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Boehner becomes bogeyman in Connecticut House race
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Oct 19, 2012 11:04am |
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| News Date | Friday, October 19, 2012 12:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | TORRINGTON, Conn. — In a closely-contested House race here, Democrat Elizabeth Esty is summoning the name of an unusual Republican bogeyman to draw voters away from her opponent: Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).
Esty is struggling to fend off Republican state Sen. Andrew Roraback in a battle for an open Democratic seat in western Connecticut. A longtime legislator with a history of working across party lines, Roraback has made inroads by pitching himself as a moderate who won’t bow to pressure from conservative party leaders.
In response, Esty drops Boehner’s name as much as she does Mitt Romney’s or Paul Ryan’s.
She argues that as centrist as Roraback may be, the only vote he’ll take that matters for the district is the one in January that could re-elect Boehner as the House speaker. That first vote, she said during the candidates’ first debate in Torrington, would empower a conservative agenda whose policies on the budget, the environmental, women’s rights and other issues are at odds with the views of people in Connecticut’s fifth district. |
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