Democrats Duane Perkins and Terry Tierney make their case to the delegates at the 24th State Senate convention 24th State Senate convention. Photo by CTBlogger, May 19 2008.
Since the server went down half way through the convention, here's my brief report on what happened.
In what should be considered one of the more interesting state senate conventions, although Terry Tierney was just one vote short from forcing a primary, Duane Perkins won the nomination and now faces Republican nominee (and Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton's chief of staff) Mike McLaughlin for the senate seat. Also throwing his hat into the race was publisher of the Immigrant Newspaper, and owner of owner of One Stop Variety, Manuel Bataguas who picked up one vote.
Both Perkins and Tierney picked great individuals to present their political resume to the delegates with Perkins being nominated by former Congressman James Maloney and Tierney being nominated by former mayoral candidate Helena Abrantes. And what was a surprising move, after the nominations, a member of the delegation proposed that each of the candidates give a five minute presentation and sell themselves to the delegates before the vote.
Asked about his next move, and whether he would try and collect the necessary signatures to trigger a primary, Tierney said he would consider it but what's most important is party unity and taking back the senate seat from the Republicans.
From last night, here's footage of the convention (including a brief interview I did with Perkins after the convention was concluded).
NOTE:On their website, The News-Times has the following picture of Duane Perkins. Now, I don't have to explain the silliness of this screw-up...right?
UPDATE: Attaboy! The News-Times updated the site and corrected the error.
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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.
NOTE: On their website, The News-Times has the following picture of Duane Perkins. Now, I don't have to explain the silliness of this screw-up...right?
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.
