{news} Davis is out of race

[Green Party-CT]

    Davis is out of race    Wednesday, January 11, 2006   BY DAVID PARKER     Copyright © 2006 Republican-American   PLYMOUTH -- Bill C. Davis, prize-winning playwright and local resident, is no longer a candidate for Congress.
  Davis confirmed Tuesday he has withdrawn as a Green Party candidate for the 5th Congressional District seat held for 12 terms by Republican Nancy Johnson of New Britain.
  The dramatist, whose "Mass Appeal" and other works have played to full houses and strong reviews both in this country and overseas, launched his political campaign late last summer. 
  Davis decided to drop the effort, he said, after seeing disarray in Green ranks that he felt would disrupt the campaign.
  He said the recent decision of longtime Green leader Tom Sevigny of Canton to resign his party roles was a big factor in his own thinking.
  
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"Tom had encouraged me and been an inspiration to me," Davis said.   
  Davis' decision leaves Johnson, who is expected to seek a 13th term this November, with at least two announced challengers, both Democrats. They are state Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Cheshire, and Paul Vance Jr., chairman of the Board of Aldermen in Waterbury.
  As for Davis, he said that "I will just keep doing what I do, writing plays, many of which have both a political element and a personal story." 
  Current projects, he said, include a new drama, "Spine," which recently had a workshop performance in New York, and another work, "The Sex King









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