Former Connecticut Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz today provided a strong hint about her U.S. Senate primary strategy against Democratic frontrunner Congressman Chris Murphy: barbecue special interests, run as a party outsider. SuBy has a history of waging primaries, it’s how she became the state’s top elections official. She released her “Accountability plan to hold Wall Street, corporate special interests and Washington accountable.”
Murphy is raising shiploads of campaign cash while working Democratic party regulars for the state convention in May. Other Dem candidates in the race include State Rep. William Tong and drug-reform crusader Sylvester Salcedo. The Republican side is led by former Congressman Chris Shays and Linda McMahon. Party primaries will take place in August. From SuBy:
This morning Susan Bysiewicz released her Accountability Plan using Twitter and Facebook. The Accountability Plan provides a comprehensive set of proposals to hold Wall Street, corporate special interests, and Washington Accountable to the middle class. Bysiewicz provides an overview of her Accountability Plan in a video on new website which is focused on six specific ideas on how to rebuild the middle class. Over the next several weeks Bysiewicz’s Senate campaign will release a new video explaining each of the ideas outlined in the Accountability Plan.
The Accountability Plan consists of six specific things that can be done to hold Wall Street, Corporate Special Interests, and Washington accountable:
1. Make Wall Street pay back the money they cost the middle class and help homeowners crushed by mortgage debt
2. End corporate welfare and the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy
3. Have real reform in Washington. Specifically that means no more earmarks, no gifts from lobbyists, and non-partisan Congressional districts
4. Require utility companies to buy clean American Energy
5. End the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and reduce our troop levels in Europe and Japan
6. Ensuring that Democrats keep their word with immigration reform by ensuring that there is a path to citizenship
Watch her video at www.susansplan.com
Her plan susanforct.com/issues/accountability-plan/
*** As a Dem I like Shays in this race! ***
Susan Bysiewicz doesn’t generate much enthusiasm at any level of government. As Sec’y of the State she didn’t even know she needed to be a 10-year practicing attorney to qualify to run for Attorney General of Connecticut. Do we need someone so ill-informed to represent us in the federal government? I don’t think so.