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Joshua Van Hoesen on WNHH FM.
Joshua Van Hoesen is determined to give Upper Westville voters a choice — about who represents them, and about how their city will stay solvent in the future.
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Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers.
Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers has decided to seek a sixth two-year term representing the West River neighborhood.
by | Mar 15, 2021 5:48 pm | Comments (17)
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GOP chief Carlson: “Bizarre.”
The Elicker administration advised election officials to create a new barrier to people seeking voter information — advice it now says it will withdraw in the face of complaints.
People working on 2021 municipal campaigns learned of the new barrier in recent weeks when they asked to see ward voter registration lists.
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All in: DuBois-Walton backers Tamiko Jackson-McArthur a member of the Board of Ed; street outreach workers Len Jahad and William “Juneboy” Outlaw, and activist Germano Kimbro at Monday’s exploratory committee launch.
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DuBois-Walton with ConnCORP’s Erik Clemons, who introduced her at Monday’s event.
With the city’s most dramatically transformed neighborhood landscape as a backdrop, Karen DuBois-Walton launched her quest for the mayor’s office by challenging New Haveners to dream “big ideas” and take “bold action.”
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Karen DuBois-Walton: “New Haven knows how to come together and solve big problems in creative ways.”
Promising to rally New Haveners to tackle big challenges with “equity,” Karen DuBois-Walton has decided to explore a challenge to incumbent first-term Mayor Justin Elicker in a Democratic primary.
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Shafiq Abdussabur.
A diverse cast of neighbors from one of New Haven’s most diverse neighborhoods gathered virtually Monday to help formally launch an alder candidacy.
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Shafiq Abdussabur, visiting voters Tuesday on Moreland Road.
One of the lawn signs Abdussabur has helped distribute in Beaver Hills. This one was on Ellsworth Ave.
Shafiq Abdussabur, an outspoken advocate for community policing during his two decades as a New Haven cop, has launched an aldermanic campaign centered around public safety and community cohesion in a crime-rattled neighborhood.
by | Jan 21, 2021 2:54 pm | Comments (49)
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Elicker at Thursday’s reelection announcement.
With his wife Natalie standing beside him — and no one else — Mayor Justin Elicker Thursday announced he has filed papers to seek a second two-year term, citing “so much work” he still wants to tackle on the pandemic, schools, housing, and town-gown relations.
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Murphy: “It’s incredibly disturbing and chilling.”
First Ukraine. Now Georgia.
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy made that connection during a stop in New Haven Monday, as he called out President Donald Trump for repeating a form of illegal election-related bullying that got him impeached, this time much closer to home.
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Balletto makes Connecticut’s Biden-Harris votes official.
Viewers nationwide didn’t see Nick Balletto lucky red-and-white-blue socks, but it did watch him officially include Connecticut voters’ voice Monday to the decision of who should serve as the next U.S. president and vice-president.
Continue reading ‘Balletto Declares State’s Biden-Harris Votes’
by | Nov 10, 2020 5:21 pm | Comments (0)
Westvilleans and East Rockers had the busiest voting precincts for the Nov. 3 election, in which over 42,000 New Haveners cast ballots — and approved a peace referendum question by almost a 5 – 1 margin.
by | Nov 7, 2020 7:26 pm | Comments (16)
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Foster Street neighbors respond to the election news …
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… as did Angela Clinton, Kidan Kashuan, and Tagan Engel on Central Avenue.
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There was joy in Goatville — the once-“mighty” Donald had struck out.
by | Nov 5, 2020 6:26 pm | Comments (0)
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UNITE HERE Secretary-Treasurer Gwen Mills, running New Haven aldermanic campaigns in 2011.
We did the work. Now we need a say.
A half-dozen UNITE HERE leaders — including a New Haven native who is the international union’s secretary-treasurer — delivered that message Thursday about how organized labor’s get-out-the-vote efforts for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris should translate into “the most pro-union presidency” this country has seen in generations.
Continue reading ‘Union Leaders Predict Biden Win, Tout Swing-State GOTV’
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Cabrera: 2nd time the charm.
The region’s hardest-fought local race came to an end Thursday morning, as a Republican incumbent conceded to a challenger whose victory gives the Democrats a veto-proof State Senate majority.
Continue reading ‘Logan Concedes To Cabrera In Rematch; Democrats Claim Local, Statewide Prize’
by | Nov 4, 2020 6:27 pm | Comments (1)
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Smart: Has half a crew left.
(Updated) The secretary of the state is sending people to help train New Haveners to plow through a data backlog involving absentee ballots after a Covid-19 case send 12 city workers into quarantine.
Continue reading ‘Clerk Office Worker Tests Positive For Covid’
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Rally speakers (clockwise from top left) Ala Ochumare, Rick Melita, Abdul Osmanu, Gary Winfield.
Activists and Democratic politicians rallied on the Green Wednesday afternoon as part of a national campaign to “count every vote” — and to prevent President Donald Trump from seizing reelection before all mail-in ballots in battleground states are tallied.
by | Nov 4, 2020 1:32 am | Comments (1)
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George Logan, Jorge Cabrera.
Jorge Cabrera appeared to lead his race at the end of Tuesday night if, as expected, thousands of uncounted absentee ballots from Hamden fall heavily in his favor.
Continue reading ‘Cabrera-Logan Race Will Come Down To Absentee Ballots; Elliott, D’Agostino Ahead’
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DeLauro at victory presser: Next stop, Appropriations.
(Updated with Streicker comment) U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro claimed victory in her quest for a 16th two-year term representing New Haven — and declared herself a frontrunner to become a powerful committee chair in D.C.
Continue reading ‘DeLauro Claims Victory, Eyes Chairmanship’
by | Nov 3, 2020 9:00 pm | Comments (1)
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Harriet Welfare is ready for Ward 25 voters.
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Gabriell Matos: Young person’s turn to step up.
Twenty-year-old Gabriell Matos, dressed in full PPE gear, was stationed outside Bishop Woods School Tuesday morning. He held the door open to voters and pumped out hand sanitizer to all.
by | Nov 3, 2020 6:37 pm | Comments (4)
Bartlett, cops outside polling station.
State Senate candidate Jason Bartlett encountered police who tried to shoo him away from voters — and stood his ground.
by | Nov 3, 2020 6:36 pm | Comments (2)
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Charlie Delgado (right).
Local labor organizer Charlie Delgado returned to an apartment complex in “the slums of Miami” looking for a voter named Robert.
He had an important message to deliver: Robert’s fines related to a past felony conviction had been paid off, and, unbeknownst to him, Robert could vote in this year’s election.
Continue reading ‘Local Labor Organizers Make Swing State Push’
by | Nov 3, 2020 5:31 pm | Comments (0)
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Robyn Porter and Rahassan Langley mix it up old-school at the polls.
Outside a Newhallville polling place Tuesday, R&B singer Rashaan Langley invited State Rep. Robyn Porter to join him on the chorus of Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On.”
First, Porter dropped some history on him.
Continue reading ‘“Party At The Polls” Reveals The Poetry Of Politics’
by | Nov 3, 2020 4:35 pm | Comments (0)
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Pedersen reads Ginsberg at Wilbur Cross.
Allen Ginsberg and Jimi Hendrix turned up at the polls Tuesday —in the form of two local 14-year-old musicians, who channeled their midcentury American counterculture icons to temporarily transform the Wilbur Cross High School parking lot into a sort of Election Day Gaslight Cafe.
by | Nov 3, 2020 4:20 pm | Comments (0)
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Copes, post-vote at City Hall.
No pandemonium this time, at least at mid-day: Newly registered voters wait to cast their ballots in the Aldermanic Chambers.
Haley Copes hustled to cast a ballot after all this year, and not repeat her 2016 mistake. Fortunately for her, City Hall was ready this time for last-minute “Election Day” voters.
Continue reading ‘EDR Hums Along This Time — So Haley Copes Gets To Vote’
by | Nov 3, 2020 2:52 pm | Comments (1)
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Robinson: With Alder Furlow’s help, in time for class, as well.
Naszier Robinson arrived at City Hall at 6 a.m. to register to vote for the first time ever — and wound up on an hours-long journey back and forth between downtown and his Westville neighborhood in order to cast his ballot.
Continue reading ‘Why Naszier Robinson Traveled Miles, Waited Hours To Vote’