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George Logan, Can the Fifth Fall To Republicans?

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It may be a trifle more difficult this coming election season for Democrats to hold on to an all Democrat U.S. Congressional Delegation. Former State Senator George Logan may be on the Republican ticket next year, and voters in Connecticut’s 5th District may no longer be comfortable with postmodern progressives in the U.S. Congress.

Logan was the only Black member of the state Senate’s GOP caucus during his two term tenure. He is an engineer and a business man who, as CTMirror noted, “does not shrink from identity politics.” He hopes to unseat “U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes, D-5th District, a political novice in 2018 when she became the first Black woman elected to Congress from Connecticut and one of the first two in New England.”

Within the past few elections, Democrats have stumbled badly in Connecticut’s 5th U.S. Congressional District. A 2014 piece in Connecticut Commentary, Taking the Fifth, surveyed the pratfalls:

“The FBI intervention began when the struggle for the 5th District U.S. Congressional seat left vacant after Chris Murphy’s elevation to the U.S. Senate seemed to be a contest between then Speaker of the State House Chris Donovan and an assortment of Republican hopefuls that included longtime State Senate leader Andrew Roraback, a late entry into the Republican primary… Mr. Donovan, an early favorite, ran into an FBI sting operation in the course of which he was forced to withdraw from the race after federal prosecutors had indicted several of his campaign staff” on charges of financial irregularities.

Donovan left the scene with his pants on fire, and Elizabeth Esty became the Democrat nominee. She served three terms and then encountered a “MeToo” moment.

“Esty,” Connecticut Commentary reported in A Friendless Esty Calls It Quits, “had failed to discharge her chief of staff, who had abused a woman in her office. The victim had reported instances of abuse to the police and Esty throughout 2014. A threatening e-mail written by the abuser in 2016 – ‘You better f-----g reply to me or I will f-----g kill you’ – was reason enough for an immediate dismissal, but Esty chose, after consulting her lawyers, to present her former chief of staff, dismissed three months after the threatening e-mail had been received and reported, with a non-disclosure agreement, a payoff of $5,000, and a job recommendation that secured employment for the abuser with Sandy Hook Promise, an organization formed after the Sandy Hook Elementary School slaughter to encourage legislation regulating the sale of guns.”  

CTLatinoNews.com thinks Logan may have a chance in 2022, and Sacred Heart Political Science Professor Gary Rose has said in an interview with NBC Connecticut that “things are looking good for the Republican Party in next year’s midterm elections.”

What things?

At the moment, Rose says, all polls are “lining up on behalf of the Republicans.” And even though Biden will not be on the ticket in 2022, “people nevertheless will identify the president with the larger party.”

We’ve been down this route in Connecticut before with former President Donald Trump. In the last off-year presidential election, Democrats in Connecticut were able to hang Trump as a lodestone around the necks of Republicans who had been unwilling to denounce the titular head of their party.

"Politics ain't beanbag," said Mr. Dooley, a fictional Irish American bartender who liked to expand on politics in his Chicago bar. But politics does involve hurling bean bags at political opponents, and what better beanbag for Democrats than Trump, falsely vilified for nearly his whole term in office as a stooge of Russian President Vladimir Putin. We now know, thanks to intrepid journalists who exposed a so called Trump “dossier” as a Hillary Clinton inspired opposition research beanbag, that there was more shell than meat to that empty nut.

The Biden polls show a precipitous dip in the President’s favorable/unfavorable ratings, some of which are related to the President’s surrender of Afghanistan to women domineering terrorists, his reckless open border policies, and a major inflationary jump which, those involved in politics will recall, was partly responsible for Jimmy Carter’s landslide loss to Ronald Reagan, who recovered the U.S Senate for Republicans in 1980 for the first time since 1952. Carter’s foreign policy humiliations included the abduction of American embassy staff in Iran and successful power grabs by pro-Soviet governments that had taken power in Angola, Ethiopia, Nicaragua and Afghanistan.

All the indicators just now – especially a perdurable, agonizingly long inflation period -- suggest that Biden, very slow on the uptake, may well be the Democrats Jimmy Carter of 2022. Republicans running for office in Connecticut would be foolish not to rip a page from the Democrat Party playbook and run against Biden in the upcoming elections, and never mind that he will not be on the Party ticket.


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