Another GOP Candidate Name-Checks Harp
by | Jun 27, 2018 8:02 am | Comments (10)
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Stemerman at Shubert debate.
Toni Harp may not be running for governor, but don’t tell that to the Republicans who are.
Campaign 2018
Garlinghouse Falls Short On Primary, Eyes Independent Run
by | Jun 22, 2018 3:06 pm | Comments (0)
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Paul Garlinghouse submitting petitions last week at 200 Orange St.
A civil rights lawyer making his first run for office fell 22 signatures short of landing a spot on the Aug. 14 Democratic primary ballot.
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AG Hopeful Backs Trump On Immigration
by | Jun 20, 2018 8:16 am | Comments (28)
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Hatfield at WNHH FM: Will she be 1st woman to win AG race?
Don’t look for Sue Hatfield to sign onto letters attacking Donald Trump if she becomes Connecticut’s next attorney general, even when some of her fellow Republicans criticize him for separating parents and children at the border.
Mattei Gets An Earful In Newhallville
by | Jun 18, 2018 7:58 am | Comments (6)
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The candidate with Basset Street resident Lossie Gorham.
Chris Mattei listened for nearly ten straight minutes. He leaned in, kept eye contact. But he didn’t say a word.
His interlocutor was Shelton Avenue resident Darlene Grant, who graphically described a bleak situation: She has a chronically derelict landlord, with trash overflowing in the back yard, mice running throughout the house. and a little child who’s been tested for lead and has alarmingly elevated levels.
When the exterminators do come, they stay for five minutes, and then are gone; yet the mice remain. She desperately wants to move out but with her federal Section 8 rent voucher she doesn’t know where to go, or to whom to turn for help.
Finally Mattei said that’s why he’s running for Connecticut attorney general: to serve as her voice.
Green Candidate Calls For City Cop Probe
by | Jun 14, 2018 6:49 pm | Comments (4)
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Jerome Richardson’s arrest on the Green.
Two incidents reported over the past week in New Haven have prompted a candidate for Connecticut attorney general to call for an investigation into racial profiling.
Lamont Struggles To Connect
by | Jun 14, 2018 6:28 pm | Comments (21)
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Ned Lamont on the 212 bus.
Invoking Kim Jong-un at Orlando’s Barbershop.
As the 212 bus left Downtown for Grand Avenue, Skyler Shepard told Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Ned Lamont about his recent struggles with homelessness.
Ganim Submits 32,000 Signatures
by | Jun 13, 2018 7:55 am | Comments (5)
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Troy Jackson, New Haven office coordinator for Joe Ganim, drops off petitions Tuesday at the Registrar of Voters Office at 200 Orange St.
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Joe Ganim with his box of petitions at WNHH FM.
Joe Ganim couldn’t convince 282 delegates at a Democratic Party convention to support him for governor. So he went out and got 32,000 Democratic voters to sign petitions.
In Sanctuary City, GOP Gubernatorial Candidates Bash Sanctuary Cities
by | Jun 11, 2018 10:47 pm | Comments (5)
Campaigns outside the Shubert before the debate.
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2 Tacks: Herbst, Boughton in New Haven Monday night.
Four leading Republican candidates for governor debated each other in Connecticut’s best-known sanctuary city — and to a man condemned sanctuary cities.
But there was at least one noticeable difference between the way two of them did that.
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The Real Debate Begins
by | Jun 11, 2018 12:30 pm | Comments (2)
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J.R. Romano and Roland Lemar in the WNHH studio.
Want to watch a real debate between a Republican and a Democrat about Connecticut’s future?
Comptroller Candidate: Tax Yale, Y-NHH
by | Jun 11, 2018 8:26 am | Comments (24)
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2015 rally challenges how Yale spends endowment returns.
Mark Greenberg has an idea for how to pump more tax money into cities while spending less, not more, state money: Tax big universities and hospitals.
Eva Fever Hits New Haven
by | Jun 7, 2018 5:16 pm | Comments (10)
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Eva Bermudez Zimmerman at fundraiser.
Top New Haven Democrats bucked their party Wednesday night to line up behind an insurgent candidate for the state’s number-two elected job.
Arts Community To Pols: Don’t Forget About Us
by | Jun 4, 2018 1:35 pm | Comments (1)
They all vote. (Or 97 percent of them, at least.) Then elected officials slash their groups’ public funding.
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Ganim Petition Train Pulls Into Bella Vista
by | May 28, 2018 9:19 am | Comments (8)
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Joe Ganim with Bella Vista residents Anita Walters (left) and BJ.
Joe Ganim didn’t convince Anita Walters that he learned any lessons from his time behind bars. But he swayed her with the first argument he needed to press — that state Democrats will only benefit by having more candidates to pick between on the gubernatorial primary ballot this summer.
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Organizer Qualifies For Lt. Gov. Primary
by | May 19, 2018 6:01 pm | Comments (33)
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Lt. Gov. Candidate Eva Bermudez Zimmerman works the floor at the state party nominating convention.
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Susan Bysiewicz, shown on convention floor, secured the nomination.
Hartford—A young labor organizer pulled off a surprisingly strong show of support in her bid for lieutenant governor, spurred on in no small part by a New Haven politician’s emotional endorsement of her candidacy.
Lamont Gets Endorsement, Blocks Ganim
by and | May 19, 2018 3:25 pm | Comments (5)
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New Haven DTC Chair Vinnie Mauro and Toni Harp in between the first and second ballots for governor.
HARTFORD —There was little question that Ned Lamont would get the Democratic Party’s endorsement for governor. The real question was could he deny Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim ballot access for a primary.
The answer from state Democrats was yes … for a few weeks.
Winfield Spurs Diversity Debate
by | May 19, 2018 11:18 am | Comments (10)
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State Sen. Gary Winfield at the state Democratic Party convention in Hartford.
Hartford—As state Democrats prepare for a convention day that promises a robust debate about the value and practice of diversity within the party, the most sought-after politician in the room is not even looking to get on the ballot.
Gauntlet Thrown
by | May 18, 2018 4:55 pm | Comments (4)
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Lieutenant Governor Candidate Eva Bermudez Zimmerman.
HARTFORD, CT—Black and brown Democratic delegates gathered before the beginning of this weekend’s state Democratic nominating convention to support a challenger’s campaign, casting the bid as a campaign for youth, diversity, and the working class.
Eva Bermudez Zimmerman pitched her candidacy for lieutenant governor as being the exact opposite of her opponent Susan Bysiewicz, claiming that she is the true representative of youth, diversity, and working class family interests in the state Democratic Party.
Trez Hopeful: Pensions Need Lotto Fix
by | May 18, 2018 12:06 pm | Comments (3)
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Arunan Arulampalam.
The state lottery may hold one key to solving the state government’s pension problems.
Winfield Backs Zimmerman
by | May 17, 2018 12:09 pm | Comments (11)
Zimmerman, Winfield.
More trouble appeared on the horizon Thursday morning for the fledgling Lamont-Bysiewicz Democratic gubernatorial ticket, as a prominent African-American state senator from New Haven endorsed a Latina challenger for lieutenant governor.
GOP Hopeful Brings Tax-Cut Message To DISTRICT
by | May 17, 2018 7:52 am | Comments (3)
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David Stemerman in Fair Haven Wednesday.
Republican gubernatorial candidate David Stemerman wants to cut Connecticut’s taxes, improve its school systems, and repair its transportation infrastructure, and he’s looking for inspiration to one of the most liberal states in the union: Massachusetts.
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What’s Wrong With This Picture?
by | May 16, 2018 9:42 pm | Comments (20)
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Bysiewicz and Lamont at Tuesday’s ticket announcement.
Ned Lamont may have bought a little intraparty peace by luring a top opponent onto his gubernatorial campaign ticket — but he also may have sucker punched his urban base.
Looney Endorses Lamont, Cautions On Tweed Expansion
by | May 16, 2018 3:40 pm | Comments (12)
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Martin Looney with Lamont Tuesday.
New Haven State Sen. Martin Looney endorsed Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ned Lamont and his city-centered approach to economic development — but warned against a plan Lamont had supported just a few weeks ago to expand New Haven’s airport.
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Lamont, Bysiewicz Make Ticket Official
by | May 15, 2018 1:19 pm | Comments (16)
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Foes-turned-running mates Lamont, Bysiewicz in New Haven Tuesday.
Rich guys shouldn’t fund their own campaigns for governor?
Susan Bysiewicz was no longer making that case Tuesday, as she publicly signed on as lieutenant governor running-mate with leading Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ned Lamont.
Griebel Organizes A “No Party” Convention
by | May 15, 2018 1:04 pm | Comments (0)
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Oz Griebel.
Another gubernatorial nominating convention takes place Tuesday — this one with a more predictable twist.
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Dems Tap DeLauro For 15th Term
by | May 15, 2018 7:58 am | Comments (8)
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DeLauro accepts nomination Monday night at Career.
DeLauro greets supporters.
In an election year when an unprecedented number of women are running for Congress for the first time, Connecticut Democrats chose to send New Haven U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro back to her seat for a 29th and 30th year.