Somebody Must be Nervous. Esty Friends Use Push Poll Against Greenberg.

Friends of Elizabeth Esty are anxious about the political climate in Connecticut’s 5th Congressional District. The haughty first term Democratic incumbent is seeing some startling poll numbers in her race against Republican Mark Greenberg, Daily Ructions has learned. Confirmation of the early stages of panic came this week when a Daily Ructions reader provided a hurried summary of questions from a telephone push poll aimed at Greenberg. The calls appear to be coming from California.

Esty’s problem is not just Greenberg, it’s incumbent Democratic Governor Dannel P. Malloy. His numbers in the 5th are endangering other Democrats. Reliably Democratic labor groups are clashing with Malloy campaign operatives. Teachers will not be moved–no matter how many bonding baubles Malloy sprinkles around the district. And then there’s that federal grand jury investigating Democratic politics in Waterbury.

Here are some topics the push poll raises:

50 separate lawsuits and liens associated with Greenberg and his businesses.

 Raise property taxes by over $300 million if he gets his way and eliminates all the federal education funding that Connecticut gets.

 Signed a pledge to protect tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas.

 Publicly identifies himself with the extremist Tea Party movement

 Wants to privatize Social Security

 Signed a pledge to protect over $50 billion in special tax loopholes for Big Oil.

What he doesn’t tell you is that his companies have defaulted on over $15 million in mortgages and loans.

 Best case against Mark Greenberg?

 1)    Out of touch

2)    Too extreme

3)    Bad for seniors and the middle class,

4)    Companies abused his tenants and engaged in abusive business practices

This will be the first time Esty has worried about property taxes. She told Cheshire seniors if they didn’t like their property taxes the solution is to move.