by | Sep 9, 2010 8:41 am | Comments (10)
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Let New Haven have its own sales tax. Let it tax downtown bars. And let it set up red-light cameras to catch speeding cars.
That wasn’t John DeStefano talking. That was the Republican candidate for governor.
by | Sep 8, 2010 2:02 pm | Comments (8)
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Dan Malloy looked out at a roomful of people younger than 24. “You were not alive the last time we elected a Democratic governor in Connecticut — in one of the most Democratic states in the nation,” he told them. Then he asked them to help him overcome the curse.
by | Sep 6, 2010 9:37 am | Comments (25)
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One wants to see East Rock Global Magnet School become the next Hooker. The other, a Hooker parent leader, wants to cut fat from the Board of Ed budget.
by | Sep 3, 2010 11:00 am | Comments (15)
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As the sun set over Silver Sands Beach and Tennis Club, Congressional candidate Jerry Labriola celebrated U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro’s “retirement” and promised voters a $300 “holiday.”
by | Aug 31, 2010 11:47 am | Comments (26)
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Charlie Pillsbury said he had hoped a younger Green Party member would emerge to try to unseat U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro this November. No such luck. So he’s dusting off his 2002 campaign signs, calling for a 70 percent military budget cut, and throwing his hat — gently — into the ring.
by | Aug 30, 2010 11:03 am | Comments (12)
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When Tom Foley considers serving as governor for cities like New Haven, he sees new choices for nursing home patients and public-school parents, and a death penalty that works.
by | Aug 27, 2010 7:50 am | Comments (7)
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Blumenthal with Yale Stem Cell Center Director Haifan Lin
Nobody present could have any any doubt: Dick Blumenthal supports stem cell research.
by | Aug 16, 2010 11:37 am | Comments (1)
Jason Paul
One of the things I can’t stand about pundits is that they are so often make predictions that turn out to be just plain wrong but they never have to admit those mistakes. Instead they return to make a new round of predictions without ever owning what they said previously. In the interest of full disclosure, here is how I did against my predictions published in the Independent the day before last week’s Democratic gubernatorial primary contest between Dan Malloy and Ned Lamont.
by | Aug 16, 2010 7:50 am | Comments (40)
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East Haven Mayor April Capone Almon (at right) asked people to pony up for Blumenthal.
Richard Blumenthal kicked off the next chapter of Connecticut’s U.S. Senate race in Independent Voter Country with a swipe at his opponent’s decision to pour her personal wealth into the race. The chapter’s emerging title: Who’s The True Angry Populist?
Continue reading ‘Blumenthal Vows “An Election, Not An Auction”’
by | Aug 13, 2010 7:55 am | Comments (39)
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Kimber (left). Malloy (right).
Dan Malloy had a gift for one of Connecticut’s most politically influential and controversial ministers. The minister had a gift for him, too: backing for his gubernatorial candidacy.
by | Aug 11, 2010 2:50 pm | Comments (31)
Party leaders told New Haven Democrats to vote “Line B.” They voted “Line A” instead, with one exception: They favored hometown candidate Gerry Garcia in the secretary of the state primary. Even that was close.
Continue reading ‘Lamont Even Lost New Haven; City Turnout 21%’
by | Aug 10, 2010 10:38 pm | Comments (21)
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Malloy claims victory.
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Family surrounds Lamont at his concession speech.
(Updated) Outspent and down in the polls, former Stamford Mayor Dan Malloy roared back to victory in Connecticut’s Democratic gubernatorial primary Tuesday over Greenwich businessman Ned Lamont. Malloy claimed a come-from-behind victory not just for him, but also for public financing in state elections.
by | Aug 10, 2010 10:01 pm | Comments (0)
There was “no stoppin’” a sound truck in the 92nd General Assembly District Tuesday. But candidate who hired the truck was stopped cold at the polls.
by | Aug 10, 2010 8:36 pm | Comments (11)
A spirited campaign for an open state legislative seat ended in a victory for East Rock Alderman Roland Lemar Tuesday night.
by | Aug 10, 2010 1:36 pm | Comments (10)
Garcia chats with supporter Jose Santos outside a polling place in Waterbury.
(Updated) New Haven’s Gerry Garcia didn’t succeed in his quest to become the first Latino endorsed by a major party for statewide office in Connecticut — but he and his campaign “opened doors,” he told supporters at a post-election gathering at Christy’s bar on Orange Street.
by | Aug 10, 2010 8:04 am | Comments (7)
A hotly contested set of primaries Tuesday will put to the test the ability of wealthy outsiders to win political office, the ability of New Haven Democratic Party outsiders to challenge the machine, and the ability of Connecticut Hispanics to place a Latino on a statewide ticket.
by | Aug 9, 2010 10:16 pm | Comments (8)
Vowing to “fight for your jobs!” a hoarse Ned Lamont made his final argument to voters on the same block where he opened his Democratic campaign for governor: in the battleground city of New Haven.
Continue reading ‘Lamont Offers Closer; New Haven A Battleground’
by | Aug 9, 2010 2:06 pm | Comments (2)
During an hour of door-to-door campaigning in East Rock last week, state representative candidate Roland Lemar found a lot of empty homes — but not a lot of voters. He found only two constituents to talk to, and told them both that he is “terrified” all the voters will be out of town during the primary on Aug. 10.
by | Aug 9, 2010 7:55 am | Comments (6)
Prognosticator Paul.
Just how close will it be? How long into Tuesday night before one candidate can claim victory? One of Connecticut’s most incisive in-the-trenches numbers-crunchers handicaps the Ned Lamont-Dan Malloy Democratic gubernatorial primary, offering up the ten factors to watch:
Continue reading ‘Jason The Greek: Watch W. Hartford & The 3 Ms’
by | Aug 6, 2010 7:55 am | Comments (5)
A day after his opponent for the Democratic secretary of the state nomination accused him of going negative, Gerry Garcia offered to pull his latest TV ad — with an “if” attached.
by | Aug 6, 2010 7:55 am | Comments (26)
With momentum at his back, a gubernatorial candidate took his campaign into a neglected stretch of New Haven’s Newhallville neighborhood — and people unaccustomed to seeing politicians took notice.
by | Aug 5, 2010 4:21 pm | Comments (15)
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East Rock psychologist Debra Hauser has injected over $43,000 of her own money into her quest for a state representative seat, triggering four supplementary public-financing grants to her rival in the Democratic primary. She’s also found a few dollars to throw into another race, donating $250 to a gubernatorial candidate — Republican Tom Foley.
by | Aug 5, 2010 12:15 pm | Comments (27)
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One candidate said Connecticut can create jobs through tax reform and more transportation and education spending. The other candidate spoke of how Newhallville can borrow an idea from Bangladesh.
by | Aug 5, 2010 9:54 am | Comments (9)
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Sergio Rodriguez blew up balloons and provided chocolate chip, oatmeal, and sugar cookies with pink sprinkles to mark the opening of his campaign headquarters for the final push of his primary challenge for the 92nd General Assembly District seat.
by | Aug 5, 2010 6:16 am | Comments (12)
Broadcasting grainy, unflattering video of the opponent. Calling the opponent part of the “mess” in state government.