campaign; win
m~n who had been in the governor's
the primary by a sizeable margin
race longer than any other. candi- but end up brok~. or squeak by Curdate in any of the three major par- ry by relying on the political 'rnaties.
Curry beat Democrat John B. chinery afforded party-backed
Larson in Tuesday's primary battle Cat')did:ites.
the old-fashioned way: with shoe
Instead, "we have no· win and a
leather and a grassroots organiz.a- couple , of hundred· grand" leit .in
campaign donations,-· she said.'.''We
· tion.
Curry was outspettt .10-_t~l
knew it was a risk we could lose the
-- television advertising by the Larson primary ... and we died by it." - ·
campaign. ·
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It didn't help, she said, that as'
But while Larson was flooding Senate Democratic leader,· Larson
the screens with feel-good pictures voted against pay raises that had
more suitable to a general election, . been negotiated with state employ~
Curry was crossing the state, firing ee unions during this year's legisup Democrats With' his call for pro!>' Iative session.· Union leaders had
ercy tax reform, more cops. on the promised to make the Democ__ ratic ....
beat .and a shakeup in the party hi- \ ·
erarchy.
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Party pay politically for the rejecy
"My guess is when people look lon of pay raises, and their support
back. on this election, TV will mean of Curry fulfilled that· pledg~: i~
lesS because people are tired of the . part..
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hype,;,- Curry said yesterday in re"The vote for Bill Curry yesterf!ecting on his. come-fi~om-behind day was labor. The labor vote abs~
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Within the First Lady’s Office, Speechwriting assisted with the writing and editing of the speeches given by the First Lady at various events and on various trips. This collection highlights topics relating to the arts and humanities, women’s issues and organizations, medical issues and organizations, health care, the economy, the military, and the efforts of the First Lady on behalf of candidates running in the 1994 midterm elections. It contains speeches given by the First Lady, and speeches given by President Clinton and Ira Magaziner, to a wide variety of organizations and audiences during 1994. The records include memos, notes, speech drafts, talking points, pamphlets, articles, correspondence, and newsletters.
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