In November 2006, people across the country send Washington a clear message about the war in Iraq and tossed the Republicans out of the majority and no where was this more evident then in Connecticut's 5th District.
One of the biggest landslides in Connecticut happened in the 5th District with Democratic challenger Chris Murphy handed incumbent Congresswoman, local Republican favorite, Nancy Johnson her pink slip. If that was not enough, Danbury residents sent a loud message with Murphy beating the Johnson on every local machine in the Danbury.
Hearing the message of his constituents when it comes to a change in course, yesterday Congressman Murphy voted in favor of HR 2956, Responsible Redeployment from Iraq Act, which would require that the Bush administration start bringing troops home from Iraq in 120 days.
From the floor of the House of Representatives, here is Murphy's remarks on the bill. Here's the text of his speech.
I thank the gentleman for yielding. My friends, for all that we disagree on here today, we agree on one thing – we all want a stable, independent Iraq.
What I can’t understand is how anyone can still believe that our continued, open ended military involvement there will lead to a stable nation. In fact, it is doing the opposite.
The Iraqi Parliament and ministries are in unprecedented disarray.
The President’s own report to Congress says they haven’t met any of the political benchmarks. And an estimated 13,000 Iraqis are dead since the escalation began in January.
The fact is, as someone wiser than me said, the Iraqis are paying wholesale, rather than retail, for their political decisions today. So long as we are the military bodyguard for every major Iraqi political group, so long as we are subsidizing the political decisions of Iraqi political leaders, they will never make the difficult political concessions necessary to create a stable society.
Not another American soldier should die for a strategy that is, unfathomably, making Iraq less, not more stable.
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On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
The amended complaint states that plaintiffs sought to remedy the continued discriminatory and unauthorized enforcement of federal immigration laws against the Latino residents of the City of Danbury by Danbury's mayor and its police department.
Plaintiffs allege that the arrests violated their Fourth Amendment rights and the Connecticut Constitution because defendants conducted the arrests without valid warrants, in the absence of exigent circumstances, and without probable cause to believe that plaintiffs were engaged in unlawful activity. In addition, plaintiffs allege that defendants improperly stopped, detained, investigated, searched and arrested plaintiffs. Plaintiffs also allege that defendants violated their Fourteenth Amendment rights when they intentionally targeted plaintiffs, and arrested and detained them on the basis of their race, ethnicity and perceived national origin. Plaintiffs raise First Amendment, Due Process and tort claims.
Plaintiffs request declaratory relief, damages and attorneys fees.
In November 2006, people across the country send Washington a clear message about the war in Iraq and tossed the Republicans out of the majority and no where was this more evident then in Connecticut's 5th District. 
On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
