{"id":180408,"date":"2017-04-27T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/04\/27\/happy-dance-time\/"},"modified":"2017-04-27T18:55:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T23:55:00","slug":"happy-dance-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/04\/27\/happy-dance-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Dance Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Out Standing!<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/div>\n

A member of Connecticut’s Working Families Party has just won their first ever seat in the Connecticut General Assembly<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Union leader Joshua Hall became the first Working Families Party candidate to win a seat in the state House, collecting 41 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s 7th District special election.<\/span>

<\/span> Hall, vice president of the Hartford Federation of Teachers and a former Weaver High School teacher, received 625 votes in an upset of Rickey Pinckney, the Democratic-endorsed candidate, who received 512 votes, and petitioning candidate Kenneth Green, who took 367 votes, according to unofficial election results released late Tuesday by Democratic Registrar of Voters Giselle Feliciano.<\/span>

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<\/span> Hall’s win marks just the second time a Working Families Party candidate has won a legislative seat. Ed Gomes<\/a> was elected to the Senate in a 2015 special election. <\/span>

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<\/span> all has leaned heavily on his experience in education and promised to fight for resources that the district needs, including school funding. Earlier this month, he said he opposed a plan by the governor to have municipalities pick up a portion of teacher pension costs \u2014 a proposal that would cost Hartford about $17 million.<\/span>

<\/span> “That $17 million is going to break Hartford Public Schools. It’s going to break the city,” he said. “I’m going to make sure that it does not happen.”<\/span>

<\/span> In his statement, he also said he would prioritize the availability of good jobs, strong neighborhoods and a “just budget.”<\/span>

<\/span> “That starts with eliminating backdoor tax increases on working families and setting budget policy that generates revenue without harmful cuts,” Hall said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One hopes that the sort of bottom-up campaigning will be a trend. <\/p>\n

The high profile campaigns for Governor, Senator, and President favored by parties like the Greens has been shown to neither win elections nor build the party.<\/p>\n

Until there is a meaningful force to hold the Democratic party to account for completely ignoring their promises of a just society, they will never keep their promises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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