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Bonfanti calls for change over experience

[Letter to the Redding Pilot--July 4, 2008]

The race for the Connecticut 4th Congressional district offers an opportunity to vote for change over experience. As countless letters to the Redding Pilot repeat, Chris Shays has lots of experience. What has his experience produced for us?

  1. An economy that is in shambles
  2. A hapless energy policy resulting in $4.60 gasoline and $4.80 home heating oil and climbing
  3. An endless war that has killed more than 4,000, grievously wounded four times that number and which will cost us more than a trillion dollars (that’s with a t)
  4.  A transportation system that is scandalous for its inadequacy
  5. A broken Health Care system
  6. A policy of diverting money to Iraq rather than helping his hometown of Bridgeport  achieve its potential. In spite of Shays 21 years representing Bridgeport it is one of the poorest cities in the Nation..

With that record how can any one think of sending Shays back to Congress?  Letters will respond that he is not responsible for the above mess. If not him who? We the voters must hold Shays accountable for the failures of this administration which he has supported and enabled for the last eight years.

Jim Himes is a successful, smart, family man who has turned away from a financially lucrative career in his hope to serve the people of the 4th congressional district. His web site has details on his educational and professional qualifications to serve Connecticut as an effective member of Congress. Fortunately he is not just another entrenched professional politician of the Chris Shays model.

Come and meet Jim Himes on July 27th prior to the Concert on the Green in Redding.

Sincerely,

Peter A. Bonfanti, Umpawaug Road