by | Aug 13, 2012 8:38 am | Comments (5)
Sid Silverman and Harold Levitz accepted the candidate’s flyer.
Chris Murphy got Cyvia Scharmett an absentee ballot after he visited her elderly complex. Scharmett said she will fill out the ballot — by checking off the name of Murphy’s opponent, Susan Bysiewicz, who swung by the same complex Sunday.
by | Aug 12, 2012 2:43 pm | Comments (15)
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City Hall staffer Elyse Lyons on her “lunch break” Friday.
Connecticut may be focused on this Tuesday’s primaries and the 2012 Senate and presidential elections. That hasn’t stopped Mayor John DeStefano from hitting the hustings too — for his own 2013 reelection campaign, which he and a City Hall staffer were caught bringing to the Bella Vista senior housing complex.
by | Aug 9, 2012 4:16 pm | Comments (4)
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GOP Registrar Rae Tramantano prepares for Tuesday’s primary.
Republicans were told to vote in the Democratic primary. Some Democrats were told to report to new voting districts, others to old ones.
Continue reading ‘Postcards Give Some Voters Wrong Directions’
by | Jul 31, 2012 3:43 pm | Comments (9)
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Benjamin Huyssen, 3, gave two Congressmen a snack.
Congressman Chris Murphy begged a kid for a goldfish cracker, then offered him a return favor — doubling the childcare tax break for families like his.
by | Jul 25, 2012 4:25 pm | Comments (10)
Will Moore didn’t plan to order soda with his lunch Wednesday. But he agreed with a Congressional candidate up the block that taxing customers who do would pose a threat to “freedom.”
by | Jul 18, 2012 7:56 pm | Comments (5)
There was more than a nickel of difference in a debate between the two Republicans running for Connecticut’s open U.S. Senate seat. It was more like $60 million.
Continue reading ‘Debate Taunts: “Career Politician,” Election-Buyer’
by | Jul 17, 2012 4:40 pm | Comments (2)
The first stop on the campaign trail for U.S. Senate candidate Chris Murphy Tuesday brought him to New Haven’s Hubinger Street, where he helped hoist a paralyzed man out of bed. To make a point about jobs.
by | Jul 16, 2012 2:57 pm | Comments (8)
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Holder-Winfield: Freed up to help Murphy, Esposito.
None of New Haven’s state legislators needs to “run” for re-election this year — because no one has emerged to challenge them.
by | Jul 9, 2012 3:03 pm | Comments (6)
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Kleppner, at right, talks up voting in Fair Haven.
The Greens have nominated a “democracy” professional to launch a campaign that will produce two winners. Or three.
by | Jul 2, 2012 10:12 pm | Comments (2)
New Haven sent Dannel Malloy to the governor’s mansion. Can it catapult Chris Murphy to the U.S. Senate?
by | May 21, 2012 11:38 am | Comments (11)
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A moderate hope flickered in Hartford. New Haven’s surviving band of Republicans headed north to catch it.
Continue reading ‘Richter, Ricci Ride To Republicans’ Rescue’
by | May 14, 2012 4:11 pm | Comments (0)
“I can’t conceal the fact,” Joe Lieberman said, “that I have this affection and respect” for Chris Shays.
by | May 7, 2012 8:03 am | Comments (7)
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Whitnum brandishes “evidence” of AIPAC’s secret grip on U.S.
Lee Whitnum was asked about the economic hardships of Latinos in the U.S. Her answer: AIPAC is evil.
Susan Bysiewicz was asked about high unemployment among Connecticut’s Latinos. Her answer: Wall Street is too powerful.
So went the latest debate among Democrats running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Joe Lieberman: They brought talking points with them. And they stuck to their talking points — no matter what the question.
by | Apr 25, 2012 8:10 am | Comments (4)
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Moderators take a final look at the citywide vote tally.
Mitt Romney swept New Haven’s Republican presidential primary — to the extent that there was a Republican presidential primary.
by | Apr 24, 2012 1:00 pm | Comments (1)
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Poll worker Rogers gets ready — just in case a voter arrives.
As Mitt Romney’s and Newt Gingrich’s fates hung in the wind, eight wild turkeys marched up to a polling station in West Rock. Nary a human was in sight.
by | Mar 20, 2012 7:52 am | Comments (12)
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Ward 29 recount: New complaints cast doubt on crucial absentees.
When college sophomore Shavalsia Sabb cast her first-ever ballot, she had no idea she would land in the middle of New Haven’s latest voting controversy.
Continue reading ‘Voters Charge Absentee Fraud, Intimidation’
by | Mar 19, 2012 8:10 am | Comments (1)
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Response’s Lavoie talks with U.S. Reps. Murphy & Richmond.
Looking to learn how to cultivate small businesses statewide, U.S. Senate candidate Chris Murphy stepped into a New Haven company that’s a greenhouse of budding new ventures and two other companies that keep adding workers — with no government help.
Continue reading ‘Murphy Sees. Murphy Clicks. Need Murphy Fix?’
by | Mar 16, 2012 2:07 pm | Comments (15)
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Ferrucci & Tramantano: Consolidate precincts.
Under state law, New Haven must spend over $24,000 for next month’s Republican presidential primary to hire 128 people to work for 16 hours at 32 polling places — including places where only one lonely Republican has cast a ballot in the past.
by | Mar 15, 2012 7:43 am | Comments (5)
As New Haven Democrats elected her their first female African-American chairwoman, Jackie James responded to accusations of a power grab by promising to run the organization from the bottom up rather than from City Hall.
by | Mar 8, 2012 5:53 pm | Comments (1)
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Moderators count absentee ballot envelopes as candidates and supporters observe.
After more than two hours of painstaking ballot examination, a vote recount turned up new numbers for candidates who ran in a local election this week.
by | Mar 8, 2012 12:57 pm | Comments (0)
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Labor victories? Or anti-central “control” victories?
by | Mar 7, 2012 8:25 am | Comments (2)
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Lauren Miller and Cristina Cruz-Uribe waiting for the numbers to come in with supporter Kathleen Maloney.
The city’s busiest polling place Tuesday was also the scene of a debate over labor’s role in the changing course of city politics.
by | Mar 6, 2012 11:09 pm | Comments (12)
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Teen power: Latoya Agnew (right), 19, won in Newhallivlle along with Barbara Vereen (left).
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Celebrating in Dwight: Winners Arnott (center) & Kinity (right) with Alderman Frank Douglass.
Union-backed candidates swept elections citywide Tuesday for seats on the Democratic Town Committee, paving the way for a union-backed majority to run not just New Haven’s legislature but the machinery of its only real political party.
by | Mar 5, 2012 3:00 pm | Comments (3)
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A Kenyan refugee, a theater critic, and a rapper-turned-street outreach worker hit the Dwight neighborhood seeking votes for the first time as an influx of new blood continues to reinvigorate the Democratic Party.
by | Feb 19, 2012 8:36 pm | Comments (0)
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Reader RobN sent in this photo Sunday night.