by | Apr 1, 2019 8:04 am | Comments (20)
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The candidate leans in at Crown Street bash.
Mayoral candidate Justin Elicker raced to the end of the campaign’s first financial-reporting period with five events in one day, capped with an open “BAR” for 60 volunteers, donors and friends.
by | Apr 1, 2019 7:42 am | Comments (5)
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Mayor Toni Harp joined a group of more than 30 students from all over the city for a “chew and chill” to check in with constituents who she said will one day run New Haven.
by | Mar 29, 2019 7:59 am | Comments (27)
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East Rock Record’s Isabel Faustino grills Pendragon.
Mayoral candidate Urn Pendragon has personal experience getting bullied: as a nerdy student, as a transgender woman, as someone who has struggled through homelessness and unemployment.
Pendragon told two middle school reporters she considers that experience not a liability, but an asset in her bid to represent the city’s “underrepresented.”
by | Mar 27, 2019 12:42 pm | Comments (22)
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Mayoral candidate Justin Elicker listens to Westville neighbors during a fundraiser …
… organized by Betsy Schulman and Amy Marx.
Justin Elicker lost by 1,800 votes the last time he faced Toni Harp in an election. And back then, she wasn’t even the incumbent. Now, she’s a three-term mayor with access to a powerful GOTV apparatus and deeper campaign pockets.
How does Elicker plan to win this time?
by | Mar 20, 2019 2:31 pm | Comments (38)
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Elicker (left): People deserve to know. Harp campaign chair Bartlett: Elicker’s talking “nonsense” and “hot air.”
City contractors, longtime political allies, and charter-school machers are hosting a $250-$1,000-a-ticket fundraiser for Mayor Toni Harp’s reelection quest in Avon Thursday evening, a day after a state agency voted to launch an investigation into her campaign’s paperwork lapses.
Continue reading ‘Campaign $ Probe, $1,000-Ticket Event Set’
by | Mar 8, 2019 8:39 am | Comments (39)
Democratic mayoral candidate Justin Elicker Thursday filed a complaint against incumbent Mayor Toni Harp Thursday over her 2017 campaign filings.
by | Mar 7, 2019 6:48 pm | Comments (7)
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Mayor Harp answers student reporters’ questions Thursday.
When a reporter for the East Rock Record asked Mayor Toni Harp her thoughts on the anti-vaxxer movement, he got more than a policy answer — he learned about her own childhood, when she battled polio.
by | Feb 15, 2019 8:51 am | Comments (20)
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Harp last week delivering the annual State of the City address.
New Haven Mayor Toni Harp filed papers Thursday at the city clerk’s office to run for a fourth two-year term, and issued Valentine’s Day message to fellow Democrats with a nod to the Rev. Al Green..
by | Feb 14, 2019 1:44 pm | Comments (32)
Liam Brennan on MSNBC.
New Haven Mayor Toni Harp has one less potential opponent in this year’s campaign — after finding him another way to spend his civic time.
Continue reading ‘Brennan Nominated For Board Of Ed; Won’t Run For Mayor’
by | Feb 5, 2019 5:08 pm | Comments (10)
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Elicker (with daughter Molly) as he files papers for mayoral run.
Justin Elicker was ready to talk about changing the way New Haven government runs. He asked for “more time” to provide fully formed positions to some of the most controversial specific choices he might face.
by | Feb 1, 2019 8:34 am | Comments (24)
Gage Frank.
Justin Elicker has drawn a millennial from Bridgeport to guide his challenge to New Haven Mayor Toni Harp.
by | Jan 18, 2019 1:14 pm | Comments (11)
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Wendy Hamilton.
Local activist and philanthropist Wendy Hamilton files a registration form in the City Clerk’s office Thursday to run for mayor.
by | Jan 16, 2019 10:41 am | Comments (43)
Elicker files for primary run, surrounded by campaign supporter Walter Livingston Morton IV, Treasurer Laura Snow Robinson, daughters April and Molly, and wife Natalie Elicker. At right: Assistant City Clerk May Gardner-Reed.
Surrounded by his wife and two young daughters, Justin Elicker filed papers Wednesday to challenge incumbent Toni Harp for mayor — and opened with a focus on cleaning up lead paint in children’s homes and money fueling election campaigns.
by | Jan 3, 2019 1:10 pm | Comments (7)
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Wendy Hamilton protesting outside the office of U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro.
On the first week of her tenure as New Haven’s mayor, Wendy Hamilton promised, taxpayers would save more than $200,000.
by | Dec 19, 2018 6:29 pm | Comments (4)
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Tim Herbst in the Shubert Theater post-debate spin room during the primary campaign.
When Tim Herbst knocked on doors on the shoreline this fall to help a Republican state legislative candidate, he learned that Democrats had beaten him to it. Three times.
Continue reading ‘Tim Herbst: Republicans Need A Ground Game’
by | Dec 19, 2018 2:07 pm | Comments (62)
Liam Brennan, Justin Elicker: Change needed.
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Harp: City’s moving in right direction.
Two 40-something New Haveners —a former alder who runs the Land Trust and an ex-federal prosecutor who targeted government corruption — are “seriously considering” challenging incumbent Toni Harp for mayor in 2019.
The two, Justin Elicker and Liam Brennan, have been meeting with community leaders and activists to build support for Democratic mayoral primary challenges.
by | Dec 6, 2018 8:47 am | Comments (10)
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Joe Markley (center) with State Sen. Len Suzio and Tom Scott at the 2018 state GOP convention.
The advice came from Virginia. It bombed in Connecticut.
Continue reading ‘Markley: Out-of-Staters Misread Connecticut’
by | Nov 29, 2018 5:26 pm | Comments (2)
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Democratic Registrar of Voters Shannel Evans helping to register voters on Election Day.
New Haven already knew that Ned Lamont crushed Bob Stefanowski in the city in the Nov. 6 gubernatorial election. Now people can find out just how many votes those candidates— and all other candidates on the ballot that day — received in each polling district, broken down by machine votes, absentee votes, and same-day-registration votes.
by | Nov 13, 2018 9:00 am | Comments (11)
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State Reps. Dillon & Porter at WNHH FM.
“Team Porter” navigated a newish app to turn out suburban votes. Now Connecticut might get paid family leave, a $15 hourly minimum wage — and maybe even electronic highway tolls.
by | Nov 9, 2018 2:55 pm | Comments (20)
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Registrar Shannel Evans processes same-day registrations as voters (below) wait four hours to cast ballots.
As darkness fell on New Haven Thursday night, citizens rallied on the Green against perceived threats to democracy in the wake of this week’s election.
A block away, in a locked basement bunker in the 200 Orange St. municipal office building with the door window papered over, the election wasn’t over yet.
by | Nov 8, 2018 1:10 pm | Comments (2)
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Achievement First debate team on Wednesday.
The midterm elections left debate team members at Achievement First Amistad High School cold – and questioning their party allegiances.
Continue reading ‘“He’s Playing Both Sides ... Not Doing A Good Job At Either”’
by | Nov 7, 2018 4:00 pm | Comments (4)
Steele checks in with vote pullers Alex Perry, Sr. and Alex Perry, Jr. in the basement of Varick church.
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Ann Robinson with pastor and vote-puller Kelcy Steele.
When New Haveners like Ann Robinson produced a 23,278-vote city victory margin Tuesday to elect Connecticut’s next governor, they weren’t thinking as much about Ned Lamont. They were thinking about Donald Trump.
And in Robinson’s case, about Greenville, N.C.
by | Nov 7, 2018 3:58 pm | Comments (25)
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Some of the hundreds waiting four hours to vote Tuesday.
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Democratic Registrar of Voters Shannel Evans assembles hand-count team at 1:42 a.m. at Edgewood School.
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Merrill: No excuses.
Hours after most Connecticut communities had reported their election results, New Haven’s leading voting official arrived at Edgewood School after midnight Wednesday with a team of election workers and began counting 1,968 ballots. By hand.
by | Nov 7, 2018 2:06 pm | Comments (5)
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Looney, at senator, with fellow victorious New Haven legislators at a pre-election rally.
New Haven’s voting officials may have ended up as national embarrassments Tuesday after a day of election disasters, but New Haven’s Democratic elected officials emerged as big winners.
by | Nov 7, 2018 2:01 pm | Comments (3)
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(Updated) Like other New Haveners heading out of town to try to propel a blue wave this election season, New Haven journalist and filmmaker Steve Hamm traveled across state lines to campaign for New York Congressional candidate Antonio Delgado. Here’s what Hamm has to say about his experience campaigning for the New York Democratic challenger:
Even among died-in-the-wool Democrats, misinformation about immigrants stirs up fear and resentment. That’s one scary insight I picked up while canvassing for Antonio Delgado, a Black Latino who is running for Congress in New York’s 19th District — in the mid-Hudson Valley.
It wasn’t bad enough to decide the outcome of the election.In a victory for decency, enough white voters overlooked race to elect a black man in the whitest congressional district in New York.
Continue reading ‘To Just Enough People, Race Didn’t Matter’