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TexasTowelie

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Tue Nov 13, 2018, 11:04 PM Nov 2018

Herbst: 'Connecticut Republicans Need A Political Enema'

HARTFORD, CT — What if Republican Bob Stefanowski had distanced himself from Republican President Donald Trump on just a few occasions? Or what if there hadn’t been such a bloody primary with so many candidates?

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Tim Herbst, who lost in the five-way Republican primary to Stefanowski, said he disagrees that losses can simply be chalked up to local involvement in these races.

He said he was helping out Adam Greenberg in the 12th Senate District, which includes, Branford, Guilford, and Madison, and every time they knocked on the door of an unaffiliated voter they were told that Democrats had been there three or four times already.

“Connecticut Republicans need a political enema,” Herbst said Friday, adding that the Republican Party’s field operation was a joke.

Read more: https://www.ctnewsjunkie.com/archives/entry/20181112_herbst_connecticut_republicans_need_a_political_enema/

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