by | Oct 25, 2010 7:17 am | Comments (71)
She made no mention of a mansion in Greenwich or a certain yacht named Sexy Bitch. Addressing worshipers in New Haven’s Bethel AME congregation, Linda McMahon instead spoke of a hardscrabble youth in North Carolina, a trailer-park kid named Vince, a personal bankruptcy — and an upcoming election.
by | Oct 21, 2010 10:51 am | Comments (4)
New Haven’s union vote-pullers have a theme song and a new video.
by | Oct 20, 2010 7:07 am | Comments (24)
Young Cho (at right) of Gourmet Heaven.
McMahon (at right) with Yorkside’s Koutroumanis.
Tony Koutroumanis landed a new celebrity customer to boast about at Yorkside Pizza & Restaurant, as Linda McMahon spent an hour and a half under the radar in New Haven’s Broadway shopping district, keeping the focus of her U.S. Senate campaign on jobs rather than on the questions of the press pack.
by | Oct 19, 2010 7:22 am | Comments (4)
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Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley with environmental activist Tom Harrison after Monday’s event.
Tom Foley may not consider himself a “Teddy Roosevelt Republican,” but he does want to reclaim some of the late president’s environmental cred.
At a green-focused gubernatorial candidate forum in New Haven Monday, Foley (pictured) pointed out that although he’s agnostic on what’s causing global warming, “I would support all the policies that people who are concerned about global warming would support.”
He added that as governor, he wouldn’t pull Connecticut out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
And, if elected, he’d continue to buy land for conservation and push state government to build greener buildings, he said..
by | Oct 18, 2010 6:04 pm | Comments (9)
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A gubernatorial candidate picked the wrong time to visit Louis’ Lunch.
When it comes to the high cost of labor contracts, Tom Foley feels John DeStefano’s pain.
by | Oct 14, 2010 4:03 pm | Comments (14)
Dick Blumenthal is forcing some of the country’s biggest lenders to stop foreclosing on people. Linda McMahon says he’s overreacting.
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by | Oct 14, 2010 1:35 pm | Comments (16)
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They saw that ad of Linda McMahon asking Dick Blumenthal asking how to “create a job.” What was up with that?
by | Oct 13, 2010 3:13 pm | Comments (6)
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Dixon Jimenez had never knocked on doors for candidates before. He signed up to do that to help the Democratic Party rally the vote in the three weeks remaining until Nov. 2 — joining a campaign “Brigade” that’s seeking Latino help as it turns its focus to the city.
by | Oct 13, 2010 7:13 am | Comments (16)
Demonstrators outside the Garde Arts Center Tuesday evening.
The Republican seeking Connecticut’s open U.S. Senate seat, looking to reverse momentum in the race, purchased Internet ads saying she “won” a high-stakes debate Tuesday night.
by | Oct 12, 2010 10:32 am | Comments (55)
Darnell Goldson didn’t give away any international government secrets. He merely backed a Republican for U.S. Senate — and that, he believes, was enough to get his house egged.
by | Oct 7, 2010 7:17 am | Comments (3)
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Blumenthal arrived to cheers at First & Summerfield.
As a labor issue injected momentum into his campaign for U.S. Senate, Dick Blumenthal returned to the home of New Haven’s most politically active unions to rally his base — and cash in on 20 years worth of favors.
by | Oct 5, 2010 9:50 am | Comments (4)
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Foley, at left, with Alderman Joseph Rodriguez, at right.
The issue of immigration seemed bound to come up at a gubernatorial debate Monday evening sponsored by a Latino organization. Especially since one candidate’s running mate wants to rid his city of undocumented immigrants and whose police force is working with the federal government to enforce immigration laws,
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‘Foley To Latinos:
I'm Pro-Immigrant. Really’
by | Oct 5, 2010 8:11 am | Comments (39)
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After taking fire for his support of a Republican candidate for U.S. Senator, Democratic Alderman Darnell Goldson swung back at one of his detractors — a fellow alderwoman — by invoking a never-before-used rule.
by | Oct 4, 2010 8:44 pm | Comments (18)
No one cares about Afghanistan. Everyone loves those “passionate” Tea Partiers. And all that hullabaloo over the Vietnam War? That was so last summer.
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Outside the debate, on Capitol Avenue.
by | Oct 4, 2010 6:19 am | Comments (12)
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Linda McMahon may not have ever actually said she wants to cut the minimum wage. That didn’t stop leading state Democrats like Nancy Wyman (pictured) from using the alleged statement to fire up the troops at a New Haven get-out-the-vote rally.
by | Oct 1, 2010 9:38 am | Comments (59)
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(Updated)As Democrats rally to rescue Dick Blumenthal’s Senate campaign, West Rock’s alderman broke ranks and endorsed the Republican contender.
Democratic Alderman Darnell Goldson said he has a lawn sign in his yard for Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon, has offered her a tour of his neighborhood, and is open to becoming a paid campaign worker.
by | Sep 28, 2010 2:44 pm | Comments (6)
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With just four signatures, Jessica Holmes got the support she needed to land a place on a Nov. 2 ballot for East Rock alderman.
by | Sep 28, 2010 1:39 pm | Comments (27)
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Martha Dean arrived in a New Haven coffee shop and ordered a Nirvana bottled water. On the campaign trail her tastes have run more toward tea — as in “Tea Party.” Both she and her opponent for Connecticut attorney general say that works in their favor.
by | Sep 27, 2010 12:28 pm | Comments (2)
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While being intermittently drown out by blaring reggaeton music from passing cars, Latino advocates from around state gathered outside a bilingual school in Fair Haven to back the gubernatorial candidacy of Dan Malloy.
by | Sep 26, 2010 2:01 pm | Comments (41)
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Another U.S. president came to Connecticut Sunday to try to boost Dick Blumenthal’s sagging U.S. Senate campaign — and in a pep rally inside New Haven’s Wilbur Cross High School gym, the candidate welcomed him with no reservations.
by | Sep 22, 2010 2:44 pm | Comments (16)
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Like her two opponents, the newest candidate in the special election for East Rock alderman is focusing on schools. She said she’d like to organize neighbors around the new East Rock Global Magnet School — as in union organizing.
by | Sep 22, 2010 12:50 pm | Comments (5)
They call Wilbur Cross High School students “the Governors” — but on Sunday a former president and would-be future senator will take center stage.
by | Sep 21, 2010 5:43 pm | Comments (4)
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Dan Malloy took a long drive to a short pier in New Haven to offer a waterfront vision for creating new jobs and getting trucks off the road.
by | Sep 16, 2010 7:53 am | Comments (5)
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Malloy (left) with Town Chair Susie Voigt Wednesday night.
A portion of New Haven’s Democratic Party organization claimed it was ready to kiss and make up with Dan Malloy — and promised to work to help a fellow “city” politician get elected governor of Connecticut.
by | Sep 14, 2010 5:22 pm | Comments (7)
If Linda McMahon were a U.S. senator right now, she’d join with her fellow Republican senators — and against leading Republican U.S. representatives — on the showdown du jour over tax cuts.