by | May 20, 2020 6:46 pm | Comments (5)
Citing concerns about the spread of Covid-19, Gov. Ned Lamont issued an executive order Wednesday decreeing that all registered Democrats and Republicans can vote in the Aug. 11 party primaries by mail-in absentee ballot.
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Brenda Harris: Anyone on the line?
Brenda Harris was ready to second Alex Taubes’ bid to challenge State Sen. Marty Looney. Then she went digitally missing for 20 minutes — and returned with a surprise.
by | May 20, 2020 9:35 am | Comments (9)
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Tuesday night’s virtual convention.
While the outcome of Tuesday night’s Democratic 10th State Senate District nominatng convention rocked few political boats, the process of getting there felt like a digital tsunami.
Or a radio scanner from hell. Or an avant-garde experiment in overlapping dialogue.
by | May 20, 2020 9:18 am | Comments (2)
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Justin Farmer and Jorge Cabrera.
For the second time in a row, Jorge Cabrera has secured his party’s endorsement to run for Connecticut’s 17th Senate District seat against incumbent Republican George Logan — and for the second time, he’ll need to win a Democratic Party primary first in order to get there.
Continue reading ‘Dems Endorse Cabrera For Senate; Farmer Qualifies For Ballot’
by | May 18, 2020 9:53 pm | Comments (2)
Logan (left) helps distribute 300 masks at Hamden Rehab and Healthcare.
State Sen. George Logan accepted the Connecticut Republican Party’s endorsement Monday night to continue representing Connecticut’s 17th District with a promise to support businesses and oppose tax increases.
by | May 13, 2020 10:19 am | Comments (2)
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Margaret Streicker accepts the nomination.
Connecticut Republicans Tuesday night endorsed Margaret Streicker as a candidate for Connecticut’s U.S. Third Congressional District seat, heralding her experience as the founder of several real estate businesses.
Continue reading ‘Republicans Endorse Streicker To Challenge DeLauro’
by | May 12, 2020 5:25 pm | Comments (1)
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Attorney Taubes: Guv “trying to keep people” off ballot.
Signing a petition to put a challenger’s name on an election ballot this year just got a whole lot more complicated.
Continue reading ‘Print Out. Sign. Photograph. Mail or Email’
by | May 12, 2020 12:11 pm | Comments (3)
JR Romano Monday on “Dateline New Haven.”
Connecticut’s Republican Party chairman called on the governor to cancel the Aug. 11 presidential primaries and vowed to work hard to unseat incumbent Democrats despite the limitations on campaigning amid a pandemic.
by | May 11, 2020 8:36 pm | Comments (16)
Rosa DeLauro.
New Haven U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro Monday evening accepted her party’s unanimous endorsement for a 16th two-year term with a story about why her late mother once wore red for a year following a pandemic.
Continue reading ‘DeLauro Nominated,“Ready for a Fight” For 16th Term’
by | May 8, 2020 6:07 pm | Comments (4)
A New Haven state legislative candidate has joined a legal effort to allow candidates petitioning for election ballots this year to obtain signatures electronically — and get more time to collect fewer names.
Continue reading ‘Suit Seeks E-Signatures, Lower Threshold For Petitions’
by | May 5, 2020 9:40 am | Comments (10)
Note: Jason Bartlett (pictured) is challenging incumbent State Sen. Gary Winfield for the Democratic nomination this year.
As a former state legislator, it pains me to say this, but Connecticut’s General Assembly during the COVID-19 pandemic has abdicated its responsibilities, and should forego all salaries from the day they shut their doors to the opening of the next session. If you work hard you should get paid, but if you close your doors and decide you are not essential, why should you be paid? Maybe a better course would be to donate your salaries to the front-line workers.
Continue reading ‘Opinion: Legislators Should Get To Work Or Forfeit Pay’
by | May 3, 2020 4:12 pm | Comments (6)
Barred from knocking on doors, Bruce Oren attempts to win over a potential primary voter in his Beaver Hills yard.
Bruce Oren planned to try to petition his way onto a primary ballot this month — until, thanks to Covid-19, he had neither petitions nor any doors he could safely knock on.
Oren and two other New Haveners seeking to mount primary challenges to Democratic incumbents this year are pressing for clarity — and action — from state officials.
Continue reading ‘Pandemic Perplexes Prospective Petitioners’
by | May 1, 2020 2:48 pm | Comments (7)
April Capone on WNHH FM’s “Dateline New Haven.”
April Capone has a story to tell voters. And she has a story to tell her potential future colleagues in the state legislature.
One story is about a hurricane. The other story is about a town that endured a national controversy over violent, racist policing — and emerged stronger.
Continue reading ‘Capone Taps Irene, Policing Experiences For Senate Run’
by | Apr 17, 2020 6:07 pm | Comments (1)
Now it’s Aug. 11.
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Jason Bartlett is not hiding under a rock. Even during the coronavirus crisis.
Continue reading ‘Bartlett Forms Exploratory Committee To Take On Winfield’
by | Mar 17, 2020 5:27 pm | Comments (2)
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Justin Farmer: Officially running. Jorge Cabrera: Done fundraising.
Though both are holed up inside, refraining from the person-to-person interactions that define their political lives, 17th State Senate District candidates Jorge Cabrera and Justin Farmer both announced that they had passed major campaign hurdles.
Continue reading ‘Farmer Launches Candidate Committee; Cabrera Finishes Fundraising’
by | Mar 6, 2020 2:43 pm | Comments (4)
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New Haven donors’ picks, in order: Elizabeth Warren, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Amy Klobuchar, and (in a distant fifth) Joe Biden.
Elizabeth Warren may no longer be running — but she still sits comfortably atop the list of presidential candidates to whom New Haveners have donated over the past year.
Hamden donors, meanwhile, have directed most of their contributions to Warren’s progressive erstwhile rival, Bernie Sanders.
by | Mar 4, 2020 8:52 am | Comments (11)
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Mayor Curt Leng (right) and Elaine Dove, Phil Nista, Megan Goslin, and Patrick Johnson of his opposition slate wait for results.
Updated 3/4 1 p.m. — After a highly contentious, record-breaking primary on Tuesday, Hamden’s Democrats handed the keys to the party’s leadership to the progressive wing of the party in a decisive victory for many of the newer voices in Hamden politics.
by | Mar 4, 2020 8:48 am | Comments (14)
(Update) Two leading Connecticut politicians of yore — former New Haven Mayor Toni Harp and former state Democratic Chairman Ed Marcus — would have co-chaired Mike Bloomberg’s presidential campaign in the state.
If Bloomberg had been continued running for the Democratic nomination.
Continue reading ‘Update: Bloomberg Drops Out After Picking Harp, Marcus As State Co-Chairs’
by | Mar 3, 2020 9:15 pm | Comments (7)
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Major Ruth and Audrey Muriel-Tyson: Ready for Trump.
Incumbents beat challengers across town Tuesday night in Democratic Ward Committee co-chair primaries.
by | Feb 28, 2020 2:53 pm | Comments (2)
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Ward 21 co-chair contestants: Ray Jackson and incumbent Kate Sacks (top) vs. challengers Maverick Jacobs and Troy Streater.
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Ward 20 co-chair contestants: incumbents Oscar Havyarimana and Barbara Vereen (top) vs. challengers Jeanette Sykes and Rhonda Nelson-Sheffield.
The race is on in Newhallville, where eight candidates in four different slates are vying to become the neighborhood’s next hyperlocal Democratic Party leaders.
At stake: concerns ranging from crime to traffic, voter registration to attention from City Hall, and bolstering the Democratic Party’s strength in an all-but-single-party city to reforming party bylaws in the direction of transparency and accountability.
by | Feb 27, 2020 6:11 pm | Comments (6)
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Hamden Mayor Curt Leng.
As Democrats in Hamden prepare for a contentious town committee primary next week, people on both sides of a political divide in the town said the other side has mounted a coordinated campaign for influence.
Their own? Not so much.
Continue reading ‘Coordinated Campaign For Influence? Or Just Concerned Citizens’
by | Feb 24, 2020 1:07 pm | Comments (10)
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Campaign gatherings Saturday for Farmer (left), Cabrera (right).
While Bernie Sanders was pulling off a left-Democratic victory in Nevada, two local candidates with similar roots in progressive politics summoned supporters to separate fundraisers on the same day — for the same seat.
by | Feb 18, 2020 4:15 pm | Comments (1)
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Jorge Cabrera and Justin Farmer; incumbent George Logan.
A few weeks after Democratic challenger Jorge Cabrera announced a rematch with incumbent Republican George Logan for Connecticut’s 17th State Senate District, Hamden Councilman Justin Farmer has added himself to the mix in a bid to bring younger voices into the fold of Connecticut politics.That means the district with last cycle’s most hotly contested legislative race in the region is poised again for both a competitive primary and a competitive general election.
by | Feb 13, 2020 2:26 pm | Comments (35)
Harp (left): Bloomberg (right) gets cities.
On a week when opponents have attacked him on race, presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg has picked up the support of New Haven’s most prominent African-American elected official of the past two decades.