{news} RE: CT's Fournier- NBHerald- Fighting for the "damaged and discouraged"

[Zack Beatty]

Tim,

Nice!     Do you have a link to article?

-Zack

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>   1.  CT's Fournier- NBHerald- Fighting for the "damaged and
>      discouraged" (Tim McKee)
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> From: "Tim McKee" <timmckee at mail.com>
> To: "CT Greens News" <ctgp-news at ml.greens.org>
> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:07:37 -0500
> Subject: {news} CT's Fournier- NBHerald- Fighting for the "damaged and
> discouraged"
>
> New Britian Herald
>    08/17/2008 Green Party candidate wants to fight for 'damaged and
> discouraged'  By STEVE COLLINS , Journal Register News Service
>   BRISTOL - Green Party congressional hopeful Steve Fournier, of Hartford,
> offers a strikingly different agenda than those put forward by major party
> candidates.
>
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> "I think our country is in the toilet and I'm willing to go in there and
> pull it out," Fournier said. "Cleaning up Congress is a dirty job ... and
> somebody has to do it."
>
> Fournier, 62, said that volunteers have collected more than 3,000
> signatures in the 1st District that "make it all but certain" that he'll be
> on the November ballot against U.S. Rep. John Larson, an East Hartford
> Democrat, and Republican challenger Joe Visconti, of West Hartford.
>
> To reach the ballot, a petitioning candidate needs 2,050 verified
> signatures from registered voters, a determination that should be made soon.
>
> Fournier's campaign aims "to vindicate us with our grandchildren. They will
> certainly defile our graves if we don't make big changes now."
>
> Fournier, a community activist, said he personally got 900 signatures - and
> talked with those who signed.
>
> "The people I've been talking to are angry, but they're also afraid. Afraid
> to dissent and afraid to look powerless and foolish," he said.
>
> Fournier said that people are looking away from what the nation's leaders
> have done to the country during the past generation.
>
> "The criminals who govern us have injured our earth, damaged our republic,
> put us in mortal danger and we go on as if everything were fine, seemingly
> unaware of our dire situation," Fournier said in a pamphlet.
>
> "My conversations tell me that we are not unaware and that we are seething
> with repressed rage. Witnesses to an atrocity, we turn away because we feel
> unable to act," he said.
>
> "We're told that enemies are in our midst," Fournier said, "and our biggest
> fear is not that any of the million or so terrorists out there will do us
> any harm but that we will be counted among them."
>
> "And so we take off our shoes in the airport and buy newspapers that lie to
> us and pretend to support the troops and stay away from political gatherings
> of all kinds," he said.
>
> "It's not that people are apathetic or complacent. We're damaged and
> discouraged," Fournier said.
>
> Fournier, a Vietnam veteran, said that "racketeers and their henchmen now
> govern America."
>
> "The two major political parties have been complicit in the racket and have
> furthered it by trashing the Bill of Rights, undermining the rule of law and
> effectively repealing all checks on executive power," he said.
>
> "Most recently, our leaders have waged two wars to advance their political
> ends and lost both of them, as all responsible authorities predicted they
> would," Fournier said.
>
> "They have long since quit regulating the big, anti-national corporations
> that control public policy, resulting in the widespread abuse of workers,
> poor quality goods, mass export of jobs, declines in public health and
> happiness, environmental pollution, the concentration of wealth in a few
> hands and a failing economy," he said.
>
> "These problems can't be addressed until Americans undertake the
> restoration of Constitutional government," Fournier said. "This candidacy -
> the candidate is a troublemaker and whistleblower - is an expression of
> urgency."
>
> Fournier said he's been active in politics since he left the Air Force in
> 1970 and got involved in the anti-war movement and left-wing politics. In
> the years since, he said, he's been a Democrat, a Republican and a Green
> Party member.
>
> With the exception of a brief stint on the Hartford Board of Education a
> decade ago when he helped convince the state to take over Hartford's
> troubled public schools, Fournier's been an activist and outsider.
>
> Larson has rolled over challengers since winning the 1st District in 1998.
>
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