Updated 3/4 1 p.m. — After a highly contentious, record-breaking primary on Tuesday, Hamden’s Democrats handed the keys to the party’s leadership to the progressive wing of the party in a decisive victory for many of the newer voices in Hamden politics.
(Update) Two leading Connecticut politicians of yore — former New Haven Mayor Toni Harp and former state Democratic Chairman Ed Marcus — would have co-chaired Mike Bloomberg’s presidential campaign in the state.
If Bloomberg had been continued running for the Democratic nomination.
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Thomas Breen & Laura Glesby |
Feb 28, 2020 2:53 pm
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The race is on in Newhallville, where eight candidates in four different slates are vying to become the neighborhood’s next hyperlocal Democratic Party leaders.
At stake: concerns ranging from crime to traffic, voter registration to attention from City Hall, and bolstering the Democratic Party’s strength in an all-but-single-party city to reforming party bylaws in the direction of transparency and accountability.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Feb 27, 2020 6:11 pm
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As Democrats in Hamden prepare for a contentious town committee primary next week, people on both sides of a political divide in the town said the other side has mounted a coordinated campaign for influence.
While Bernie Sanders was pulling off a left-Democratic victory in Nevada, two local candidates with similar roots in progressive politics summoned supporters to separate fundraisers on the same day — for the same seat.
On a week when opponents have attacked him on race, presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg has picked up the support of New Haven’s most prominent African-American elected official of the past two decades.
Brett Broesder saw opportunity in the Democratic presidential field in the wake of Tuesday’s New Hampshire Democratic primary, in which several once-prominent candidates tanked, the three leading candidates were all clustered within six points of each other, no one captured more than 26 percent of the vote, and several campaigns died.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Feb 11, 2020 9:37 am
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Manchester, N.H.— Deval Patrick was in the midst of an answer about job creation when a middle-aged woman clutching a blue leather bible walked in the door of the bookstore where he was making a last appeal to voters.
“My name is Licarda,” the woman with the bible began, interrupting another questioner in line. “I have mental illness issue, and the system is broken in our nation.”
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Allan Appel |
Feb 10, 2020 3:33 pm
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Mark Oliver faced an array of choices when he joined neighbors in a “ranked-choice” voting process of deciding how to spend $20,000 to improve Fair Haven.
After four decades of running largely unopposed in either the primary or general election, or both, State Senate President Pro Tem Martin Looney faces 2020 challenges from both the ideological left and right.
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Thomas Breen |
Feb 9, 2020 11:39 pm
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Manchester, N.H.— Amy Klobuchar is having a moment, just in time for the first-in-the-nation presidential primary. A diner discussion with 6‑year-old Joanna Vachon and an SRO college rally showed how she is making connections with voters still looking for a candidate to support on Tuesday.
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Thomas Breen |
Feb 8, 2020 8:10 pm
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Concord, N.H.—Is there room for “pro-life Democrats” in the Democratic Party of 2020?
Depends on whom you ask. The ascendant Midwestern moderate in the race for the party’s presidential nomination sees plenty of room for “future former Republicans.” The leading progressive candidate is not so sure.
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Thomas Breen |
Feb 8, 2020 7:59 pm
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Concord, N.H.—The Supreme Court is broken — politicized, co-opted by right-wing extremists, weighed down by lifetime appointees.
Democratic presidential candidate after candidate at a primary campaign forum here today agreed on that diagnosis. They differed on what the next president should do about it.
Kathy Hoyt talks to home buyers and homeowners in New Haven County every day, and after hearing over and over that people can’t afford to live in Connecticut, she aims to change that — by trying to unseat State Rep. Josh Elliott.
Top state Democrats turned out in force Tuesday night to help union organizer Jorge Cabrera kick off a rematch State Senate challenge that pits two starkly different political visions against each other.
After a heated set of caucuses for Hamden’s Democratic Town Committee (DTC) earlier in the month, primaries for the committee in seven Legislative Council districts are now set, exceeding the town’s record.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Jan 22, 2020 5:15 pm
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Peterborough, N.H. — Marty Dunleavy wore a thick, baggy pair of dark-green plaid wool pants as he stood outside of Mary Maughan’s door. They were not stylish. But they did the job: They protected their wearer from an icy wind, as they have done in every presidential campaign since 2000.
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Allan Appel |
Jan 21, 2020 3:21 pm
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Traffic calming on dangerously fast Quinnipiac Avenue came in first by a length. Storm-drain art placed second. Boat-launch improvements and butterfly gardens tied for third.
Those were the preliminary results a friendly horse race of pet projects, to be decided through ranked-choice voting, for how to spend $20,000 in public money to improve Fair Haven Heights.
Elliott was back knocking on New Hampshire doors Sunday — but this time for Elizabeth Warren, Sanders’ chief progressive opponent in the upcoming first-in-the-nation Democratic presidential primary.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Nov 25, 2019 8:35 am
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As Hamden Mayor Curt Leng stood with his left arm over his wife Stephanie’s shoulder and his right arm raised in front of him, palm facing forward, four words jumped out at him: “Faithfully discharge your duties.”