Where We Vote: Janet Peckinpaugh vs. Joe Courtney

Joe Courtney is a party line

Joe Courtney is a party line voter. Does he give any thought to what he is voting for or does he just show up, cast his vote for whatever the Democrats vote for, get his paycheck and go home. He has voted with a majority of his Democratic colleagues 98.1% of the time during the current Congress.

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Enough is enough. Let's take away Obama's power to implement horrendous laws that drive us deeper into debt. Instead of balancing a budget, they raise taxes to pay for their liberal agenda. I really wish Obama did not run and Clinton won intead. We may have been in a better situation.

IMHO, Democrats are misinformed, delusional or both. Not that I am a big fan of Republicans and who they are putting forward as candidates in important elections. There was no one else except Janet? Come on.

Peckinpaugh vs Courtney

Abolish organized crime.. vote out all the incumbents.

I am a Democrat and I cannot

I am a Democrat and I cannot vote for Joe Courtney. He is a weak Congressman and misrepresents the people of Eastern Connecticut. It is time for a change. Do not listen to the Media and what commercials ads tell you, Joe has no idea what he is doing in office. Anyone who votes in favor of the heath care bill does not deserve our vote; it’s time for a change. I’m voting for Janet!

Thanks for that, partisan

Thanks for that, partisan hack. Unverifiable story.
Substitute anybody's name.

Courtney vs. Peckinpaugh

In the 1980s, when Janet Peckinpaugh was still a TV news anchor - not a journalist, as her campaign ads claim - a friend of mine was waiting in line at a Hartford-area dry cleaner's when Peckinpaugh walked in. She blew past the line and ambled up to the counter.

The clerk advised her, "Ma'am, you have to go to the back of the line."

An angry, incredulous Peckinpaugh exploded, "Do you know who I am?"

"Yes," the clerk replied. "You're Janet Peckinpaugh and you need to wait in line like everybody else."

Peckinpaugh then stomped to the back of the line, seething with fury.

This is not a person I want representing me in Washington.

Courtney and Peckinpaugh

Joe Courtney has cast more uninformed, fiscally irresponsible and misguided votes than any Congressman in our District's history. Anyone who would vote for cap and trade shouldn't be representing anyone. If you want to pay $1,761.00 more per year in energy costs (according to Obama's own Treasury Dept. study) be my guest, but count me and the rest of thinking Americans out. One has to be seriously uninformed to vote for this excuse of a Congressman.

Ask yourself:

Did you support the $787+ billion "stimulus" that had negligible impact on job creation?
Did you support "card check" that denies workers the secret ballot in union organizing elections?
Did you support a massive health care overhaul that is already pushing insurance rates skyward and will force a myriad intended and unintended negative consequenes?
Did you support the raising of the debt ceiling?
Did you support allowing the Bush-era tax cuts to expire that will raise a family with $50,000 in income an additional $2,100 in federal taxes?
Did ypu support the federal takeover of the auto manufacturers?

I could go on and on...

Well, Joe Courtney did. And no intelligent individual can justify such a misguided voting record. A labor union hack, perhaps, but not someone with a functioning brain.

What's more, we have learned that Courtney is is one of 56 far-left sponsors of a gigantic union-backed state and local pension bailout bill that will further shaft taxpayers to pay-off his union supporters. Grover Norquist has a brilliant piece in the October issue of the "American Spectator" that puts this bill in perspective. I suggest you read it and tell me where he's wrong. It's the story of how the public employee unions have been raping the taxpayers (any sentient voter already knew that), but are back looking for more in the form of Rep. Earl Pomeroy's "Preserve Benefits and Jobs Act of 2009." This bill is much less about jobs than it is about asking taxpayers to bail-out the unfunded liabilities in state and local public pension systems across the country. Taxpayers should be livid.

As it now stands, federal workers earn $123,000 per year in salary and benefits to just $61,000 for private sector workers. For state and local government, the comparable figure is $80,000 per year (31% more than the private sector). Yet private sector workers are being asked to subsidize these gold-plated salaries and benefits to meet all the promises their unions and Democratic politicians have been making all these years. Norquist indicates that on the state and local level alone, the premium paid to government employees amounts to a $350 billion premium that taxpayers are paying out annually over what private sector workers would earn.

Moreover, come election time, taxpayers are competing with organized labor's annual political slush fund of about $6 billion extracted from the forced dues paid by 15 million government workers. In Courtney's case, the overwhelming share of his campaign war chest consists of union money, much of it ultimately extracted from taxpayers. This is just another example of Joe Courtney's contempt for taxpayers, fiscal discipline, and the truth. It's time to shine the lights on these vermin and, on Nov. 2, send them scurrying back into their holes.

Vote for Janet Peckinpaugh for Congress.