Election Day is just one week away! I see this year’s election as being a crucial one for the future of our Country. George Bush and the Republican Majority in congress have led our country far away from our American Ideas. Our continued involvement in Iraq is only making conditions more and more grim for the people of Iraq and for the United States as well. October has set a record for the most US military personnel to die in one month since the start of this futile war; we have passed the one hundred service people dead. Estimates vary from ten to one hundred times as many non-Americans who die from the insurgency as well as in clashes with our forces. There is no functioning government in most of the country, and our presence is only fanning the fires of insurgency and instability.

These last six years have seen a great assault on human rights in this country; the president has led us into invading the privacy of our own citizens, overturning constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure, limiting access to habeas corpus for non citizen detainees, and overturning of the Geneva Conventions against torture of those who we hold as prisoner. The founders of this country would shudder to see what has happened to the Bill Of Rights in the past six years, particularly since September 2001. None of this has made us any more safe from terrorists; our policies have only bred more terrorism in the world, and created more enemies for the United States.

It is time to throw out all of the scoundrels in Washington! I know we run the risk of electing new scoundrels who also become captive to the same special interests as the old ones, but in the short run at least a vote for Democrats is a vote for change. Here in Connecticut Joe Lieberman has got to go. He is not the same Democrat that Connecticut first elected in 1988. He could not carry the Democratic primary, but is still running as an independent candidate and polling indicates that too many Republicans and independent voters are planning to elect him. Ned Lamont may not be the best that this state has to offer, but he is far and above the others on the ballot. A vote for Lamont is a clear vote for change in our Iraq policy; it is a clear vote for restoring civil rights, and probably a reasonable vote for those concerned about a better health care system.

There is no explaining why incumbent Governor Jodie Rell is holding onto her lead in the governor’s race. I haven’t understood how the citizens of this state can elect an overwhelmingly Democratic legislature and then consistently elect Republican governors. Rell was part of the Rowland administration, she either is incredibly stupid not to have know what was going on, or willingly turned a blind eye to the corruption in Rowland’s government. The fiasco of hiring a contractor who got paid millions and millions of dollars to do defective work on I-84, and then hiring inspectors who couldn’t see the defectiveness while they collected their millions of dollars in contract money from the state proves she should be turned out of office at once. Mayor John DeStefano would be a breath or fresh air in the governor’s office, and would bring new and creative ideas and a commitment to bettering the lives of the working class and the impoverished and oppressed.

VOTE THE REPUBLICANS OUT! I am Terry Davis and I wrote and approved this message; no one else has approved, endorsed or paid for it!