Kingmaker Mauro: “I’m just a fat guy from the Elm City with the best team in the state. Maybe the country.”
(Updated) Ned Lamont will be the next governor of Connecticut, thanks to New Haven.
Voters here gave Lamont a 23,278-vote victory margin — which will continue to grow as more votes are counted — over Republican Bob Stefanowski, the largest single vote total in the state.
Stefanowski conceded to the Greenwich Democrat on Wednesday morning, even as New Haven continued counting its ballots after a disastrous election day muddled by broken voting machines.
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Nov 7, 2018 1:07 am
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Part of the voting traffic jam at City Hall to register.
Double breakdowns in New Haven’s elections Tuesday have thrown the city’s vote-count into chaos — and prompted Republican gubernatorial Bob Stefanowski to go to court to segregate some of the city’s ballots.
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Nov 6, 2018 8:51 am
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Rosa DeLauro at Monday night’s get-out-the-vote rally.
Party stalwarts cheer DeLauro at Betsy Ross Parish House.
Dancing across the stage with her fist raised above a shock of purple-dyed hair, New Haven’s 75-year-old Congresswoman taught veteran and neophyte Connecticut Democrats alike how to send campaigners into the electoral battle of their lives.
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Nov 5, 2018 1:51 pm
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WALLINGFORD — Not everyone in the room for Republican Bob Stefanowski’s get-out-the-vote rally Sunday voted for President Donald Trump. At least two of more than 400 in attendance are members of the Democratic Party.
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Nov 5, 2018 8:45 am
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State Rep. Robyn Porter helps serve pizza during Sunday night’s get-out-the-vote rally.
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Lieutenant governor candidate Susan Bysiewicz works the crowd.
Donald Trump wasn’t physically present at the Bella Vista senior complex in the Heights on Sunday night.
But at an annual New Haven pre-election ritual, the Republican president was at the center of nearly every pitch made by a dozen Democratic candidates seeking local, state, and national offices.
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Sarah Ganong submits petitions to City Clerk Michael Smart to qualify for the 2017 municipal ballot.
(Opinion) My name is Sarah Ganong. Folks in New Haven might recognize me from last year’s ballot for mayor, when I ran to secure future municipal ballot access for the Working Families Party on Row C. I only needed 1 percent of the vote to get it done, but the remarkable, grassroots support of our community brought nearly eight times that. I was inspired again and again by the excitement I heard about bringing Row C and the Working Families Party to New Haven elections.
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Nov 2, 2018 1:37 pm
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Democratic State Rep. Roland Lemar.
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Republican challenger Eric Mastroianni, Sr.
Force Connecticut suburbs to allow for multi-family, affordable housing. Invest in faster rail service between New Haven and New York. Regionalize school systems to eliminate duplicative services.
And don’t repeal the income tax. Raise it, at least for high-income families.
Hearing his opponent interviewed on radio, Angel Cadena pulled his truck off the road, logged onto Facebook, and shared the interview — to make sure his supporters tuned in.
Challenging his Democratic opponent for urban votes on an urban issue, independent gubernatorial candidate Oz Griebel came to the New Haven Green to call for “ending mass incarceration” and expunging criminal records sooner.
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Oct 31, 2018 4:40 pm
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Ned Lamont makes the rounds at Wednesday afternoon’s meet-and-greet with Dixwell seniors.
High taxes. Vacant buildings. Gun violence at churches and at schools. And looming cuts to social services for the elderly.
Those were a few of the myriad concerns that seniors from the Dixwell/Newhallville Senior Center presented to Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ned Lamont during a Wednesday afternoon campaign stop at Bethel AME Church at 255 Goffe St.
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Oct 30, 2018 4:29 pm
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Bysiewicz encounters … could it be? … another Natalino!
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Guide Natalino with the candidate;house at rear belonged to Natalino’s father Michael.
If you’re a candidate door-knocking on a particular street in Fair Haven Heights with someone named Natalino whose family has been there for 60 years … and if at least four houses on said street have Natalinos still in them and another half dozen get their driveways plowed by a Natalino during heavy snowstorms when the city is slow arriving … well, you’re fairly guaranteed a warm reception.
No, independent gubernatorial candidate Oz Griebel responded, he didn’t get a backroom handshake promising him a job in a Lamont administration in return for siphoning off Republican voters.
In fact, he argued, his Democratic and Republican opponents are siphoning off his voters: The middle-of-the-road majority.
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HealthHavenHub Executive Director David Pearlstone and Co-Founder Donna Lecky with Ned Lamont in New Haven Tuesday night.
On the ninth floor of a Church Street office complex, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ned Lamont Tuesday night showed a room full of entrepreneurs and techies that he can speak their language. Including their buzzwords.
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Oct 24, 2018 7:50 am
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Candidate surrounded by American Green Fuels staff
A thriving small factory in the New Haven harbor district that turns french fry and other vegetable oil and animal fat into carbon emission-reducing biodiesel fuel has over the past year increased its production capacity from 20 million gallons a year to 40 million – in part because it had a $20 million infusion of private investment for upgrades and new equipment.
It needs government help to take the next step to become a bigger part of the Connecticut’s green energy future.
In Georgia, Democrats are accusing the secretary of the state of blocking tens of thousands of black people from voting. In New Haven Sunday, black women working to turn out the vote heard a promise from Connecticut’s secretary of the state that she’ll make it easier, not harder, to vote here.
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Oct 17, 2018 8:24 am
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Potential union veeps Pat DeLucia, Jennifer Wells-Jackson, Kirsten Hopes-McFadden.
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Tom Burns announces prez run.
At the last minute, another challenger emerged in the heated contest for the presidency of the teachers union, along with a full slate of aspirants to the number-two spot.
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Oct 15, 2018 2:47 pm
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New Haven’s Jim Farnam pitches Hayes to Meriden resident and former New Haven teacher Lois Strayhorn and daughter Shawna.
Hilltop brigadiers Penelope Bellamy (third from right) and Farnam (center) prepare canvass.
With New Haven’s seat considered safe, a traveling “brigade” of local Democratic campaign volunteers has regrouped for the first time in four years to help a political newcomer one district over win a pathbreaking bid for U.S. Congress.
