“The only middle-aged white men who voted for me were myself
and my brothers,” Mr. Malloy told BuzzFeed News. “So if we’re going to rely on
middle-aged white men to win Democratic races again — you know, I mean I think
we need to speak to a broader audience than middle-aged white men.”
This is a page taken directly from the President Barrack
Obama campaign playbook. Perceiving that the Democratic Party had been steadily
losing votes among working class whites, Mr. Obama, during his first campaign, managed
to form a new epicentric coalition that relied on “support among communities of
color, educated whites, Millennials, single women, and seculars,” according to a review in the New York Times of a report
written by Ruy Teixeira and John Halpin.
“It is instructive to trace the evolution of a political
strategy based on securing this coalition in the writings and comments, over
time, of such Democratic analysts as Stanley Greenberg and Ruy Teixeira,” the
Times noted in late November 2011. Stan Greenberg is the husband of 3rd District US Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, who this year will be supporting the
already pox marked candidacy of former Secretary of State and presidential hopeful
Hillary Clinton.
Flocking to the epicenter were easily agitated groups: the
pro-abortion lobby, the anti-death penalty lobby, the anti-gun lobby and, as always,
the academia lobby. Not for nothing did Bill Buckley, the founder of the modern
conservative movement and a Connecticut resident nearly all his life, announce
that he would prefer to be governed by the first fifty names picked at random from
the phone book than the entire Harvard Law School faculty. Mr. Obama
successfully bottled the epicentric groups, fizzed them up and won two
elections.
By Mr. Obama’s second campaign, however, Democrats had lost
both houses of Congress – and more. Progressive Democrats also lost several
governorships, several state legislatures and loads of confrontations in the
Middle East with Iran and Russian supported Islamic terrorist groups. On the
way to Utopia, Mr. Obama and his cohorts set brush fires in the minds of, among
others, white men. But not to worry. The Obama script worked once. With some
minor adjustments, Mr. Malloy has asserted, it will work again.
It worked in Connecticut – twice.
Mr. Malloy, the champion of openness and “Hard Choices,”
borrowing a recipe from Maverick Governor Lowell Weicker, the father of
Connecticut’s income tax, imposed on his
state the largest tax increase in its history and arranged multi-year contracts
with state workers that boosted their salaries during the “great recession,” in
the toils of which Connecticut still founders years after the bitter waters
have receded in other business burgeoning states less susceptible to
progressive hucksters like Mr. Malloy. Louisiana is one of them.
Governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal once affronted
Connecticut’s “porcupine governor” at some unmemorable gathering of governors
in Washington DC. Moments after Mr. Malloy had been selected incoming
chair of the Democratic Governors Association, quills were thrown. Speaking to BuzzFeed reporters about Mr. Jindal -- who is not white, by the way – Mr. Malloy said, “I like
to see your facial expression when I do that. Every reporter asks me, ‘Who’s
going to be the toughest Republican candidate?’ And I’ll look you straight in
the eye and say Jindal and you all laugh… He must have been beaten up really
bad on the playground. Really bad, I think.”
Mr. Malloy’s “chair of the Democratic Governors
Association face” is not the same face he presented to Connecticut’s mostly
unquestioning media when he threw his considerable weight behind a bill that
Connecticut legislators hope will protect young children from schoolyard
bullies.
That bill -- Public Act 11-232, An Act Concerning the
Strengthening of School Bullying laws – had its genesis, according to a report
in the West Hartford News that appears on Mr. Malloy’s Governor of Connecticut website, during a “Commission on Children
forum where more than 500 people heard the Obama administration’s point person
on bullying, Kevin Jennings of the U.S. Department of Education, recommend that
every school do the following: 1) adopt a clear policy against bullying
behaviors; 2) train all staff who interact with students on how to observe,
prevent, and stop bullying; 3) ensure that all staff members take immediate
action whenever they observe bullying; and 4) gather data to assess the level
of bullying in the school. The new law requires all of these steps.”
Point well taken by all but Connecticut's quill throwing governor,
who is not expected to offer a handsome, unambiguous apology to Mr. Jindal or to the school children he had hoped to protect from intemperate bullies such as himself.
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One wonders what the reaction to Bibi Netanyahu might have been if he'd said Likud needs to speak to a broader audience than non-Jewish Arabs. One imagines that he'd still be required to apologize and that his apology would still not be good enough for that perennially dogmatically Offended Group. Similarly, if Governor manque Foley had said that Nutmeg Republicans shouldn't waste their time seeking the votes of Africans, Hispaniards, Neo-Jews, Gynos, and the various flavors of Sexually Disoriented-Americans I'm pretty sure he'd be gently scolded by our moral superiors in that Victim Coalition, even if the assertion about Republican voters makes as much political scientific sense as Whitey Malloy's observation about non-supporters of the Dem Party.
The Left feigns outrage at Nixon's southern strategy, but since the Civil War the Left has explicitly sought power through (initial) white disenfranchisement, black enfranchisement, and by appealing to the self-interests of a succession of immigrant and Other groups. We were once a nation of a particular tradition, now we are a nation of multiple cultures disallowed from acknowledging, lest we be called
racist, that actually, now that you mention it, the country was culturally, if not by Constitution, British and Christian.
Perhaps "middle-age white men" have finally recognized that the Left is hostile to their interests, and that the "civil rights" movement, which is what passes for morality these days, is an attack on our culture, but especially on white straight men as a class. Perhaps not; I sense no groundswell for White Power or for a White Caucus in the legislature. Will the liberal Jews (but, I repeat myself) wake up to the fact that the Left is anti-Israel. I doubt it, or at least I doubt it will offend them if they do wake up.
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Affirmative action or positive discrimination[1] (known as employment equity in Canada, reservation in India and Nepal, and positive action in the UK) is the policy of favoring members of a disadvantaged group who suffer from discrimination within a culture.
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It's not as if he's complaining, it's more that he is bragging. It's middle-aged white men that can be used by Lefty populist demagogues with no understanding or care for actual public policy. Personally, I doubt Malloy goes to the symphony, but he'd have been clapping like a seal if he'd been at Avery Fisher the other night.
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At the same time, he was reading of brutality toward women around the world: in Egypt, Afghanistan, and India, for example. But we were not to think we Americans were exempt from this brutality. For example, you can “find it on Rush Limbaugh.” (Rush equals the Taliban or the Muslim Brotherhood, you see.) To this remark, the audience responded with sustained and robust applause.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/416078/sick-and-twisted-culture-jay-nordlinger
"When new laws turn back the clock on progress, we can't sit idly by. We are sending a message that discrimination won't be tolerated," Malloy tweeted earlier in the day.
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Once upon a time the thirteen united British "states" south of Canada declared themselves equally entitled to self-government under God, and therefor unwilling to further affiliate themselves with the King of England. Some decades later, the Left, reading the Declaration of Independence as a mandate to end slavery, proceeded to reconstitute the country based on an ideology holding that "all men are created equal." The federal government forced the CSA back into the union on its terms, and subsequently has been on a mission, a crusade, to correct the States and their peoples when they stray from the Truth of Progress.
But, wait? Didn't Connecticut just get rid of the criminal law against adultery back in the 1980s? I'm just curious; are we still allowed to think in the privacy of our own minds that adultery is still wrong? Or are we allowed to think it as long as we don't discriminate against the Adulterer Americans who had previously been subjected to systemic oppression.
Further by the way, isn't the Nutmeg State operating public schools that are "unconstitutionally" segregated by race? Were I the Governor of Indiana I'd announce that although the states once upon a time pledged to one another their Lives, Fortunes and sacred Honor, not only will Indiana impose a boycott on Connecticut, but it will file a complaint with Eric Holder's "Justice" outfit's "civil rights division."
He knew exactly what he was doing and when you see a bigot, you have to call him on it.
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"The State has nonetheless played a significant role in the present concentration of racial and ethnic minorities in the Hartford public school system. Although intended to improve education and not racially or ethnically motivated, the districting statute that the State enacted in 1909...is the single most important factor contributing to the present concentration..." Sheff v. O'Neill 1996
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Although the Supreme Court said many years ago that the State wasn't motivated in 1909 by racial bigotry in districting its government schools, I don't think that holds water in 2015. Will Dannel and the white liberals who voted for him tear down their bigoted regulatory walls keeping black kids out of West Hartford or Westport schools?
To paraphrase Governors Maverick and Malloy, when you see a turd you have to call him on it. Our wee lawyer Governor is not qualified to shine Mike Pence's shoes. I would pay money to see a real man, Ted Cruz, demolish Dan in a debate, where Malloy's inability to read or write wouldn't be an excuse.
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Comerford spoke sternly to Benjamin Malloy, saying his criminal activity has embarrassed a family that has given a lot to the Stamford community.
"They have given you everything - it's up to you now," Comerford said. "I wish you good luck, son. Stay out of trouble, OK?"
The two felony charges Malloy pleaded guilty to carry maximum penalties combined of more than 20 years in prison...
Malloy had been arrested previously, in November 2007, on numerous drug charges after police said he sold drugs four times to an informant who was wearing a wire during a two-month police investigation.
A Superior Court judge granted Malloy accelerated rehabilitation, a probationary program for first-time offenders that if successfully completed can result in the erasure of the criminal charges. But nine months into the two-year probationary period, Malloy was arrested again in connection with the attempted armed robbery.
The two other men with Malloy during the Darien attempted robbery, Michael Krepak and Karl Hanson, both of Stamford, also received suspended sentences.
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MAYOR Dannel P. Malloy and his wife, Cathy, sat on a dark sofa in the mayor’s downtown office, gingerly assessing the newly blurred boundary between their private and public lives...
“The male brain develops at 25,” Mrs. Malloy said, repeating a line from one of the many books they’ve read over the years. “You’re searching for answers.”
Ben is the middle of three sons, who range in age from 16 to 24.
“Ultimately, Ben is responsible for his own behavior. Nothing we are saying is intended to absolve him of that responsibility,” Mr. Malloy said. “That’s not where this conversation starts or ends.”
The Malloys said little publicly after his first arrest, but Mrs. Malloy insisted on a public statement this time.
“I said to Dan, ‘We should come out in front of it,’ I think it’s really important for us to say that this is what we’re going through,” Mrs. Malloy said. “We understand that a lot of other people go through this. We’ve learned a lot about this issue.”
They said they never considered having Mr. Malloy withdraw from politics or give up his gubernatorial aspirations, no more than a doctor with a troubled son might consider stopping medicine. Politics is the family business.
“This is our life,” said Mrs. Malloy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/nyregion/connecticut/15polct.html?_r=0