Simmons is Back?!
According to The Day Rob Simmons is running TV ads saying he is “still on the ballot” and will spend as much as $350,000 on the campaign.
Rob Simmons ad hints he may be reviving Senate campaign
By Ted Mann
Publication: TheDay.com
Rob Simmons’ U.S. Senate candidacy might not be so over after all.
The former Republican congressman announced Wednesday that he will begin running a television ad “in the nature of a public service announcement” that urges primary voters to consider small business, national security and trust when choosing among Simmons, Peter Schiff and Linda McMahon in the Aug. 10 primary. Simmons announced he would cease campaigning but remain on the ballot earlier this year, after McMahon defeated him for the party’s endorsement at the Republican convention.
Since then, Simmons has publicly toyed with the notion of resuming his candidacy, but the TV ad would be the boldest move yet toward reviving a campaign. A spokesman for Simmons, however, said that Simmons has not hired new staff and doesn’t planned to resume “proactive campaigning,” but will attend events when he is invited.
Simmons is due to appear on WNPR radio’s Where We Live on Aug. 3, as part of its “Where We Vote” series.
The Simmons ad, which is still being edited, will run on cable and broadcast TV statewide, beginning later this week. A spokesman for Cashman and Katz, the public relations agency that produced the ad and is handling Simmons’ media buy, said the campaign would spend about $350,000 on the spot.
In a statement, a spokesman for McMahon scoffed at Simmons’ wavering on whether or not he would resume his campaign.
“For eight months, Rob Simmons promised Connecticut Republicans that he would not primary if he lost the convention,” said the spokesman, Ed Patru. “He lost the convention, then immediately announced he would primary. Hours later, he dismissed his staff and announced he wouldn’t primary. Over the past two months, he’s been engaged in a very strange and erratic effort to reconcile his promise not to run with his desire to return to Washington. Today, we are as confused as everyone else.”
The McMahon campaign will be prepared if Simmons launches a full-scale campaign, Patru said, adding, “until that happens, following Rob Simmons’ on-again, off-again campaign is a little like trying to keep up with an Abbott and Costello routine…Who’s on first?”
FINALLY !!!!!!
1i will vote for simmons in primary and hopefully in nov. i can not vote for mcmahon. still wont vote for chesty puller, but my moral compass will not let me vote for mcmahon.
2He’s back!
I thought he gave up so I put a Linda sticker on my car. I was still going to vote for him but I thought he put us all in a strange spot what with suspending.
Now that it is un-suspended the Linda sticker is peeled off and I will put Simmons for senate one just as soon as I can get my hands on one.
If you got one, pop it in the mail for me?
John McCommas
29 Kathleen Drive U-7a
willimantic CT 06226
email is johnray67@hotmail.com
3oh and YAHHHHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4Well there is 2 uneducated Republicans voting for The BIG Spending Simmons. Glad you are happy he is back… he will fit right in with the rest of the BIG spenders on Capital Hill.
5Uneducated….. huh. Coming from you, that’s an interesting bit of analysis.
We each have a vote, it’s up to each of us to cast that vote for the person we feel would do the best job.
Sorry you don’t seem to agree with that premise Scott, but I’d have it no other way.
By the way, make that 3 votes for Simmons!
6All Simmons did was fracture the vote even more. This should be Schiff vs. McMahon. He chose to quit… yes quit.. suspending your campaign is the same as quitting. If you haven’t realized that Schiff is the answer then well you are just an idiot.
Awww poor little Ray is mad because Schiff hasn’t come to Canterbury so he won’t vote for him. Have you read much of his writings and thoughts Ray??? The man is an economics genius head and shoulders above everyone else but you won’t vote for him because he didn’t come and visit you.
That in a nutshell right there is what is wrong with American politics!!!! First if you don’t have military experience and 2nd if you don’t go visit every area you don’t get the vote. Well I don’t remember McCain coming to Canterbury… or Palin. Oh wait you voted for them.
You are a tool…. wake u and vote for a guy who KNOWS the economy. Simmons is a dope… and a VERY BIG SPENDER… I know I know… he is reformed right Ray???? Now that leaves me LMFAO!
7Scott,
Your immaturity shows in every post you choose to call people names and ridicule decisions that are obviously above your intellectual capability to comprehend.
8Its embarrassing living in CT. We have a candidate who has succeeded in business, and has been warning of this economic collapse. This guys father is in jail as a TAX PROTESTOR, because the federal income tax is illegal. WHAT IS MORE AMERICAN THAN FIGHTING IMMORAL TAXES?
And yet people up here are thinking that a woman who is spending $50 million of her own money to get elected to the senate, is going to care about anything other than trying to make the McMahon name a superpower in America.
Now Simmons announces he’s back. He was already in office, obviously didnt do a good enough job, and now wants back in. He still thinks we are going to win the ‘war on terrorism’, so he’ll keep wasting our money.
Whats even worse is that Connecticut will probably go with Richard Blumenthal (if linda or rob simmons is elected), god save us.
Wake UP PEOPLE!!! I dont agree with everything Peter Schiff beleives in (mainly only on Afghanistan), but he is by faaaaaaaaaaaar a better candidate than either linda or rob simmons.
PETER SCHIFF FOR SENATE …please, for the hopeful future a free republic
9Ray,
When you don’t have the answers that is always your response. Maybe it is your immaturity showing.
So tell me… who knows more about the economy Simmons, or Schiff? That is what Congress is all about… the economy and its policies.
10Scott,
US Government by Scott……
All this time I thought Article 1 Section 8 enumerated the powers of Congress. While some of the powers have to do with commerce, certainly not ALL nor even most for that matter give the Congress power as you state.
How about these Scott, do they look familiar?
Section 8 – Powers of Congress
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
Section 9 – Limits on Congress
The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.
No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
(No capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.) (Section in parentheses clarified by the 16th Amendment.)
No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.
No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another.
No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State.
Constitutional amendments The Thirteenth (1865), Fourteenth (1868), and Fifteenth Amendments (1870) gave Congress authority to enact legislation to enforce rights of African Americans, including voting rights, due process, and equal protection under the law.
Or is your “all about the economy and its policies” taken from your interpretation of the “living” constitution you liberals love to talk about?
11Ray,
So in other words you have no answer to my question on who know more about the economy… simmons or Schiff??? Pretty simple question Ray
12How much power do you think Schiff will have going in
13as a freshman senator? His background will only be of benefit if he gets a cherry appointment in one of the finance committees. Then he must work with the rest of the committee. Peter is best suited for an executive position. It is an easy trap to think someone’s message will make them a good candidate but examining one skill sets is more important to defining a qualified candidate.
Simmon’s has no skill set except to spend money… he proved that during his last stint in Congress. Do you really think he has changed??? If you do I have some real nice property along the gulf coast to sell you… pay no attention to the oil slime… it really is a nice piece.
14My answer (reading is fundamental) was contained in my previous post. The job isn’t ALL about economics and I told you so isn’t a political platform. But if you must….. from Wikipedia:
Despite predictions regarding the housing bubble and automotive industry difficulties coming to fruition, as early as 2009 Schiff was receiving criticism due to the performance of some of his client’s accounts in 2008, as well as controversies over the predictions themselves. In January 2009, economic blogger and investment adviser Michael Shedlock reported, “I have talked with many who claim they have invested with Schiff and are down anywhere from 40% to 70% in 2008.”[51] Other criticisms followed, including the aforementioned Eric Tyson post[38] as well as an article for the investment news site Seeking Alpha, published on the site two days after Shedlock’s blog post.[52] Later that week an article appeared in the Wall Street Journal reporting that Schiff’s broker-dealer firm, Euro Pacific Capital Inc., “advised its clients to bet that the dollar would weaken significantly and that foreign stocks would outpace their U.S. peers” and that instead, the dollar advanced against most currencies, “magnifying the losses from foreign stocks Mr. Schiff steered his investors into.”[53]
Don’t know if I’d be investing with him based on that glowing blog.
15Scott,
A skills SET implies a number of skills or at least a set. I think Schiff is a one trick pony and the trick just isn’t that good.
As witnessed by this CT Mirror report:
July 26, 2010
Schiff’s struggling campaign looks to one last online ‘money bomb’
By Mark Pazniokas
Just five weeks after petitioning his way onto the Republican U.S. Senate primary ballot, Peter Schiff says he is unlikely to continue propping up his struggling campaign with his own money.
His last gasp as a U.S. Senate candidate likely will come this week with an online plea for money to air commercials.
“If I can’t raise the money, I have to decide if I want to pay for it myself,” Schiff said. “At this point, my answer would be no. I’m already into this thing for $700,000. I gotta get more support from people.”
Rob however has a true resume:
Rob’s public service career began when he enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1965 as a Private, and spent 19 months in Vietnam where he earned two Bronze Star Medals. Rob continued his military service in the U.S. Army Reserve as a Military Intelligence Officer, retiring as a Colonel in 2003 with over 37 years of active and reserve service.
He is past commander of the 434th Military Intelligence (MI) Detachment New Haven, CT, which won the Reserve Officers Association’s Outstanding Small Unit Award in 1996. In 1998, Rob was recognized by for his contributions to the Military Intelligence Corps with the Knowlton Award for “Integrity, Moral Character, Professional Competence and Selflessness.”
Following his active duty service in the Army, Rob joined the Central Intelligence Agency, working as an Operations Officer for a decade, including five years on assignment overseas in East Asia where he participated in difficult and dangerous missions to protect America’s national security.
Upon his return from East Asia, Rob left the CIA to join the staff of Senator John H. Chafee (R-Rhode Island) where he was Legislative Assistant for Military, Foreign and Veterans Affairs.
In 1981, he was assigned as a staff member to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and soon thereafter was appointed by Chairman Barry Goldwater (R-Arizona) to serve as Staff Director of the full committee. Rob worked with the committee and the Reagan Administration on some of the most important national security challenges of the Cold War. CIA Director Casey presented him with the Agency Seal Medallion – its highest civilian award – in 1985.
That year, Rob returned to his hometown of Stonington, Connecticut where he chaired the Police Commission, and taught courses on government at both Yale College and the University of Connecticut.
In 1991, Rob was elected by the people of Stonington and North Stonington, and the villages of Mystic, Old Mystic and Pawcatuck to represent them in the Connecticut General Assembly. In his first term, Rob opposed the imposition of a state income tax, fought for fiscal responsibility and took a lead role on transportation issues. Rob developed a reputation as a strong advocate for his constituents. As a result, he won reelection four times.
Troubled that entrenched 10-term 2nd District incumbent Congressman Sam Gejdenson had lost touch with his constituents, Rob challenged him in 2000 in a campaign many said a Republican could not win. In that race, Rob came back from a double-digit deficit to defeat Gejdenson in a district where Democrats outnumbered Republicans by 34,000 voters. He was the first Republican in 50 years to win three terms in the district.
In Congress, Rob served on the Armed Services, Transportation, Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security Committees. Rep. Simmons also served as the Chairman of the Homeland Security Intelligence and Veterans’ Health Subcommittees.
Rob continued to fight for fiscal responsibility and low taxes, voting for the 2001 and 2003 federal income tax cuts, increasing the child tax credit, and eliminating the marriage penalty and death tax. Rob also authored the “Simplify Tax Filing For Seniors Act,” requiring the IRS to offer a simplified tax form for seniors, and supported legislation to repeal the 1993 tax on Social Security benefits.
While in Congress, Rob fought to make sure his fellow veterans received the benefits they were promised. He helped pass the historic “concurrent receipt” legislation that allows military retirees to collect their military retirement and the disability benefits to which they are entitled, and secured critical funding for new construction at the Veterans Home in Rocky Hill, Connecticut.
Rob’s landmark accomplishment was working with Team Connecticut to save the Groton Submarine Base when it was targeted for complete closure by the Defense Base Realignment and Closure Commission. Rob led the fight to keep the base operating, saving 31,000 Connecticut jobs and a critical national security asset in the “Submarine Capital of the World.”
After three terms in Congress, Rob was appointed by Governor M. Jodi Rell as Connecticut’s first Business Advocate. During his two year term, Rob visited over 400 local small businesses to listen to employers and workers, and help them address the challenges facing small businesses in Connecticut.
Rob Simmons is a 1965 graduate of Haverford College, PA, where he won six varsity letters and was captain of the cross-country and track teams. He earned a Master in Public Administration degree from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in 1979, where he was a Littauer Fellow.
Rob and his wife, Heidi, have been married for 35 years. She is a public school teacher at the Regional Multicultural Magnet School in New London, CT, specializing in early childhood education and literacy.
Rob and Heidi are blessed with a daughter, Jane, who is a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford and lives in New York City; and a son, Robert, who is a graduate of Providence College and lives in Boston.
Rob and Heidi live with their three dogs — Bailey, Lucy and Grigio — in Stonington, CT.
16That was a nice little bio on Rob. Its too bad that all of the things he has done in his political career her has been a faiure at. How much more money do yuo want him to spend???? I thought you were looking for cutting not spending?? Yet you back Rob.
Rob cut taxes which is great but FAILED at cutting expenses…. it doesn’t quite work economincally Ray
Easily $200 billion can be cut right out of the budget….. Start right at the military, education, welfare and medicare. $50 billion each. There is more waste then that in each branch… but a nice cut to start will help. Rob won’t cut… he will vote for more military spending we don’t need.
17lol i cant believe this guy is defending Simmons over Schiff….did you actually see the debate?
18lol……..I can’t believe you actually made this statement:
“Whats even worse is that Connecticut will probably go with Richard Blumenthal (if linda or rob simmons is elected), god save us.”
The primary that you must be speaking of is not an election. It determines who runs on the Republican line on the ballot. My estimate is that Schiff won’t get more than 10% of the vote. With Schiff’s skills, he should make that worth about 2%.
19Your point is so important..not. You know what I meant, and cant defend your boy Simmons, so you resort to childish nitpicking. So you dont vote for someone because you think they cant win? Thats the kind of thinking that got us here in the first place, and the kind of thinking that is leading us towards this financial collapse. But you dont care about that, you just want to tell all your friends you voted for the winner.
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