Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State

Members of Connecticut’s Democrat State Central Committee on July 22 voted unanimously to pull the eject lever on Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States, and Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States, widely considered the father of the modern Democratic Party. On a unanimous voice vote, the names of the two gentlemen were stripped from the Party’s annual “Jefferson, Jackson, Bailey Dinner.” The Confederate Flag lowered permanently from a flagpole on the lawn of the State Capitol in South Carolina following the racist-terrorist murder of nine churchgoers at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church has brought down more than a flag. On the 67 th  year of the annual Jefferson, Jackson, Bailey fete, Connecticut Democrats awakened suddenly to  the slaver pasts of both Jefferson and Jackson.   U.S. Congresswoman  Rosa DeLauro stoutly resisted  the effort to airbrush Mr. Jefferson from Democratic Party history. The th...