{"id":572087,"date":"2010-05-20T14:04:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T18:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.78348"},"modified":"2010-05-20T14:11:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T18:11:29","slug":"delegate-math-doesnt-add-up-for-mark-greenberg-plans-to-petition-for-a-primary-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/572087","title":{"rendered":"Delegate math doesn’t add up for Mark Greenberg; plans to petition for a primary instead"},"content":{"rendered":"

The wealthy Litchfield County businessman and Republican candidate for Congress from the 5th District has decided not to seek the party’s support at tomorrow’s nominating convention.<\/p>\n

Instead, he’ll continue his efforts to petition for an August primary.<\/p>\n

“I have said from the beginning that I would take my message directly to the 92,000 people of the 5th District,” Greenberg said in an email. “The decision to represent  ‘We the People’ in Congress is too important to leave in the hands of 330 delegates to a Convention. We should let 92,000 voters make that decision, not 330 political insiders.”<\/p>\n

Greenberg, who is fighting Republicans Justin Bernier, Sam Caligiuri and Bill Evans for the right to take on incumbent Chris Murphy in November, is staking a position as a political outsider. <\/p>\n

“My Republican opponents are individuals who have made government their careers – one as a career elected politician and the other as a government bureaucratic staffer.  Whichever candidate emerges victorious from the Convention, will be a career politician,” Greenberg said. “I am not a career politician.  My career has been in the business world – not the political world – and that gives me the “real world” perspective that my opponents lack.    I pledge that I will put the people’s interests first and bring real change – and basic, common-sense business practices to Washington.”<\/p>\n



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The wealthy Litchfield County businessman and Republican candidate for Congress from the 5th District has decided not to seek the party’s support at tomorrow’s nominating convention. Instead, he’ll continue his efforts to petition for an August primary. “I have said from the beginning that I would take my message directly to the 92,000 people of the 5th District,” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}