Connecticut repuke to factory workers: It's your fault this factory is closing

[KamaAina]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/31/1317833/-Connecticut-gubernatorial-candidate-to-factory-workers-It-s-your-fault-this-factory-is-closing

The CT Mirror sets the stage:

Near the gate of a doomed paper mill, Republican Tom Foley alighted from the back seat of a blue BMW sedan Tuesday to assail the economic policies of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, only to find himself in a raucous street debate with the local first selectwoman and soon-to-be jobless workers.

Foley, a candidate for governor, came to fault Malloy for the recently announced plans by a global investment firm to close Fusion Paperboard, costing 140 jobs in this struggling mill town. By the time he left, Foley had defended the decision of the absentee owners and told the selectwoman and workers they shared blame for the mill’s demise.

“You want to blame people who are hundreds or thousands of miles away, malign management,” Foley told the workers and First Selectwoman Cathy Osten, a Democratic state senator and Malloy supporter. “Listen, you have failed, because you have lost these jobs.”

Derp.

[Faux pas]

1. Kickin'

[sharp_stick]

2. My wife asked me

what I was laughing at this morning while reading this story in the Courant.

http://www.courant.com/news/politics/elections/hc-ctm-foley-press-conference-awry-20140730,0,7866412.story

My favorite line in the whole thing:

Mark Bergman, the spokesman for the Malloy campaign, had come to defend the governor. But when the news conference finally ended, Bergman just smiled, shook his head and told reporters he had nothing to add.

[gratuitous]

3. Holy crap

"You want to blame people who are hundreds or thousands of miles away" said Foley. I wonder if that applies to his campaign rhetoric? Does he ever blame folks far away in Washington DC for local problems?

I'm guessing I know the answer already, and this walking bag of hypocrite doesn't have the slightest qualm about his clownery.

[jwirr]

4. Surprised he made it out alive!

[bigwillq]

5. Foley is awful

So is Malloy.

I won't be voting for either one in November.

[KamaAina]

7. Is there a third-party candidate? A Green, say?

If not, a vote for neither one is a vote for Foley.

[bigwillq]

8. I don't believe in that theory

I vote for the person that I feel is the best candidate.

There are other progressives in the race.

[PowerToThePeople]

6. He just secured himself a spot

in the guillotine line.

[chrisa]

9. What a tool. By very definition management is to blame. It's called "management" for a reason.

People making minimum wage are to blame for a company closing? Really?

Inexperienced and ignorant comment at best.

[Volaris]

13. Well of COURSE they're to blame...

See if they hadn't been so damned greedy the mill would have had that much more money to compete with China DERPDERPDERP....
(yeah if I need a sarcasm tag you probably should be hanging out somewhere else lol)

[CTyankee]

10. Seeing Foley's ads just reminded me again why I hated him so much 4 years ago...

I had pretty much forgotten that a-hole but back came all my disgust with this man. I like Dan Malloy. He's done some very good stuff for CT. I just wish he could come up with a way to let some of those refugee children on the border into CT, the way Deval Patrick has done in MA. I know he's in a tight race right now, but surely there is a humanitarian way he can figure out...

[madinmaryland]

11. Blame the victims?? What a fucking ass-hat. Wasn't he the leader of the house minority in CT a few

years back? I remember the name. Is he from Greenwich or New Canaan.

[socialist_n_TN]

12. Well, Mr. Foley, as far as I'm concerned.....

why don't we just let the workers expropriate the mill and run it for themselves? Without having to pay those absentee owners any part of the profit, maybe they could actually keep it open and keep those jobs there. Worth a shot anyway.