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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.
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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.
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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’
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Kaley Pillinger, one of the confused students, receives her sticker after finally arriving at the right location.
Confusion over even-year polling locations sent some Yalies to the wrong voting stations Tuesday.
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Mayor Elicker, with daughter April, casting his vote at Wilbur Cross.
Mayor Justin Elicker voted in person, including for the Democrat who currently helms the city’s voting process, as he and his family turned out to Wilbur Cross High School Election Day morning.
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Early-morning voting line at Bella Vista.
Voters lined up — at safe social distances — before polls opened at 6 a.m. Tuesday, as this video from Davis Street School Ward 26 precinct shows. (Thanks to Hilary Grant for sharing it. “I don’t think we’ve ever seen this before,” she said)
Everyone’s asked to wear a a mask inside to keep both voters and poll workers safe.
And if you’re not sure your absentee ballot has been counted, and wonder whether you should show up in person to vote again … read on for advice.
Continue reading ‘Lines Form Early; Absentee Ballot Confusion’
by | Nov 2, 2020 5:54 pm | Comments (8)
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U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, with Hamden’s delegation, plus one hopeful, one New Haven senator, and Lieut. Gov. Bysiewicz.
In the last hours before polls open across the state, Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz stood in a whipping wind next to a ballot drop box in Hamden to make what has crystallized as Connecticut Democrats’ main pitch just before Tuesday’s election: Vote Democrat if you like your healthcare.
by | Nov 2, 2020 11:26 am | Comments (13)
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Brother Born at giveaway: “Conservatism is the new rock and roll.”
Congressional candidate Margaret Streicker arrived in Newhallville with 5,000 child-sized masks and a “Blue Lives Matter” message — the latter of which sparked lively discussion.
Continue reading ‘Streicker Brings Newhallville Masks, Debate’
by | Nov 2, 2020 10:48 am | Comments (4)
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Valencia Goodridge braves the rain.
Over 1,000 voters showed up at the Hall of Records this weekend to receive and cast absentee ballots — with in-person assistance.
Continue reading ‘City Clerk Helps Over 1,000 Cast Last-Minute Absentee Ballots’
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Adrian Huq making the point, on the Green.
My name is Adrian Huq, and I am an 18 year-old organizer for the New Haven Climate Movement. When the New Haven Peace Commission reached out to our organization on if we would endorse their referendum on the New Haven ballot — “Shall Congress prepare for health and climate crises by transferring funds from the military budget to cities for human needs, jobs, and an environmentally sustainable economy?” — I knew this was something we needed to support from a moral and climate-focused perspective.