Two Bite the Dust

And the games go on....

Just when I thought that this might just be a straightforward election, news came in that two challenging candidates in the Fifth District have dropped out from the upcoming DTC primary.

Now, at first glance, this isn't that unusual: candidates drop out for all sorts of (good or bad) reasons all the time. But, in this case...

You see, it's been said that Ms. Martha Bell - the "Paula Deen" of the Dirty Tricks cookbook - applied pressure to the families of the candidates. Martha, of course, is running on the endorsed slate...and by doing so, induced them to quit.

Now, on the one hand, if these candidates were so susceptible to such pressure, maybe they weren't the best choices. Certainly, a better vetting job could have been done...and maybe a little preparation beforehand would have prevented this issue from coming to a boil.

However, I've heard that Mme. Bell's spiel was that these candidates were "running with Rich Borer"; and that the aforementioned Mr. Borer was the reason why West Haven's taxes were going to rise. (Never mind that Borer's been out of office since 2005; and fuggedabout the, ahem, "minor" tax increase by the current administration supposedly to address these financial issues).

It just seems to me that going after the family of a candidate is way out of bounds. If it is true - and I believe it is - then this is just another job out of the Democrat's Dirty Tricks Department...and the voters should take notice.