Meet Joe Visconti

Joseph Visconti

Joseph B. Visconti was born in Hartford and has spent most of his life in the Greater Hartford area.

Joe is a businessman, a member of the West Hartford Town Council, patron of the arts and community activist. He serves on the council’s Community Planning and Development Committee, and is a Council liaison to the West Hartford Board of Education.

Joe was born December 9, 1956 at Hartford Hospital, the third of four children born to Anne and the late Joseph Visconti. He attended M.D. Fox Elementary School in Hartford, and Bulkeley High School before moving to West Hartford and graduating from Hall High School in 1974.

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Visconti for Congress - First Congressional District CT
Visconti Proposes Emergency Home Heating Relief from Strategic Petroleum Reserves
Written by Susan Schaffman   

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Joe Visconti 860-989-0471

Visconti Proposes Emergency Home Heating
Relief from Strategic Petroleum Reserves

Supplies Would Go Directly to State Emergency
Fuel Banks, Not Oil Cartel Profits

Joseph Visconti, Republican candidate for Connecticut's First Congressional District Thursday proposed utilizing some of the country's Strategic Petroleum Reserve to provide Americans with emergency heating fuel this winter.

Visconti's proposal differs significantly from calls by his Democratic opponent to open up the Strategic Reserve to the marketplace to increase gasoline supplies in an effort to reduce gas prices.

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Visconti Labels Larson Backing Obama "Big Mistake!"
Written by Ron Winter   

“Which of Obama’s beliefs should we believe in?”

1st Congressional District Candidate Joe Visconti

Joe Visconti, the GOP 1st Congressional District Candidate, today labeled the Democratic incumbent's support of Barrack Obama, “the biggest mistake in John Larson’s political career.”

Visconti says that "most Americans are well aware of Obama's use of hot-button issues, including race, during the Democratic primaries. Many resent Obama demanding in his speech the evening of June 3, 2008, that now we should not make race, religion or patriotism an issue during the fall elections."

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Visconti Views Opponent's Iraq Comments as 'Political Opportunism'
Written by Susan Schaffman   
WEST HARTFORD, CT -- West Hartford Councilman and Republican First Congressional District Candidate Joseph Visconti today blasted comments made by his opponent who demanded that Iraq increase the pace of its takeover of combat operations from US forces, calling the remarks "political opportunism at its worst."

Last week incumbent Democrat Congressman John Larson flew to Iraq and demanded that the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, which has won two major battles against Iran-backed terrorists in recent weeks, step up the pace of its combat operations.
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