10/30/08 Politician's Are Deathly Afraid Of People Power - They Don't Want Others Setting The Agenda

Leaders Nix Constitutional Convention

When you mark your ballot on Election Day, you will be asked to vote "yes" or "no" on the following question:

"Shall there be a Constitutional Convention to amend or revise the Constitution of the State? "

Greenwich's Katie the Curlers, Joe Six-Pack and Joe the Plumber - as well as other voters in Fairfield County and Connecticut - probably don't have the foggiest notion of how to vote on that question. Perhaps only constitutional lawyers and other intellectual high-brows will not need help in taking a position on the question.

But don't despair over being left on the outside trying to peer into the intelligentsia's craniums.

For we low-brow dumb-bells, guidance aplenty gushed last week from a Stamford gathering of Fairfield County leaders invited to speak out on how to vote on the question.

The meeting was sponsored by the "Vote No Coalition." Knowing that, you don't know to be an Einstein to surmise the advice was - Vote no.

Speakers included Mayor Dannel Malloy of Stamford, Bob Madore, UAW Region 9A; Rudy Marconi, First Selectman of Ridgefield and Greenwich's Cheryl Dunson, president of the League of Women Voters. Congressional candidate Jim Himes and congressman Chris Shays both issued statements ....

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