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Jorge Cabrera on the Stop & Shop picket line last year.
(Opinion) Eversource is a prime example of a corporation that suffocates Connecticut’s working families.
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by | Sep 18, 2020 4:20 pm | Comments (41)
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Josh Elliott, Kathy Hoyt out seeking votes: Split on policing.
Josh Elliott was holding a stack of campaign flyers calling for defunding police when he asked voter Craig Wiehler what issues concern him.
“I would like,” said Wiehler, “to not see the police defunded.”
by | Sep 15, 2020 9:52 pm | Comments (7)
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Gloria La Riva at rally on the Green.
A presidential candidate campaigned in New Haven Tuesday afternoon with an improvised speaker list — inviting homeless people walking by to tell their story.
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by | Sep 15, 2020 5:05 pm | Comments (4)
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Logan and Cabrera on the campaign trail.
George Logan and Jorge Cabrera agree about one thing: Families in Connecticut’s 17th State Senate District struggle with the costs of living.
But when it comes to what to do about it, one promotes paid family medical leave and a $15 minimum wage. The other argues those policies choke businesses, and tax dollars, out of the state.
by | Aug 31, 2020 2:26 pm | Comments (26)
Alt candidates on the ballot. Clockwise from top left: Alex Taubes, Jason Bartlett, Justin Paglino, Paul Garlinghouse, and Sergio Rodriguez.
New Haven could have four different registrars of voters next year, now that a second third-party candidate has qualified for the Nov. 3 general election ballot.
In total, five major party alternatives (that is, candidates who are neither Democrats nor Republicans) in various state and local races have gathered enough valid signatures to appear on New Haven’s general election ballots this November.
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by | Aug 25, 2020 3:56 pm | Comments (7)
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Paul Garlinghouse at a campaign event on the Green.
What do you call a three-way race in which two candidates automatically win?
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by , and | Aug 13, 2020 9:29 pm | Comments (10)
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I remember you: Cabrera, Logan.
Republican State Sen. George Logan will run again against labor leader Jorge Cabrera, a Democrat he beat by only 77 votes two years ago, now that Cabrera has won a Democratic primary for his seat.
by | Aug 13, 2020 4:40 pm | Comments (5)
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Smart offering curbside clerk service: Mail ballots earlier next time?
Michael Smart has an idea for how the state can better navigate the next flood of absentee ballots coming our way on Nov. 3.
by , , and | Aug 11, 2020 10:28 pm | Comments (18)
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Oliver Augustine and Kanesha Crenshaw staff the Ward 25 Republican check-in table at Edgewood School: 16-hour shift, only 22 actual Republicans showing up.
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Top row: Alder Adam Marchand, Democratic Co-Chair Janis Underwood outside Edgewood School Ward 25 polls; inside, poll worker Trish Welfare came prepared with PPE. Bottom row: Rose DeMatteo, Andrea Offutt-Miller and Selina Hobby begin tabulating absentee ballots at 200 Orange St. after noon on Tuesday.
(Updated) Joe Biden and Donald Trump will have to wait at least two days to find out precisely how many votes they won in New Haven Tuesday against candidates who aren’t running against them for president.
Meanwhile, platoons of poll workers spent 16 hours at 40 polling stations in town where they mostly outnumbered the people who entered to vote — when any voters were present at all.
Continue reading ‘Poll Workers Outnumber Voters; 4,700+ Vote Absentee; Some Ballots Never Came’
by | Aug 10, 2020 12:10 pm | Comments (1)
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Justin Farmer and Jorge Cabrera, 2 progressives facing off Tuesday in region’s only real contest, on the doors this weekend in Hamden.
John Motley was in the mood for conversation when a 26-year-old would-be state senator knocked on his door. He wasn’t the only one.
by | Aug 10, 2020 12:04 pm | Comments (5)
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Westville Alder Darryl Brackeen, Jr.
(Opinion) As a nation, we are facing troubling times during this pandemic. But the truth is many issues, gaps, and weaknesses have been exposed within so many of our state institutions. Not only the vulnerabilities in our healthcare system but equally true of our voting system as well.
by | Jul 30, 2020 8:04 pm | Comments (19)
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Harp and Bartlett at Thursday night’s Zoom marathon-endorsement.
Former Mayor Toni Harp endorsed a former top city aide for a job she once held in Hartford: state senator from the 10th District.
by | Jul 29, 2020 12:25 pm | Comments (0)
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Nikki Haley, one of the national Republican Party’s leading female political figures, has endorsed Margaret Streicker’s campaign for Congress.
by | Jul 29, 2020 10:04 am | Comments (2)
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Jorge Cabrera invoked his 25 years as a labor leader, saying he would fight for working families if elected. Justin Farmer vowed to bring a new generation to politics that will fix problems created by previous ones.
Those were the core messages from the two candidates competing in a Democratic primary for state senator as they faced off in a campaign debate.
Continue reading ‘Debate Theme: Workers’ Fighter vs. Generation Change Agent’
by | Jul 24, 2020 9:35 am | Comments (2)
Jamilah Prince-Stewart, organizer of faith voting drive.
FaithActs for Education, a Black-led community organizing nonprofit based in Bridgeport, will include New Haven in its fifth annual Faith Votes Campaign with a goal of activating 3,000 voters in this year’s elections.
FaithActs recently announced it will be expanding its voter education and turnout campaign into Hartford and New Haven for the first time.
Continue reading ‘She’s Bringing The Voting Faith Back Home’
by | Jul 23, 2020 3:55 pm | Comments (3)
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Evans outside 200 Orange: Hand sanitizers, face masks, social distancing in place.
As the first absentee ballots start arriving in the mail, Shannel Evans has a message for voters: You have different options — all safe — for exercising your Constitutional right in the Aug. 11 primary.
by | Jul 20, 2020 4:21 pm | Comments (0)
Jorge Cabrera continued winning labor endorsements for his quest to become the next state senator from the 17th District.
by | Jul 20, 2020 9:22 am | Comments (18)
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Paglino petitioning at farmers’ market.
Wearing a bright blue mask emblazoned with the words, “Medicare for All,” Justin Paglino wandered among shoppers of healthful greens to pitch them on helping a Green candidate run Congress on a universal health care platform.
by | Jul 14, 2020 1:00 pm | Comments (4)
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Weeks before a Democratic primary, State Senate candidate Justin Farmer cleared a hurdle with the approval of a state public-financing grant for his campaign, and got a boost from another endorsement.
by | Jul 13, 2020 2:59 pm | Comments (5)
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Jim Owen dropped in on his neighbor Shawna Reed to discuss two potentially fruitful matters: absentee ballots and black raspberries.
by | Jul 3, 2020 6:04 pm | Comments (1)
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Registrar Evans: Focus on keeping people safe.
New Haven voters who turn out for the Aug. 11 presidential primaries can expect to see some changes: Poll workers will wear protective gowns and masks. They will hold the door so voters don’t have to touch the handle. Someone will squirt sanitizer into their hands. Poll workers’ temperatures will be taken. Voters will have to maintain six feet distance from each other.
Continue reading ‘Safety Measures In Place For Primary Election’
by | Jul 2, 2020 6:14 pm | Comments (13)
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Youth-led march on police headquarters.
(Opinion) The last several weeks have seen an outpouring of energy from America’s youth. Furious about police brutality and systemic racism, young people have taken to the streets in protest. On June 5, a youth-led protest in New Haven drew an estimated 5,000 attendees, and saw enormous participation from high school students like us. We witnessed firsthand as hundreds of people our age marched, chanted, waved signs, and demanded social justice.
by | Jul 2, 2020 2:58 pm | Comments (0)
A federal judge has for the second time quashed Jason Bartlett’s bid for rule changes to enable him to appear on the Aug. 11 State Senate primary ballot.
by | Jun 30, 2020 1:15 pm | Comments (2)
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Jorge Cabrera on the Stop & Shop picket line last year.
Citing his work as a union organizer, the Connecticut AFL-CIO has endorsed Jorge Cabrera’s bid for the 17th State Senate District seat.
by | Jun 28, 2020 2:55 pm | Comments (1)
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Anthony Fiore: You can make a change as a high schooler.
Anthony Fiore needed perseverance during the Covid-19 pandemic to collect the signatures he needed for his election as student representative to the Board of Education.
Continue reading ‘Student Persists To Join Pandemic-Era Board of Ed’