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Bassani pushes Perez; Winfield backs Ellison.
Looking to influence the future course of their party, New Haven’s Democratic Town Committee plans to endorse one of the leading candidates for national chairman in a battle that has revived the conflicting visions of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.
by | Nov 17, 2016 3:57 pm | Comments (1)
We can now close the books on the 2016 election — and find out how many votes each candidate in each election got in each ward of New Haven.
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A week after the Nov. 8 general election, New Haven filed official returns Tuesday with the Office of the Secretary of the State.
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For the first time in recent memory — if not hundreds of years — New Haven’s city clerk still did not have a sheet of final ward-by-ward results in hand to certify and put in the public record on the Friday after a general election.
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by | Nov 10, 2016 2:36 pm | Comments (12)
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After enduring a Trumpian-inspired assault of “kike” and “fag” tweets, Newsweek senior writer Kurt Eichenwald might have reason to disparage die-hard followers of America’s next president.
Instead, he urged a blue (in two senses of the word) New Haven audience gathered for a post-election reckoning to move beyond dismissive stereotypes.
by | Nov 10, 2016 9:20 am | Comments (7)
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A full 24 hours after the polls had closed and most of America had long reported official voting statistics, New Haven figured out how many of its citizens voted for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Short answer: A lot of them did.
Continue reading ‘It’s Official: Clinton Captured 86% Of City Vote’
by | Nov 9, 2016 3:07 pm | Comments (29)
Lemar: “We failed the voters of this city.”
(Updated 10:10 p.m.) As of 2 p.m. Wednesday, New Haven still did not know the final results of Tuesday’s elections — because the lead registrar of voters hadn’t finished counting them and said she didn’t know when she would.
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They spoke. Here’s what they said.
by | Nov 9, 2016 12:13 am | Comments (2)
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DeLauro: A chance to turn the page?
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro of New Haven is on her way back to Congress for a 14th term.
Continue reading ‘As The World Outside Suddenly Changed, DeLauro Crowd Partied’
by | Nov 8, 2016 11:37 pm | Comments (10)
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The crowd outside the aldermanic chambers.
After waiting for two hours in City Hall to register and vote in Tuesday’s election, Katherine Ayers made it to the front of the line at 8 p.m. — just as the operation shut down.
by | Nov 8, 2016 11:26 pm | Comments (1)
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Elliott outside the polls.
Bernie Sanders was no longer in the running in the presidential election Tuesday, but some local activists inspired by his campaign regrouped to win a state representative seat.
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Fuentes delivers needed ballots at Wilbur Cross.
A New Haven cop waded into an East Rock polling spot Tuesday afternoon to the sound of applause — because he had boxes of ballots with him so that waiting citizens could finally vote.
by | Nov 8, 2016 8:28 am | Comments (0)
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“There’s a million dollar man/ with a dime store sun tan/ beggin’ me to sign away my will,” sings The Proud Flesh frontman Patrick Dalton in the first seconds of “Fanfare for the Pathetic Loser,” a slight edge to his voice stretching over a jaunty guitar. “He’s droppin’ 50 dollar words/ off at the local blood bank/ written on a seven dollar bill.”
Continue reading ‘Proud Flesh Sings Away Election-Day Jitters’
by | Nov 7, 2016 9:59 pm | Comments (5)
Polls open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday for the election not just for president of the United States, but for U.S. representative, state representative and state senator.
by | Nov 7, 2016 3:21 pm | Comments (6)
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Bonadies hits voters’ doors.
When candidates in the only competitive local race knocked on doors this weekend, they heard about more than just local worries.
by | Nov 4, 2016 4:59 pm | Comments (17)
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The EDR fiasco, 2014.
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Registrar Evans: Another botched election?
The Secretary of the State’s office rushed down to New Haven to try to prevent a repeat Election Day disaster involving last-minute registration.
by | Nov 4, 2016 8:14 am | Comments (0)
The City Clerk’s Office will open extra hours to help you do that: Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Monday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
by | Nov 2, 2016 8:14 am | Comments (8)
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Isabel Faustino votes in East Rock School’s mock election.
Jefrey Lopez, whose family hails from Mexico, decided he might vote for Donald Trump because it might result in a free trip back home.
Then he thought better of it.
by | Oct 21, 2016 2:31 pm | Comments (11)
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Secretary of the State Denise Merrill reminds people that they can register to vote from their phone.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump wasn’t at City Hall Friday, but the ghost of his words — about rigged elections and possibly refusing to accept the results if he doesn’t win the “rigged” Nov. 8 election — haunted the place.
Continue reading ‘Officials Blast ‘Rigged Election’ Rhetoric’
by | Oct 10, 2016 12:10 pm | Comments (0)
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New Haven’s Oliphant and Colter at Dresher Clinton HQ.
Willow Grove, Penn. — Standing outside of an ACME supermarket on a cloudy Sunday afternoon, Carter Colter asked a question that he had been repeating to incoming and outgoing shoppers for the past three hours.
“Excuse me, are you registered to vote?”
by | Sep 29, 2016 8:02 am | Comments (12)
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Wharton, Kasich.
John Kasich may have long dropped out of the presidential race, but he will apparently receive at least one vote from New Haven — from New Haven’s leading Republican.
by | Sep 27, 2016 2:20 pm | Comments (1)
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Clinton supporters watching debate at Cask Republic.
“Shut up,” someone at the front of the room shouted with exasperation as Donald Trump defended his self-proclaimed (and thoroughly fictional) early opposition to the Iraq War.
“No, keep talking,” the person sitting next to him responded with a smile. “This is good for us to hear!”
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Bonadies, Losty.
Marjorie Bonadies prefers you don’t ask her about Donald Trump. She’d rather talk about how her experience as a nurse prepared her to tackle government.
by | Sep 6, 2016 8:18 am | Comments (12)
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State Rep. Walker.
Toni Walker has avoided using the first-person singular in public since she lost over $100 in one year for resorting to it dozens of times. But she has to figure out some way to call attention to herself if she wants to succeed in her quest to ascend to the state House of Representatives’ second-highest post.
by | Sep 2, 2016 1:08 pm | Comments (21)
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Cadena: Look out, Rosa?
Do you have a gun here in the studio today?
No. I left my gun at home.
What if the Democrats come in and take you out?
I use my hands. I’m a Marine.
Angel Cadena, New Haven U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro’s Republican rival in this fall’s Congressional election, developed an appreciation for the Second Amendment as a kid growing up on Chicago’s South Side, where he watched a gang member’s bullet strike his father.