{news} Stamford Times: John Reilly on Duffee's exclusion

[David Bedell]

John Reilly writes a summary of each week's political developments for the
Stamford Times.  It looks like he actually read Richard's flyer--I don't
think any other journalist has summarized a Green platform so well; they
usually just pick out one point, if they mention the platform at all.

http://www.thestamfordtimes.com/story/457929

Republican Chris Shays and his challenger Jim Himes for the 4th District
congressional seat met for the umpteenth time in the Chamber of
Commerce/Patriot Bank-sponsored debate last week.

Himes seemed more self-assured than in earlier outings, and Shays, armed as
always with an armful of documents and notebooks, was his professorial self.
It got a little heated at times, but, again, I don't think any votes were
changed.

Shays's aides passed out an 88-page booklet, which he called "A record of
Independent, Bipartisan and Effective Leadership."

Meanwhile, the man who wasn't there, Richard Duffee, the Green Party
candidate, was denied access to the debate. His supporters picketed on the
sidewalk outside the Norwalk Inn & Conference Center.

Duffee campaigns for nuclear disarmament, stopping global warming,
international economic reforms, closing Guantanamo Bay, restoring taxes on
millionaires, a single-payer universal health coverage system, ending "the
phony war on drugs."

Oh, yes -- and impeach Bush and Cheney "domestic enemies of the
Constitution."