08/28/10 Dirty Deals Done Dirt Cheap In Greenwich: Billionaire's Throw Off Some Of There Chump Change To Kill Financial Reform

When Greenwich Resident Steven Cohen Says Frog Dan Debicella Had Better Jump. If Cohen Says Jump Debicella Had Better Ask,"How High?"

You Wont Read This In The Greenwich Time.....

Billionaires Say Forget About Financial Reform...

How much do you want to bet that Dan Debicella

is not going to be a big fan of financial reform?

Yesterday cash strapped congressional candidate wana-be Dan Debicella startedbegging for $35.000 to be donated in five days, so that the national republican party would give him money in his effort to replace Congressman Jim Himes.

But Who Is Going To Be The Source Of That Republican Funding That Shelton Resident Dan Debicella Is Despairingly Seeking?

It looks that some of that funding may have been arranged in Greenwich last Tuesday night.

Billionaire Steve Cohen just hosted a "Fancy Nancy" dinner party at his over-sized mansion in Greenwich to ensure his that his brand new favorite political party - The Republicans - win this November.

SAC Capital's Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Steve Cohen recently made a big shift in donor allegiance from Democrat to Republican.

At a meeting at his house on Tuesday night, Cohen and other large Hedge Fund donors told Republican political party operatives that they did night like financial reform.

Cohen's SAC has switched sides over the financial reform issue in 2010 he gave 93% ($193,000 of $207,000)of his political donations to his new "no financial industry regulation" buddies in the republican party.

Previously, Mr. Cohen was part of the Dodd Squad.and gave 71% to the Democrats in 2008. Most of it went to Senator Chris Dood who was running for President and still is a ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee.

Ultra Secretive New York City Billionaire Bruce Kovner of Caxton Associates, Paul Singer of Elliott Management and Fox News Contributor Daniel Senor of Rosemont Capital all said that they will throw there money behind Republican or any other candidates who will stop regulation of the derivative and hedge fund industry.

MORE INFORMATION ON THIN SKEINED PAUL SINGER:

Hedge Funder's Desperate Attempt To Get A Magazine To Reveal Its Source Is Futile

Hedge Witch Hunt - Fund Presses to Get Magazine to Reveal Source

MORE INFORMATION ON FINANCIAL REFORM:

The Pew Economic Policy Group | Financial Reform Project

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07/13/10 VIDEO: The Connecticut Post Is Asleep At The Switch

The Liberal Pot Heads At Hearst Newspapers Stoned?

Why Wont Tell You About Rob Merkle's Criminal Background?

Bridgeport Roundup Will Have To The Ct Post's Job ......

Connecticut Tea Party Candidate Likes To Get Stoned

Connecticut Post Reporters Ignore The Criminal Background Of

Fourth Congressional Candidate Refer Rob Merkle

32 Year Old Merkle Busted For Smoking Dope

Should Congressional Canidates Be required To Take A drug Test?

Reefer Rob Merkle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjA0hy2kNzs

You Tube Comments About Refer Rob Merkle .....

ctpolitico98
2 days ago
Isn't this the same guy attacking other candidates who are in favor of legalizing Marijuana. Rob Merkle is a hypocrite!

libertybport
3 days ago
Ugh, Rob Merkle is just another liar running for office. What a shame.

andrewmonroe50
3 days ago
Rob Merkle, another Republican hypocrite, just what the party needs. I thought the whole point of the tea party movement was to dump guys like Rob Merkle and Chris Shays who will say whatever they need in order to get elected?

libertyankee
3 days ago
How was this not uncovered yet? Wasn't his father the district attorney who went after Drug lords in Florida? I guess Rob Merkle fell quite far from the tree... Pathetic.

ct4conservative

3 days ago
Rob Merkle needs to drop out of the race, he is a disgrace to the values he pretends to uphold.

07/05/10 LETTER TO THE CT POST EDITOR: Jim Himes,And Dan Dibecella Have The Same Flaws

Himes, Dibecella have same flaws

CT POST

In Friday's Connecticut Post, Dan Debicella blamed Congressman Jim Himes for failing to pass a federal budget. The attack on Himes exposes two critical flaws in the Republican candidacy of Dan Debicella.

The first flaw is that Dan believes that passing any budget, good or bad, is better than passing no budget at all. I disagree; not passing a bad budget is courageous. This is not an attempt to credit Congressman Himes with courage; clearly the fact that Jim Himes votes with Nancy Pelosi 95 percent of the time demonstrates his lack of courage.

The attack is, however, an indictment of Mr. Debicella, whose efforts in the state Legislature have exemplified a lack of leadership needed to block bad budgets.

The second flaw I have noticed with Mr. Debicella's comments is that he exposes himself to be just another flavor of the same thing, a "good government" politician. Dan shows this by arguing against the way Jim Himes and Democrats intend to spend what's left of the "stimulus" money. Dan believes that instead of spending the money as Jim sees fit, we should spend the money as Dan sees fit. This is why Dan and Jim are different flavors of the same thing. Hey Dan, how about we don't spend the people's money and instead we give the money back to the people we took it from? Why is income redistribution in the hands of a Republican better than in the hands of a Democrat?

In the past, the Republican Party has been guilty of growing government. Not to the extreme levels of Democratic administrations, but excessive nonetheless. The Republican Party needs to rediscover its historic mission of constitutionally limited government. Clearly Dan is no constitutionally limited fiscal conservative. If Dan is the Republican nominee, the Fourth Congressional District voters will have no real choice this year.

I believe in small government. I believe in lowering all taxes as a means of stimulating the economy. I believe the United States can recover from this government-sponsored malaise by redirecting solutions away from the government. Real conservative leadership means we put our trust in the American people, not in bureaucracies.

Rick Torres

Bridgeport

The writer is a candidate for the Republican nomination in the 4th Congressional District.

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Bridgeport Resident Rick Torres Endorsed By 9/11 Families for a Secure America

MEDIA ALERT: 9/11 Families for a Secure America endorses Rick Torres

The families and victims of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks and other violent crimes committed by illegal aliens

www.911fsa.org

9/11 Families for a Secure America endorses Rick Torres for the Republican nomination for Congress from Connecticut's 4th District.

9/11 FSA is a membership organization consisting entirely of victims of violent crimes committed by by illegal aliens or 'legal' aliens allowed to enter the USA as a result of official negligence. All our members have either lost a loved one in a murder or are the survivors of such victims. Many of our families lost loved ones on 9/11. Others lost family members in street crimes committed by foreign citizens who, like the 9/11 terrorists, were only able to enter our country because of the federal government's refusal to enforce our laws governing immigration and issuance of visitor visas.

We understand the true human cost of the refusal of Congress to demand enforcement of our immigration laws. Yet our members, many of whom are legal immigrants themselves or the children or grandchildren of immigrants, strongly support properly administered legal immigration.

Rick Torres, himself the son of refugees from the Castro tyranny, is fully committed to the principles our members support. In particular, Rick Torres has confronted the Hamas front group known as the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). He has shown the courage to state the true nature of this front group for Islamic terrorism and has become a target for these un-American infiltrators into our country.

The many members of 9/11 Families for a Secure America who saw their loved ones die on September 11, 2001 know too well that the Islamic terrorist threat is only increased by members of Congress such as Jim Himes, who encourage an enemy which hides behind our tolerant and politically correct society while they plotting to destroy us.

With Rick Torres in Congress the families of the murdered victims of September 11th and of the many who have been killed in street crimes committed by aliens will know that at least one person on Capitol Hill understands the threat we face and that he will do all he can to protect future American lives.

Peter Gadiel

President, 9/11 Families for a Secure America

Contact Information:

Eftychis John Gregos-Mourginakis

Campaign Manager

Rick Torres for Congress 2010

efty@ricktorres2010.com

http://www.ricktorres2010.com/

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07/01/10 Reminder-BBQ at Rick's house tonight at 5:30pm

Reminder-BBQ at Rick's house tonight at 5:30pm Hi Bridgeport, Come meet me and my family today for a fun time at my home. As a reminder, the event details are below. I hope to see you here. And remember- Bring a friend who has not met me yet! Rick Torres Campaign "Fun-Raiser" The Home of Rick and Michele Torres 108 Midland Street Bridgeport, CT Thursday July 1st 5:30pm-8:30pm I hope to see you at our home on tonight for a low-key night of fun, family, good food, and good company. While I am out there campaigning, I do ask that you will make a generous contribution of $25, $50, or even $100 to my efforts to beat Jim Himes this fall. I need your financial support to win this election. P.S. Also please check out my latest OPED in the Connecticut post about the simularities between Dan Debicella and Jim Himes. Sincerely, back to top Rick Torres 2010 Logo is registered trademarks of Rick Torres for Congress. Rick Torres for Congress P.O. Box 3311, Bridgeport, CT 06605. ============================= Please send your comments, news tips and press releases to BridgeportRoundup@gmail.com

06/23/10 Bridgeport Resident Rick Torres Stirs Emotions In Fourth Congressional District Race Against Jim Himes

RICK TORRES STIRS EMOTIONS

BY LENNIEGRIMALDI

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If you like your politics conservative, fiscally and socially, Rick Torres fits both.

Rick is a passionate pol who stirs passionate responses. He has qualified for the ballot to challenge GOP-endorsed State Senator Dan Debicella, a Bridgeport native, in an August primary the winner to face Fourth District Democratic Congressman Jim Himes. Rob Merkle, of Norwalk, founder of an executive search firm in Westport, has also qualified for the August primary. Merkle is a favorite of some Tea Party types, such as it is in Fairfield County. So who’s Rick Torres?

(See a snapshot of his bio below.) Torres lives in Black Rock and operates Harborview Market, a popular neighborhood gathering spot. Rick toiled in Bridgeport Democratic politics for a while as an outsider. He was so outside as an establishment fighter that it was better to become a Republican. In 2003 he almost became mayor, losing the general election to John Fabrizi who had become chief executive following Joe Ganim’s resignation following his conviction on corruption charges.

The early fall of 2003 was dicey for Democrats. The electorate was angry, Fabrizi had served as city council president while Ganim was mayor, Mario Testa was party leader. Fabrizi survived a tough primary against Caruso and others. As the general election closed in Republican and Democratic polls showed the race was even. That’s not good for Dems who enjoy a major registration advantage. Testa decided it would be good to resign to take heat off Fabrizi. The editorial board of the Connecticut Post did not believe Rick had the right temperament to be mayor. A statement Rick made about the minority community lifting themselves up was interpreted as insensitive. Fabrizi won the election.

Rick did not go away, nor did his controversial swagger. In the summer of 2007 Rick, as the local GOP chair, endorsed Democratic State Rep. Chris Caruso, the mayoral primary challenger to party-endorsed Bill Finch, arguing the best way to cleanse the city’s Democratic political system was to get behind the guy who’d powerwash it into the Pequonnock River. Local Republicans threw a fit over Rick endorsing a Dem and removed Torres as party leader.

When challengers emerged this year to take on Himes, former State Senator Rob Russo had the majority of the Bridgeport GOP support. Undeterred, Torres jumped in as well claiming the throne of conservatism. Russo’s campaign never took flight, Debicella’s fundraising efforts and district-wide campaigning propelled him to the party endorsement. Taking out Debicella is a tall task. He has money and organizational support. But he must safeguard his money for the general election. Torres has a history of whistling to his own tune. He won’t go away quietly. He has been endorsed by economic guru Peter Schiff who’s trying to slay GOP-endorsed Linda McMahon for the right to challenge Dick Blumenthal in November. www.ricktorres2010.com

From Rick Torres:

Rick Torres, who is running for the Republican nomination in Connecticut’s 4th District, the seat currently held by Jim Himes, has issued the following statement on the Secretary of State’s announcement regarding ballot qualifiers today. Torres is excited to have his ideas aired alongside those of fellow Republicans Robert Merkle and Dan Dibecella.

“This is going to be an exciting race and, I believe, a definitive race for the nation. The voters of Connecticut’s Fourth have clear choices between a candidate who has as his base, the Republican establishment and a candidate who has the support of some of the louder voices in the Tea Party movement. In me they have a third choice: a candidate who derives his support from regular folks across the District who just simply want to be left alone to raise their families and run their businesses.

“I have struggled and fought from the time that my family fled Cuba and have risen from the oppression of the public housing system to have my name on a ballot for United States Congress. It is really quite an honor and I am happy that the voters had the faith in me to sign my nomination papers.

“It is an interesting year to be in a race. So many want to hold on to their power and others are just swinging wildly because they are angry. We need a reasoned dialogue with the people because it is their lives and their freedoms that are at stake here. Insiders must put aside their allegiances and some in the debate must tone down their anger. We need to come up with real solutions to restore our nation to her place as a shining light for democracy around the globe.”

Torres, who was born in Bridgeport, moved back to his family’s native Cuba when he was a young boy. It took his father five years after Fidel Castro came to power to secure permission to return to America’s shores. In 1967, Rick and his brother were brought back to Bridgeport—with not much more than the clothes on their backs. The family lived across from the PT Barnum Public Housing Project and Torres worked his way through college in a series of construction trades jobs. He eventually studied for a PhD in microbiology but, like many folks, had to quit graduate school in order to support his young family.

Torres and Michelle, his wife of 27 years, started a series of small businesses, working double shifts for years. Eventually, they bought Harborview Market: a once thriving neighborhood store which had fallen on desperate times. Harborview is once again a successful business and was the site of today’s press conference.

In 2003, Rick ran for Mayor of Bridgeport on the Republican Ticket. Prior to his Mayoral run, Rick took an active role in a number of neighborhood and community organizations, and ran for several local government offices. Rick and Michele have five children: John, Alex, Michael, Kaitlyn, and Gabbi. They live in Bridgeport.

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06/21/10 06/22/10 Republican Conservative Rick Torres' Challenge Against Fourth District Congressman Jim Himes

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