Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...will win the Connecticut General Assembly...
...contrast, is the year of anxiety—when I await the answer to this question as an intern in the office of my oxymoronic comrades, the Connecticut Republicans. Lacking the glamour of a live campaign, the party headquarters offers only a knot of sullen political junkies who reminisce of better days. Still, as a longtime Connecticut Republican, the frustration of being in the minority has only reaffirmed my hope of kicking the Democrats out of office. Working for a political party in a non-election year has molded me from a sunshine ideologue into a true believer...
...Connecticut, of course, is Democratic turf. In 2006, the Democrats won a two-thirds majority in both houses of the legislature, relegating the reelected Republican Governor, M. Jodi Rell, to the role of official figurehead. Republican incumbents Nancy Johnson and Rob Simmons lost their hard-earned Congressional seats to Democratic newbies Chris Murphy and Joe Courtney. After their massive victory, starry-eyed Democrats fantasized about what they might do with such power...
From our office in Hartford, we Connecticut Republicans can only watch in horror. But life as an intern for the minority party does not consist solely of predicting the world's demise over the water cooler. In fact, I am running a cold campaign: helping town committee chairmen navigate campaign finance regulations, planning local television ads, and researching all that Congressman Murphy does wrong. Non-election years are the time for contemplation and preparation, when Republicans see the consequences of their defeat and remember why they even run against Democrats in the first place...
...aging, taciturn mobster, but, hey, this is a romantic comedy of a sorts and stranger things than that have happened over the years in that genre. I mean, by what logic did Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn find themselves keeping company with a leopard in rural Connecticut...