Senate candidate to produce monthly TV show…

Independent/Third Party candidate for Senate from Connecticut Dr. John Mertens will produce monthly television shows to be, “shown on public access television stations around the state”.

The Mertens campaign website describes the shows as, “30 minutes of in-depth discussion of a different issue each month between the candidate and guests.”

The first show which will be first telecast on November 6th will focus on U.S. Drug Policy. The guess reportedly include, “Cliff Thornton, Green Party Candidate for Governor in 2006… Joseph Brooks, retired Connecticut police captain…”

SOURCE:

http://mertens2010.blogspot.com/2009/11/dr-john-mertens-produces-first-monthly.html

Scozzafava feelings hurt, offered to join Third Party…

Republican Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava who dropped put of the New York 23rd Congressional District and then endorsed the Democrat apparently has had her feelings hurt and has been offered a spot in a Third Party.

Jude Seymour writes on WatertownDailyTimes.com that Assemblywoman Scozzafava’s feelings were hurt by Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman. Seymour quotes Assemblywoman Scozzafava saying, “There was no sense of compassion in this man at all… I know a lot of people that were hurt by the tone of the campaign that Mr. Hoffman ran.” Assemblywoamn Scozzafava said Hoffman never asked for he endorsement after she quit the race.

Seymour also writes that New York Independence Party Chairman Frank MacKay will invite Assemblywoman Scozzafava to, “carry his party as her main affiliation”. The Assemblywoman said she has no plans to change parties – but we have also seen her change her mind pretty quickly in the past.

SOURCE:

http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20091105/NEWS03/311059964