by | Oct 15, 2018 7:42 am | Comments (24)
Crowd at Saturday afternoon’s rally.
Lamont: “New Haven, you make the difference.”
Connecticut Democrats descended on Sherman Avenue to remind local politicos that the fate of November’s general election — and whether or not the state turns red — may rest on whether they can turn out the New Haven vote.
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by | Oct 8, 2018 2:56 pm | Comments (6)
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Salim Bendacha (above left) questions candidate Bysiewicz (below).
The founder of a New Haven tech start-up had one word of advice for Susan Bysiewicz: blockchain.
Continue reading ‘Techie Pitches Bysiewicz On Next Big Thing’
by | Oct 5, 2018 2:20 pm | Comments (33)
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State Rep. Kim Rose reveals childhood encounter with sexual predator.
As senators in D.C. moved toward confirming Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice, dozens of female elected officials and activists took to the steps of New Haven’s federal courthouse vowing to convert their anger into votes in Connecticut’s November elections.
by | Sep 21, 2018 8:09 am | Comments (3)
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Democratic LG candidate Susan Bysiewicz with Grand Ave. bakery owner Yolanda Guzman on Thursday.
Hill Alder and Lamont staffer Dave Reyes (center): Muzzled by campaign.
Yolanda Guzman made sure that Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Susan Bysiewicz didn’t leave her Grand Avenue bakery without taking a slice of tres leches cake.
In fact, Guzman packed eight slices of the three-milk Mexican dessert bread for the Democratic nominee: one slice for Bysiewicz, and one for each of the seven other local businesspeople, politicos, and campaign supporters who gave the former secretary of the state a walking tour of five different Fair Haven small businesses on Thursday afternoon.
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by | Sep 18, 2018 12:00 am | Comments (41)
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Teamsters, Republicans taunt each other pre-debate outside Shubert.
Lamont arrives to debate cheered by crowd. (Stefanowski slipped quietly through side.)
Stefanowski in the spin room.
(Analysis) The Shubert theater staged a revival Monday night of the historic 1960 Kennedy-Nixon campaign debate. Bob Stefanowski played the role of John F. Kennedy.
by | Sep 17, 2018 11:49 pm | Comments (2)
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As Democrat Ned Lamont and Republican Bob Stefanowski sparred on on the stage of the Shubert Theater Monday night, unaffiliated gubernatorial candidate Oz Griebel joined the debate two blocks away.
“If we don’t like the question,” he announced, “we’ll just answer something else.”
by | Sep 14, 2018 1:36 pm | Comments (3)
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U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy at Friday’s healthcare press conference.
People’s healthcare is on the ballot this November. And the vote is between broader and more affordable access on the one hand, and limited coverage and insurance company profits on the other.
That’s the way that Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ned Lamont and U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy framed this year’s state and federal elections during a Friday morning healthcare-related press conference held in the city health department’s ninth floor public health clinic at 54 Meadow St.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Stefanowski responded on Friday afternoon by calling Lamont “desperate” and his “false accusations” and not “bound by facts or concerned with the truth.”
Continue reading ‘Lamont, Murphy Denounce Healthcare “Sabotage”’
by | Sep 4, 2018 2:40 pm | Comments (10)
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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ned Lamont at Monday presser.
Ned Lamont said he has a plan that will responsibly and equitably fund education in this state.
That plan hinges on not doing what his Republican opponent is proposing, he said, and preserving the income tax.
Continue reading ‘Lamont Gives “SteFanowski” An “F” On Education’
by | Sep 3, 2018 10:06 am | Comments (2)
(Opinion)—A day off to celebrate work might seem strange, but actually Labor Day is like most all-American holidays — a commemoration born of a struggle for a better life.
by | Aug 15, 2018 1:38 pm | Comments (7)
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Lamont at Wednesday’s presser.
President Donald Trump endorsed Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Stefanowski for governor Wednesday, leading Democratic contender Ned Lamont to call the two “joined at the hip.”
by | Aug 14, 2018 11:15 pm | Comments (5)
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Tim Herbst: No more Malloy agenda.
Tim Herbst was still taking no prisoners Tuesday night, even though he’s no longer running for governor.
by | Aug 14, 2018 10:07 pm | Comments (27)
Lamont onstage at the College Street Music Hall.
Accepting his party’s gubernatorial nomination with a crushing victory over a felonious opponent, Ned Lamont Tuesday night unveiled his first plan for getting the state’s economy back on track.
In an acceptance speech from the stage of New Haven’s College Street Music Hall, Lamont offered leaders of Connecticut’s cities and towns a deal to help stabilize both their own and the state’s finances: regionalization in return for support on municipal aid and local property taxes.
by | Aug 14, 2018 9:08 pm | Comments (6)
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Peter Blasini agrees to vote for Lamont after Jess Corbett’s pitch.
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Eva Bermudez Zimmerman hugs a supporter outside the polls.
Ned Lamont won the vote Tuesday — but he didn’t win New Haven’s hearts.
That could be a problem come November.
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Outside the Edgewood School polling station Tuesday.
As Republicans and Democrats choose candidates for statewide offices in nine different primaries Tuesday, central party machines are having less influence than ever on who ends up the ballot.
by | Aug 13, 2018 3:30 pm | Comments (18)
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Some of the candidates running hard, clockwise from top left: Eva Bermudez-Zimmerman, David Stemerman, Tim Herbst, Susan Bysiewicz, Joe Ganim, Ned Lamont.
New Haven voters get their first of two chances Tuesday to weigh in on who should assume four open top statewide elected jobs, with a posse of self-funding 1 percenters leading the pack.
by | Aug 13, 2018 8:01 am | Comments (25)
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Varick Pastor Kelcy Steele at Sabbath services Sunday.
With sweat pouring down his face and the jubilant sound of drums, keyboards, and a hundred pairs of clapping hands before him, Pastor Kelcy Steele revved up one of New Haven’s most influential African-American congregations to make their presence known at the polls this Tuesday.
by | Aug 12, 2018 12:11 pm | Comments (13)
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Local 34 prez Laurie Kennington pumps Lamont at Saturday’s rally.
Ned Lamont lashed out at his opponent at a final get-out-the-vote rally in New Haven — not the opponent he needs to beat in Tuesday’s Democratic primary, but the one he expects to face in November.
by | Aug 12, 2018 11:52 am | Comments (3)
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Eva Bermudez Zimmerman takes the stage on Saturday night.
Complaining can’t change the high cost of housing, gas, or milk.
But voting can.
Continue reading ‘Bermudez Zimmerman To Puertorriqueños: Don’t Complain. Vote!’
by | Aug 10, 2018 1:47 pm | Comments (2)
Nicole Karides-Ditria and Themis Klarides at the state Capitol.
“Are they going to call the bill today?” Themis Klarides’s kid sister Nicole Klarides-Ditria asked.
And asked. And asked.
Nicole walked up from the back row to ask Themis. She texted her to ask her. Every day.
by | Aug 9, 2018 4:25 pm | Comments (18)
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Roland Lemar pitches supporters over pizza. To his right: campaign Treasurer Hacibey Catalbasoglu, Manager Eli Sabin, state treasurer candidate Shawn Wooden.
We need to force suburbs to house more of the poor — and also enlist them in a joint effort to cut our municipal costs.
New Haven State Rep. Roland Lemar delivered that message about the current challenges facing Connecticut’s urban-suburban relationship during a reelection fundraiser and meet-and-greet.
by | Aug 8, 2018 9:40 pm | Comments (32)
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Ned Lamont (center) and Shawn Wooden (right) with labor organizer Scott Marks on Wednesday night.
Less than a week before statewide Democratic primaries, two candidates earned New Haven’s most important on-the-ground endorsement: from Yale’s UNITE HERE unions
by | Aug 8, 2018 12:11 pm | Comments (5)
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The candidate, right, with Casa Otonal resident, Berenid Rivera.
“Ooh,” Eva Bermudez Zimmerman cooed along with little kids who were doting over three goats, several rabbits, a goose, and a brood of young, still furry chicks.
Then she said it is so sad to have separated the chicks from their mom. Her parents, who had a farm in Puerto Rico, taught her that when humans touch the chicks, the mother no longer recognizes them in the same way.
Continue reading ‘Bermudez Zimmerman Talks Health, Seeks Senior Votes (& Goats)’
by | Aug 8, 2018 8:25 am | Comments (16)
Pre-debate scene outside Bethel AME on Tuesday.
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Tong (at left, with Mattei and Doyle) recants pot vote.
A passionate debate for the support of the Democratic Party base got into the weeds Tuesday night — or, more specifically, into weed.
by | Aug 3, 2018 1:16 pm | Comments (6)
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Ned Lamont gets DeLauro’s endorsement: “I may be a guy. But I’m a feminist.”
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ned Lamont reeled in another endorsement from a high-profile Connecticut Democrat during a roundtable conversation in downtown New Haven about women’s rights at the local, state and national levels.
Continue reading ‘DeLauro Endorses Lamont At Women’s Roundtable’