Comments on: See The Lights, Plus: Council Contract Hit And Shays Hits The Gas http://onlyinbridgeport.com/wordpress/see-the-lights-plus-council-contract-hit-and-shays-hits-the-gas/ with Lennie Grimaldi Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:32:13 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: The Bridgeport Kid http://onlyinbridgeport.com/wordpress/see-the-lights-plus-council-contract-hit-and-shays-hits-the-gas/#comment-3895 The Bridgeport Kid Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:21:14 +0000 http://onlyinbridgeport.com/wordpress/?p=143#comment-3895 Up Yours Bridgeport, How did you slip in here? You're the only one that doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about. Up Yours Bridgeport,
How did you slip in here? You’re the only one that doesn’t know what the fuck he’s talking about.

]]> By: Up On Bridgeport http://onlyinbridgeport.com/wordpress/see-the-lights-plus-council-contract-hit-and-shays-hits-the-gas/#comment-3878 Up On Bridgeport Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:42:54 +0000 http://onlyinbridgeport.com/wordpress/?p=143#comment-3878 Yahooy Freudian Slip? Bridgeport Bust and Train Station 19.25 million dollars. Is that a statue that's being erected in his honor. Yahooy

Freudian Slip?
Bridgeport Bust and Train Station 19.25 million dollars.

Is that a statue that’s being erected in his honor.

]]> By: yahooy http://onlyinbridgeport.com/wordpress/see-the-lights-plus-council-contract-hit-and-shays-hits-the-gas/#comment-3876 yahooy Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:08:04 +0000 http://onlyinbridgeport.com/wordpress/?p=143#comment-3876 The following are just a few of the many programs that Congressman Christopher Shays has done specifically for Bridgeport: One coast One Future $1 million Center for women $ 377,000 Bridgeport Bust and Train Station $19.25 million Seaview Avenue Corridor $12.25 million Bridgeport Hi Speed Ferry $6.65 million Bridgeport Public Schools $26.4 million East End Improvement $600,000 New Beginnings $373,000 ABCD $5.8 million Bpt. Police, Fire, EMT $7.2 million Bpt. Port Security $1.4 million Brownfields clean up $24.5 million Work Place Job Training $2.6 million Community Dev Block Grant $7.1 million Hall-Brooke $491,000 St. Vincents $650,000 You dyed in the wool democrats are uninformed and you make baseless statements that Shays has done nothing for Bridgeport. Yet his record in Bridgeport funding is not equalled by any other District 4 Congressman including St. Robert Giamo. I have asked Shays to publish the Bridgeport funding initiatives that he has in the pipeline and are currently under consideration. This list is as impressive as those funding programs already received. Shays is not only an effective legislator, he is a compassionate person who works hard to make sure that Bridgeport receives as much as possible. As far as his Conscientious Objector status during Viet Nam, we must remember that he was a divinity student at the time. 100% of the graduates of the Yale Divinity School in 1966, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71 and 72 sought Conscientious Objector status as did most divinity students through out the country. Shays didn't flee to Canada. He served honorably in the Peace Corps. At that time, the nation asked its young men to serve their country. Some fixed bayonets, others fixed the depraved in 3d world countries. I am comfortable with Shays choice as I am with all who made similar choices. The cowards who burned draft cards and became Canadians suffer my wrath. Shays is a good man. He is a good legislator. He has experience, vision, drive and credibility. Himes is a good guy too. He's rich. Anything else qualify him to sit in Shay's chair? The following are just a few of the many programs that Congressman Christopher Shays has done specifically for Bridgeport:

One coast One Future $1 million
Center for women $ 377,000
Bridgeport Bust and Train Station $19.25 million
Seaview Avenue Corridor $12.25 million
Bridgeport Hi Speed Ferry $6.65 million
Bridgeport Public Schools $26.4 million
East End Improvement $600,000
New Beginnings $373,000
ABCD $5.8 million
Bpt. Police, Fire, EMT $7.2 million
Bpt. Port Security $1.4 million
Brownfields clean up $24.5 million
Work Place Job Training $2.6 million
Community Dev Block Grant $7.1 million
Hall-Brooke $491,000
St. Vincents $650,000

You dyed in the wool democrats are uninformed and you make baseless statements that Shays has done nothing for Bridgeport. Yet his record in Bridgeport funding is not equalled by any other District 4 Congressman including St. Robert Giamo.

I have asked Shays to publish the Bridgeport funding initiatives that he has in the pipeline and are currently under consideration. This list is as impressive as those funding programs already received.

Shays is not only an effective legislator, he is a compassionate person who works hard to make sure that Bridgeport receives as much as possible.

As far as his Conscientious Objector status during Viet Nam, we must remember that he was a divinity student at the time. 100% of the graduates of the Yale Divinity School in 1966, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71 and 72 sought Conscientious Objector status as did most divinity students through out the country.

Shays didn’t flee to Canada. He served honorably in the Peace Corps. At that time, the nation asked its young men to serve their country. Some fixed bayonets, others fixed the depraved in 3d world countries. I am comfortable with Shays choice as I am with all who made similar choices. The cowards who burned draft cards and became Canadians suffer my wrath.

Shays is a good man. He is a good legislator. He has experience, vision, drive and credibility.

Himes is a good guy too. He’s rich. Anything else qualify him to sit in Shay’s chair?

]]> By: independent soul http://onlyinbridgeport.com/wordpress/see-the-lights-plus-council-contract-hit-and-shays-hits-the-gas/#comment-3875 independent soul Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:07:59 +0000 http://onlyinbridgeport.com/wordpress/?p=143#comment-3875 clichebpt "the Democrats exhibited serious fiscal responsibility under Clinton, and Bush and the Republican Congress led this country into a recession and got us into debt so deep we’ll never get out" What planet are you from? Clinton had a dem congress for 2 yrs and all that happened was Hillary healthcare. When the repubs took congress we had fiscal stability and the charm of a dem in the white house. Divided gov't worked. Then we get Bush and a repub congress and bad times for all. In 2006, divided gov't again and this time even more trouble. The Pelosi congress had the worst public opinion #'s EVER. It's obvious republicans need to have congress and dems need the white house when we're not at war. OBAMA and SHAYS. clichebpt

“the Democrats exhibited serious fiscal responsibility under Clinton, and Bush and the Republican Congress led this country into a recession and got us into debt so deep we’ll never get out”

What planet are you from? Clinton had a dem congress for 2 yrs and all that happened was Hillary healthcare. When the repubs took congress we had fiscal stability and the charm of a dem in the white house. Divided gov’t worked. Then we get Bush and a repub congress and bad times for all. In 2006, divided gov’t again and this time even more trouble. The Pelosi congress had the worst public opinion #’s EVER. It’s obvious republicans need to have congress and dems need the white house when we’re not at war. OBAMA and SHAYS.

]]> By: clichebpt http://onlyinbridgeport.com/wordpress/see-the-lights-plus-council-contract-hit-and-shays-hits-the-gas/#comment-3874 clichebpt Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:39:21 +0000 http://onlyinbridgeport.com/wordpress/?p=143#comment-3874 Yahooy, first you say you agree with Wondering (I do) but then you say you're supporting Shays. Appointment of a relative notwithstanding, what record of accomplishment does he have? Has Shays gotten Bridgeport much Federal attention, or been rescued by Federal money since he has been there? I-95 gets worse everyday, he may talk a good game but just what has Shays produced? I don't like the fact that he was a conscientious objector in Vietnam and now he is all hawk. Or the fact that he let Bush and his oil buddies continue for months to fuel oil speculation (no pun intended) and what does he propose? Nothing Rep. Blumenaur did and Shays said okee dokee, more people car-pooling, yeah that's the ticket carpooling, yeah or maybe wait biking. Is Shays going to put some bike paths between here and Stamford, or any streets for that matter? Oh and that startling epiphany, "Oh my god, foreign oil! Yeah that's it, we are addicted to foreign oil." Even Bush figured out that one. Do you have a plan? Alternate energy, gas rationing (oh wait that hurts Bush, Cheney et al.), stop the federal cash IV to companies who are making Billions of dollars in profit? What has Shays done except watch this country and Bush kill our civil rights, kill the economy and approve Bush's borrow and spend strategy so that China owns more US property than we do? Yahooy call me a dedicated Democrat all you want (PS read my past posts as it shows I am not a blind Democrat), I take it as a compliment, but the Democrats exhibited serious fiscal responsibility under Clinton, and Bush and the Republican Congress led this country into a recession and got us into debt so deep we'll never get out. Shays stood idly by while his pal Bush raked this country over the coals and happily watched while Bush lied to this country about going to war with IRAQ. So why Yahooy, if you are a registered Democrat what specifically do you like about Shays? If this makes me Philistine of the week until October, I will happily were that badge. Himes gives us hope, hope for change. He has that Mr. Smith goes to Washington quality of real concern for the people. He started out with nothing, worked his way into the American Dream and then what did he do? He went into the business of trying to represent the people and address their needs. He did this to give back. He did it out of a concern for others. Shays is a career politician that is well practiced in saying what he thinks the people want to hear and then changing his mind. When Obama wins and with a Democratic controlled Congress, Shays won't get a porta-potty to urinate in. Yahooy, first you say you agree with Wondering (I do) but then you say you’re supporting Shays. Appointment of a relative notwithstanding, what record of accomplishment does he have? Has Shays gotten Bridgeport much Federal attention, or been rescued by Federal money since he has been there? I-95 gets worse everyday, he may talk a good game but just what has Shays produced? I don’t like the fact that he was a conscientious objector in Vietnam and now he is all hawk. Or the fact that he let Bush and his oil buddies continue for months to fuel oil speculation (no pun intended) and what does he propose? Nothing Rep. Blumenaur did and Shays said okee dokee, more people car-pooling, yeah that’s the ticket carpooling, yeah or maybe wait biking. Is Shays going to put some bike paths between here and Stamford, or any streets for that matter? Oh and that startling epiphany, “Oh my god, foreign oil! Yeah that’s it, we are addicted to foreign oil.” Even Bush figured out that one. Do you have a plan? Alternate energy, gas rationing (oh wait that hurts Bush, Cheney et al.), stop the federal cash IV to companies who are making Billions of dollars in profit? What has Shays done except watch this country and Bush kill our civil rights, kill the economy and approve Bush’s borrow and spend strategy so that China owns more US property than we do? Yahooy call me a dedicated Democrat all you want (PS read my past posts as it shows I am not a blind Democrat), I take it as a compliment, but the Democrats exhibited serious fiscal responsibility under Clinton, and Bush and the Republican Congress led this country into a recession and got us into debt so deep we’ll never get out. Shays stood idly by while his pal Bush raked this country over the coals and happily watched while Bush lied to this country about going to war with IRAQ. So why Yahooy, if you are a registered Democrat what specifically do you like about Shays? If this makes me Philistine of the week until October, I will happily were that badge. Himes gives us hope, hope for change. He has that Mr. Smith goes to Washington quality of real concern for the people. He started out with nothing, worked his way into the American Dream and then what did he do? He went into the business of trying to represent the people and address their needs. He did this to give back. He did it out of a concern for others. Shays is a career politician that is well practiced in saying what he thinks the people want to hear and then changing his mind. When Obama wins and with a Democratic controlled Congress, Shays won’t get a porta-potty to urinate in.

]]> By: BobBlackRock http://onlyinbridgeport.com/wordpress/see-the-lights-plus-council-contract-hit-and-shays-hits-the-gas/#comment-3873 BobBlackRock Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:18:49 +0000 http://onlyinbridgeport.com/wordpress/?p=143#comment-3873 Lennie, Good comments about the city needing to promote itself better...or, at all. People in other parts of this state are still amazed at all we have to offer down here in Bridgeport when they come and visit. Lennie,
Good comments about the city needing to promote itself better…or, at all. People in other parts of this state are still amazed at all we have to offer down here in Bridgeport when they come and visit.

]]> By: City Kitty http://onlyinbridgeport.com/wordpress/see-the-lights-plus-council-contract-hit-and-shays-hits-the-gas/#comment-3872 City Kitty Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:10:42 +0000 http://onlyinbridgeport.com/wordpress/?p=143#comment-3872 yahooy is a democrat?? and here all the while i thought he was a republican! My mistake. good one Warren! yahooy is a democrat?? and here all the while i thought he was a republican! My mistake. good one Warren!

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