The Hilltop Brigade - working in CT to take back the Hill

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

I've seen them in action - they recruited me last year to work on a local campaign. This year they will be putting their strategy to work to defeat Shays.



http://www.hilltopbrigade.org/




Speakers at DeLauro’s house praised the leaders of the Hilltop Brigade, Farber and Bellamy. “The brigade made the difference,” DeLauro declared. “We have a new majority that you helped to create. Let me say this to you: We have a 15-vote margin in the House of Representatives. We have a one-vote margin in the U.S.Senate.”

To the standing-room-only crowd that gathered and promised to hit the streets over the next seven months, she said: “You can be of tremendous help to us. We can expand the majority in the house by 40 seats. We can take 40 Republicans. I have that on good order. We could take 40 Republican seats,” she repeated to cheers.

“If that happens, then we will then defeat the lone Republican in New England. We will dispatch Christopher Shays and welcome him home,” she said.

Removing Shays from office won’t be easy. He has served for 20 years, is a member of key Congressional committees, he has pressed hard for good government initiatives, and he knows how to deliver funds back to the Fourth Congressional district, which includes Bridgeport and Westport. He has had two consecutive tough challenges from Democrats, and emerged victorious each time, despite popular discontent over his support for the Iraq war.