by | Jul 27, 2019 11:10 pm | Comments (0)
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Cotton candy and inflatable castles came to a Fitch Street parking lot on Saturday afternoon at a block party outside Mayor Toni Harp’s campaign office co-hosted by a longstanding motorcycle club.
by | Jul 27, 2019 9:58 pm | Comments (0)
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Jill Marks.
Jill Marks said she wants to keep bringing park improvements, speed bumps, jobs, and a spirit of unity to Ward 28 — and asked voters to help her do that by electing her to a third two-year term on the Board of Alders.
by | Jul 25, 2019 7:54 am | Comments (23)
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Facing Off: Rose, Looney.
The Harp Administration has publicly criticized New Haven State Sen. Martin Looney again — and Looney has swung back again.
by | Jul 24, 2019 7:56 am | Comments (1)
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Kaye fills out paperwork after receiving the endorsement.
Hamden Republicans rallied support for 15 candidates running for municipal office on Tuesday night — over twice the number of candidates the party put up for election in 2017.
Continue reading ‘Hamden GOP Endorses Kaye & 14-Member Slate’
by | Jul 23, 2019 2:12 pm | Comments (15)
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Elicker, Frank review paperwork at Registrar of Voters Office.
• Elicker submits first batch of petitions to make primary ballot.
• Plans to petition for unaffiliated slot on Nov. 5 ballot.
• “Affordable housing comes up all the time now” on the trail.
by | Jul 22, 2019 7:49 am | Comments (19)
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Ellen Cupo at Sunday’s campaign kick off.
Labor organizer Ellen Cupo kicked off her campaign to be the next Wooster Square alder with a commitment to fighting for affordable housing and community-developer communication in one of the hottest real estate markets in the city.
by | Jul 22, 2019 7:48 am | Comments (21)
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Rev. Steven Cousin (center): Emphasize the positive.
Amid a campaign season of complaints and conspiracy theories, mayoral candidates took a brief pause from the animosity on Sunday afternoon to say something nice about each other.
by | Jul 21, 2019 10:00 am | Comments (6)
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Alfie Barlow: “Yeah, I’ll help you out.”
After the Democratic Town Committee voted to endorse Toni Harp for mayor, Justin Elicker and his team of volunteers set to work in the hundred-degree heat to get his name on the ballot for the Democratic primary election, one signature at a time.
Continue reading ‘Elicker Petition Squad Hits Pavement In 100-Degree Heat’
by | Jul 19, 2019 12:13 pm | Comments (37)
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Delegates ready to vote at Thursday night’s convention.
When Democratic committees bar the public from public meetings and disregard the votes of the majority of their members, they risk “hollow[ing] out the party from its roots.”
That criticism of New Haven’s ward-level politics came this week not just from dissenters in the trenches — but from the head of the Democratic Party itself.
by | Jul 18, 2019 7:26 pm | Comments (62)
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Harp accepting party endorsement; touts “renaissance.”
New Haven’s Democratic Town Committee endorsed Toni Harp for mayor for a fourth two-year term Thursday night, setting the stage for a contested primary.
by | Jul 18, 2019 12:03 pm | Comments (2)
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The Republican Town Committee at its convention Wednesday night.
The Republican Town Committee endorsed three candidates running to serve on the Board of Alders at a convention held Wednesday night: Chris Marcisz of Yale’s Ward 1, John Carlson of City Point’s Ward 6, and Josh Van Hoesen of Upper Westville’s Ward 26.
by | Jul 17, 2019 8:02 pm | Comments (21)
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Ron Hurt leads fellow alders in prayer at endorsement.
If the election were up to New Haven’s Board of Alders, Toni Harp would be reelected mayor this year.
by | Jul 17, 2019 12:47 pm | Comments (6)
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The candidate with Beaver Pond preservationist Nan Bartow.
Mayoral hopeful Seth Poole got his start in politics chairing the WEB (Whalley, Edgewood, Beaver Hill) community management team. He and his neighbors fought successfully to relocate the police firing range from Sherman Parkway — close to his beloved grandmother’s house — to its new location, well out of residential earshot.
by | Jul 17, 2019 8:02 am | Comments (20)
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Dennis Serfilippi.
A citizen budget watchdog has decided to stop just complaining about the government and try to improve it himself, by running for office.
Continue reading ‘Serfilippi Challenging Marchand In Westville’
by | Jul 17, 2019 8:00 am | Comments (4)
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A total of 20 Ward 21 committee members voted.
The Ward 21 Democratic committee voted in favor of mayoral candidate Justin Elicker Tuesday night along with incumbent Alder Steven Winter, Board of Education incumbent Darnell Goldson, and City Clerk Michael Smart.
by | Jul 17, 2019 7:43 am | Comments (8)
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Curt Leng at Tuesday night’s convention.
Amid calls for unity, Hamden Democrats split on Tuesday about whom to endorse for mayor, with incumbent Curt Leng outpacing Councilwoman Lauren Garrett by only seven votes.
by | Jul 16, 2019 2:08 pm | Comments (24)
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Rev. Kimber and Mayor Harp join hands in campaign prayer.
The Rev. Boise Kimber led two dozen black and Hispanic pastors Tuesday in endorsing Mayor Toni Harp’s reelection — and committed to knocking on doors, handing out flyers, raising money, and running social media promotions on her behalf.
by | Jul 16, 2019 8:04 am | Comments (9)
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Mayoral candidates Wendy Hamilton, Toni Harp, Urn Pendragon, and Justin Elicker at the Ward 8 Democratic committee meeting.
Seth Poole entered his 3‑year-old’s name into multiple school lotteries. His kid didn’t get into any of the schools.
He brought that up during a political gathering Monday night at which he and four other mayoral candidates agreed that the system needs to change for how kids get into desired New Haven schools.
by | Jul 15, 2019 2:54 pm | Comments (10)
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Luiz Casanova.
First Luiz Casanova sued Mayor Toni Harp for not naming him police chief. Now he has endorsed a candidate looking to boot her from City Hall.
by | Jul 10, 2019 8:57 pm | Comments (19)
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Mayor Toni Harp and challenger Justin Elicker.
Excerpt from Elicker campaign fundraising email.
Mayor Toni Harp helped challenger Justin Elicker take in money — by launching attacks ads that he turned into fundraising opportunities
Meanwhile, buttressed by city government contractors and builders, the mayor’s reelection campaign closed part of its fundraising gap with Elicker by nearly quadrupling its total donations between the first and second quarters of the year.
Those two campaign finance takeways emerge in the the second-quarter (Q2) mayoral campaign financial reports covering donations received by Elicker and Harp between April 1 and June 30.
by | Jul 10, 2019 3:59 pm | Comments (25)
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Thirty years apart, Amber Moye and Darnell Goldson ran for student office at Hillhouse High School, and won. Now they’re running against each other for a Board of Education seat — and this time only one of them can win.
by | Jul 10, 2019 3:31 pm | Comments (2)
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Hamden Mayor Curt Leng.
Hamden’s teachers union Wednesday announced that it has endorsed Mayor Curt Leng’s reelection campaign.
by , and | Jul 9, 2019 8:22 am | Comments (25)
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Ward 26 Co-Chair Sharon Jones collecting votes at Manjares: “This is what democracy is about.”
Three more Democratic committees that supported Toni Harp for mayor in 2013 voted Monday night to back her challenger instead this year — putting old friends like Sharon Jones and Audrey Tyson in a bind.
by | Jul 9, 2019 7:40 am | Comments (7)
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The committee gets ready to count the votes.
The West Hills and West Rock neighborhood’s Democratic Party ward committee unanimously voted to endorse retired public space inspector Honda Smith for alder in a race against the committee’s own co-chair, and the ward’s incumbent alder, Michelle Edmonds-Sepulveda.
Edmonds-Sepulveda never arrived at the meeting. She was boycotting it.
Continue reading ‘West Hills Dems Back Honda Smith’s Alder Challenge’
by | Jul 8, 2019 2:11 pm | Comments (3)
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Environmental advocate Laura Cahn recording her testimonial for the “I HARP New Haven” video.
People of all walks of life support Justin Elicker.
New Haven’s great — and so is Mayor Toni Harp’s record.
Continue reading ‘New Videos Stress Harp Record, Elicker Diversity’