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Jun 25, 2024 | 
ctinsider.com | Christopher Shays
I yearn for a presidential candidate who inspires me, speaks to our country’s better angels, and asks something of all of us. With more than 340 million Americans, how is it we have only Donald Trump and Joe Biden to chose as our next president? One is old and inherently dishonest, and perceived by many as dangerous and corrupt, and the other is even older, and regretfully, while inherently decent, more often than his opponent to show concerning signs of his age.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
ctpost.com | Christopher Shays
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump salutes at a campaign rally March 16, 2024, in Vandalia, Ohio. Jeff Dean/Associated PressIn last year’s Veterans Day speech, weighed down by feelings of grievance and vengeance, Donald Trump called those on the other side of the aisle, “vermin,” suggesting they pose a greater threat to the United States than the leaders of the totalitarian regimes of Russia and China.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
ctpost.com | Christopher Shays
President Joe Biden speaks to members of the media as he leaves the White House to spend the Christmas holiday with his family at Camp David presidential retreat, near Thurmont, Md., Saturday, Dec. 23, 2023.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
thehour.com | Christopher Shays
With the beginning of the New Year, and the election for the president in November, the finest and most patriotic contribution President Joe Biden could make would be to focus his remaining year in office by being the best president he can be, and allow another Democrat to seek the office he now holds. It is not that Joe is too old, there are a number of individuals his age who are fit to be president.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
milfordmirror.com | Christopher Shays
With the beginning of the New Year, and the election for the president in November, the finest and most patriotic contribution President Joe Biden could make would be to focus his remaining year in office by being the best president he can be, and allow another Democrat to seek the office he now holds. It is not that Joe is too old, there are a number of individuals his age who are fit to be president.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
middletownpress.com | Christopher Shays
With the beginning of the New Year, and the election for the president in November, the finest and most patriotic contribution President Joe Biden could make would be to focus his remaining year in office by being the best president he can be, and allow another Democrat to seek the office he now holds. It is not that Joe is too old, there are a number of individuals his age who are fit to be president.
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Nov 5, 2023 | 
ctexaminer.com | Sue Halpern |Peter Friel |Alexander Karpinski |Christopher Shays |Gregory Stroud
To the Editor:I was a member of the 19th Charter Revision Commission in Stamford and proud of it!My family goes back generations in Stamford. My grandparents met at Yale and Towne and made a life here. A few relatives served the city in various positions over the years. I worked as a nurse for the City of Stamford for 38 years at the Smith House Skilled Nursing facility and became familiar with the city’s union process.
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Nov 5, 2023 | 
ctexaminer.com | Nick Menapace |Alexander Karpinski |Christopher Shays |Tom Corsillo |Gregory Stroud
To the Editor:The resignation of Terry Granatek from the East Lyme Zoning Commission and the efforts to fill the remainder of his two year term raise significant concerns for me about the integrity of our democratic processes in East Lyme. The disregard for our town charter, which specifies that appointees to elective offices should serve until the next regular town election or a special election, is troubling.
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Nov 5, 2023 | 
ctexaminer.com | David Rubino |Christopher Shays |Tom Corsillo |Jeff Randolph |Gregory Stroud
To the Editor:Friday morning I was at the Democratic Town Committee headquarters, when a prominent Old Lyme Republican pulled into the parking lot with a stack of Democratic lawn signs. She dumped them at the corner of our building and tried to scurry off unnoticed. Given all the recent issues with sign vandalism and theft, I went outside to confront her. I asked her how she came to have our signs. Her response was, for lack of a better word, incredible.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
ctpost.com | Christopher Shays
U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivers his inaugural address after taking the oath of office at Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.,on Jan. 20, 1961. AP Back in 2017, the British Economist declared the United States a flawed democracy. I found this shocking. But when I thought it through, I began to notice more and more of my Congressional colleagues putting party before country. Which got me wondering, are we losing our way? In his inaugural address to the nation, President John F.
