Brian Wingate and Abby Feldman going door to door: “I believe if we stayed with him a little while longer, we could have converted him.”
New Haveners at AFSCME Local 1303 in New Britain.
Under a clear autumn sky, New Haven Rising organizer Abby Feldman and Beaver Hills Alder Brian Wingate went door to door — in New Britain — urging fellow union members to vote blue this November, as the traveling New Haveners made a worker-power pitch for Democrats in one of the most hotly contested House of Representatives districts in the country.
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Then-mayoral candidates Justin Elicker and John Carlson, and Democracy Fund Administrator Aly Heimer, at an October debate.
Mayor Justin Elicker out-fundraised his Republican challenger John Carlson by nearly 9 to 1 during last year’s mayoral race, which saw the incumbent Democrat swept into office for a second two-year term.
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Teachers union challenge slate members Leslie Blatteau, Michael Soares, Mia Comulada Breuler, Kirsten Hopes-McFadden, Jonathan Berryman, and Jennifer Graves.
A “Fighting for Our Future” challenger slate is running its campaign the way it plans to run the teachers union if elected in two weeks — pushing for member re-empowerment and “circular” leadership.
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State’s first elected DSA slate — Justin Farmer, Mariam Khan, Abdul-Razak Osmanu — campaigning together.
More than sixty years since Bridgeport ousted their last socialist administration, the state’s first slate of candidates running on a democratic socialist platform is taking office in Hamden.
Members of Cicarella/DeLucia slate at Goodfellas campaign kick-off.
Dave Cicarella, president of the New Haven Federation of Teachers, is looking to get re-elected next month with a slate of educators promising strength in continuity and experience to accomplish unfinished goals.
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Newly elected alders. Clockwise from top left: Sal Punzo, Alex Guzhnay, Devin Avshalom-Smith, Sarah Miller, and Shafiq Abdussabur.
The son of Ecuadorian immigrants, a Fair Haven community organizer, a retired former principal, a state legislative aide, and a retired former police sergeant/community activist will join the Board of Alders next year, as newly elected members of the local legislature’s Class of 2022.
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Mayor-Elect Garrett FaceTimes with her mom after Tuesday victory.
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Victorious Democratic Board of Ed candidate Mariam Khan and Council candidate Abdul-Razak Osmanu with Democratic Town Committee member Sana Shaw Tuesday night.
Hamden continued its progression to a deep-blue town Tuesday night as Democrat Lauren Garrett won election as mayor.
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Jingle-jangle morning: Greens Patricia Kane and Allan Brison shake for change outside Jepson polling station.
Leslie Crescenzi came to the polls Tuesday undecided on whom to vote for as her alder. She desired change but wasn’t familiar with the candidates. Then a loud ringing made up her mind.
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Alder candidates Addie Kimbrough and Devin Avshalom-Smith outside Lincoln Bassett on Tuesday.
The issues of gun violence, good jobs, and clean streets brought Newhallville voters to the polls Tuesday, as they came out to choose a mayor, city-town clerk, and new local legislative representative for Ward 20.
• We’ll be posting real-time results from New Haven and Hamden and then posting articles through the evening. • Starting at 8 p.m., Babz Rawls-Ivy, Markeshia Ricks and Michelle Turner break down the results and speak with candidates on a special election edition of WNHH’s “LoveBabz LoveTalk.” Click here to listen (livestream) or here to watch (on Facebook).
Democrat Justin Elicker and Republican John Carlson at New Haven’s mayoral campaign debate. (At right, Democracy Fund’s Alyson Heimer.)
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Members of Hamden’s Democratic candidate slate (above) and Republican slate (below) at campaign events.
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Voters will have a chance to pick some new leaders, rehire some current ones, and perhaps help settle a long-running question or two in Tuesday’s municipal elections.
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Jay Kaye hits the doors with humble, home-printed campaign lit.
Kaye reunites with local GOP members, like Marjorie Bonadies (center), at Thursday’s forum.
On a recent Tuesday afternoon, a 6’6’’ man approached Morse Street residents, motioned towards an empty lot at 560 Newhall St., and asked: “What would you like to see built there?”
They responded: Another neighborhood school, Dunkin’ Donuts, affordable apartments, a bike store, “I don’t know,” and “Who are you?”
The man starting the conversation was Jay Kaye, the only Independent Party member formally running for elected office this year in Hamden. (Al Lotto, also an independent, is running for mayor as a write-in candidate.) He is competing for one of six at-large Legislative Council seats, alongside four Democrats and four Republicans, in Nov. 2’s general election.
Upper Westville candidates Van Hoesen and Brackeen this week at WNHH FM: Both are vaxxed.
One candidate handed out assignments to dozens of neighbors: Here’s your street. Here are the doors to knock on. Here are flyers to hand out. Let us know who’s voting.
At another end of the ward, the other candidate set out to meet voters as well. Alone.
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Ron Gambardella with cannabis vendors at Hamden’s weekly “High Bazaar.”
Green jobs — including cannabis jobs — got a thumb’s up while crime fears and affordable housing sparked differing visions at the final debate leading up to Tuesday’s Hamden mayoral election.
Ward 18 candidates Republican Steve Orosco (not vaxxed) and Sal DeCola (not saying).
Tweed New Haven’s Airport’s expansion is on the ballot this coming Tuesday, as a five-term incumbent Morris Cove Democrat squares off against a Republican challenger for the Board of Alders seat in Ward 18.
Good schools, clean parks, safe streets — and, now that you mention it, a responsible neighborhood airport — top the priority lists of two local educators who are running to fill an open Board of Alders seat in the Annex.
Board of Ed candidates James O’Connell and Edward Joyner appear in the same spot in the above photo — but only because of computerized cropping. This election season, Joyner refuses to engage with his opponent in person.
Same holds for Ward 26 alder candidates Darryl Brackeen and Joshua Van Hoesen, above. For the second straight campaign, Brackeen refuses to show up along with his opponent to debate the issues.
Touting results and warning against complacency, federal, state, and local Democratic officials descended upon New Haven on a crisp fall Saturday to boost the mayor’s campaign in the final stretch leading up to the Nov. 2 general election.
