Uh oh. Unaffiliated CT Gov candidate Joe Visconti has just endorsed Tom Foley

[MANative]

http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Visconti-Endorses-Foley-for-Governor-281222961.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_CTBrand

He's been polling at about 7% with Foley and Malloy each at 43%. This is scary.

[hrmjustin]

1. Damn!

[MANative]

2. My first reaction was also a four-letter word, but not that one. Ends in "k".

Feeling pretty certain that this was planned all along.

[Dawson Leery]

3. This may be too late.

Visconti is on the ballot (an all absentee's have been sent in).
I expect him to take at least 2% on Tuesday.

[MANative]

4. That certainly did cross my mind, too. I'm also hoping that...

people are so tired of all the hype that they've stopped listening, and won't pay attention to this. May not be a very realistic hope, but I've got to hang on to something.

[customerserviceguy]

5. True, not a lot of time to get that news out there

Had he done it a week earlier, it might well have had some impact. Still, based on my personal observations, I expect Malloy to lose. I see a lot of CT license plates on the Garden State Parkway every morning that I sure didn't see five years ago.

[noiretextatique]

8. maybe it is his union busting past

They [former T.B. Wood's workers] say Foley fired hundreds of members of United Auto Workers Local 695 and brought less-skilled replacements into the plant he bought in 1986 and took over from the last of the family owners just before the 1990 strike. Foley sold the company in 2007 for about $40 million in his accumulated stock holdings.

When the 325 union members narrowly turned down a three-year contract, Foley refused to return to the bargaining table in the township of about 20,000 people, 50 miles southwest of Harrisburg.

A new contract was never settled, the strike finally fizzled out in 1993 and the UAW local died. Along the way, workers lost their homes, pulled children from college and tightened their belts while living on $100-a-week strike wages.

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/In-The-States/A-Peek-into-Tom-Foley-s-Past-Broke-the-Back-of-the-Union-the-Heart-of-Their-Town

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

10. No way! You can't be on a Democratic Underground forum talking against unions. Are you a troll?

Treat lightly!

[noiretextatique]

11. so he did a good think by busting the union?

i am old enough to remember when the US auto industry was actually trying to make fuel-efficient cars. and now...they are making gas-guzzling muscle cars again. how, exactly, does that help anyone besides shareholders? perhaps if they had to fend for themselves, they'd make better decisions, like the businesses in the real world who don't have the option of running to the government to bail them out for the bad decisions they continue to make.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

13. Thanks so much! You caught that, too!

Real patriot!