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From: timmckee at mail.comTo: ctgp-news at ml.greens.orgDate: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:45:12 -0500Subject: {news} (Manchester J.I.) Green enters race in 1st Congessional



Connecticut


Green Party candidate enters race in 1st Congressional District


By Kimberly PhillipsJournal Inquirer
Published: Friday, April 18, 2008 12:12 PM EDT
A Green Party challenger has announced that he will run for U.S. Rep. John B. Larson’s seat, saying the five-term Democrat hasn’t done enough to fight President Bush.“He’s a very nice fellow, thoughtful and caring and all the things you’d want in a public official — except resolve,” candidate Stephen Fournier of Hartford said Thursday of the Larson. “He was lacking in that.”Fournier, who is a lawyer and only recently joined the Green Party after having been a Republican for the last five years, said his candidacy is something he agreed to after participating in a discussion group that focused on talk of presidential impeachment.The informal group came to the conclusion that there’s “ample evidence they’ve committed serious crimes,” Fournier said of Bush and Vice President Cheney.After reaching this conclusion, Fournier said, he met with Larson to discuss the matter further and presented him with a dozen questions asking Larson what could be done and whether he’d be willing to do anything.But, Fournier said, he didn’t get a satisfactory answer, prompting his campaign for the 1st Congressional District seat, which he said is rooted in fighting against “lawlessness in government.”“I’m not unrealistic; I certainly wouldn’t expect to win,” Fournier said of his campaign in the Democrat-heavy district, adding that he hopes only to shift discussions “leftward.”He noted, however, “Of course, I would like to win the election, but I’m a nobody.”Fournier’s resume is extensive. He served in the U.S. Air Force as a Hungarian language voice-intercept processing specialist from 1966 to 1970, and went on to graduate from the University of Connecticut in 1973 and its law school in 1978.Among other jobs, he’s been Hartford’s assistant corporation counsel and legal editor and managing editor of Business & Legal Reports Inc. He also is a self-taught painter, cartoonist, and computer programmer. Fournier served on Hartford’s Board of Education from 1995 to 1997.While he joined the Green Party only within the last year, Fournier said, he worked on Ralph Nader’s last two presidential bids and on campaigns for others running for state office, having been active with the party for the last decade.In addition to Larson, of East Hartford, West Hartford Republican Joe Visconti has announced his candidacy in the 1st District, which includes East Hartford, East Windsor, Manchester, South Windsor, Windsor, and Windsor Locks.Fournier said he hasn’t met Visconti but said that “West Hartford politicians have been very effective in getting things done.”Visconti is a first-term town councilman who describes himself as an “activist” and unsuccessfully led the fight against the public financing of Blue Back Square. He is likely to receive the party’s nomination during the convention May 10.Two years ago, New Canaan resident Miriam Masullo unsuccessfully contested the Republicans’ choice, sending the nomination to a primary.

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