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Headline:Surprise !!!! Well Financed And Wealthy Wealthy Greenwich Guy Will Defeat Under financed Greenwich Lady Who Lives In Affordable Housing
Will Lee Whitnu's 15 minutes Of Fame Be Over Tomorrow's Democratic Primary
Quotes:
“My life has been greatly affected by politicians who I view as being out-of-touch or in the pockets of special interest groups,” Lee Whitnum said. “We need to elect people who are savvy. I speak the truth and if that’s too much, then vote for the other guy.”
“We have the costliest system in the industrialized world, with sub-par results,” said Mr. Himes supports a public/private hybrid of universal health care. “If we are going to cover everybody, we have to be creative about reducing costs within the system.”
“Sorry, if you’re illegal, start the process,” Lee Whitnum said of illegal immigrants . “If it means returning home for a while, that’s the way it is.”
The Story:
Primary battle set for Tuesday, Democrats pick their challenger
Fourth Congressional District Democrats will decide Tuesday which of two Greenwich residents will get the chance to challenge the only New England Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Jim Himes, the Democratic Party’s convention-endorsed candidate, is being challenged by fellow Greenwich resident Lee Whitnum...
...Mr. Himes, 42, is a former Greenwich Democratic Town Committee chairman. “We’re taking this very seriously, even though Ms. Whitnum has taken positions which can charitably be described as out of the mainstream,” Mr. Himes told Hersam Acorn Newspapers on Monday.
The 48-year-old Greenwich resident and substitute teacher openly admits she’s raw and unpolished and doesn’t always say what people want to hear, from immigration to the war in Afghanistan — particularly in comparison to her party-endorsed competition.
But, she said, her voice is the only one speaking for the people.
“You can’t buy the heart and soul and experience I bring to this campaign,” she told Hersam Acorn Newspapers last week. “And people know when you’re one of the people.”....
MORE:
Turnout is expected to be low for the Democrats’ 4th Congressional District primary between party-convention-endorsed Jim Himes and petitioning candidate Lee Whitnum.
Board looks to keep Glenville kids together
The school board’s self-imposed “drop dead date” of Aug. 8 is about to come and go without the new Hamilton Avenue School getting its temporary certificate of occupancy (TCO). In an effort to avoid dispersing Glenville School students throughout district schools this fall as their school goes under construction, the school board is reconsidering its options.
On July 29, the board approved a plan that if a TCO was received by Aug. 8, it would delay opening Hamilton Avenue and allow the Glenville students to use the modulars for the regularly scheduled Aug. 27 opening of school. Glenville School is scheduled to be demolished this summer, but where students will be in the fall remains a mystery since the modular classrooms they are scheduled to use might still be needed by Hamilton Avenue if construction of the new school isn’t complete.....
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