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Aug 16, 2011 11:11 am
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Fund administrator Robert Wechsler.
The New Haven Democracy Fund’s governing board may have agreed at its last meeting not to investigate the DeStefano mayoral campaign for violations of its rules. The board did not, however, promise to leave the issue alone.
The board, which runs the first-in-Connecticut program that gives public funds to qualifying mayoral candidates, took up the issue again at a meeting Monday night in City Hall.
Calling the incumbent an “absentee alderman” who is not giving Dixwell residents a seat at the city’s table,repeat challenger Lisa Hopkins held a meet-and-greet as part of her fifth attempt to win the Ward 22 seat. “The fifth time is the charm,” she said.
DeStefano responded sharply to criticisms from his challengers.
A larger and oranger than life Robert Lee made an appearance.
School reform sparked some of the sharpest exchanges as the five candidates for mayor held their first debate Thursday night — and hundreds tuned in in person and at home to join the conversation on issues from privatization to candidate note-reading.
Deputy Registrar of Voters Helen Powell checks Gabriel Santiago’s last-minute petitions.
Yusuf Shah may be back in the aldermanic campaign game, Marcus Paca has a last-minute challenger, and some Democrats had second thoughts about running for office twice in two months.
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Paul Bass and Thomas MacMillan
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Aug 10, 2011 2:20 pm
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Ready to rumble: Graves, Kerekes, Dawson, DeStefano, Lee.
Fresh from handing in signatures to join a crowded primary ballot, four mayoral candidates will debate incumbent John DeStefano as well as each other — and you’re invited to join the conversation.
Sally Brown amid the avalanche: The Do-Over Era Dawns.
A last-minute petition rush is finding Democrats lining up to make not just the local Sept. 13 primary election ballot — but also the November general ballot.
Mayoral candidate Jeffrey Kerekes sought to cultivate some signatures on a ballot petition amid the organic tomatoes and squash at Wooster Square’s farmer market. Instead, he found himself kicked off the premises.
Dawson (right): “Hey, Hot Dog Man. Are you ready?”
Tony Dawson couldn’t find any voters home, so he tracked them down where they work — under the tent of a hotdog cart and on the sidewalks by Yale-New Haven Hospital.
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Aug 2, 2011 1:05 pm
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On the heels of the year’s 20th homicide, mayoral candidate Jeffrey Kerekes issued a press release criticizing incumbent Mayor John DeStefano for his “endless meddling and micro-managing of the police department.”
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Melissa Bailey
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Aug 1, 2011 12:13 pm
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When a mayoral candidate crashed City Hall to campaign among harried taxpayers, he found some support —as well as resistance from city officials who ordered him not to collect their signatures.
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Melissa Bailey
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Jul 28, 2011 8:33 am
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“Turn the TV down!” the voter called into his living room as the campaigns of four would-be mayors hit the streets on Day One of a two-week citywide blitz. The voter turned his attention to the woman at his door: “What do you want?”
“Attorney Graves is running for mayor for New Haven, and I’m here today to ask you to please sign the petition so he can get on the ballot.”
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Laurel Leff
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Jul 27, 2011 8:23 am
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Alderman Yusuf I. Shah has represented West River’s Ward 23 for a decade, but you might not have known that Tuesday night. Newcomer Tyisha Walker received the Democratic Party’s endorsement while Shah was nowhere to be seen.
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Melissa Bailey
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Jul 27, 2011 8:12 am
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Deputy City Clerk Sally Brown certified Kerekes’ independent petitions.
Jeffrey Kerekes Tuesday found out that he collected more than the 104 certified signatures he needed to land a spot on the ballot for the November general election. That was the easy part. Now comes the tougher test, in which he and fellow mayoral candidates need to collect over 2,000 signatures in just two weeks to make it to the Democratic primary — a threshold 20 times higher.
Making a pitch for unity in a divisive political year, Mayor John DeStefano won the Democratic Party’s endorsement for his reelection campaign — and saw an opponent grab dissenting votes for the first time in a decade.
Brenda Foskey-Cyrus, who’s running for alderman in Newhallville’s Ward 21, where Katrina Jones is not seeking reelection, sent in the following photos and writeup of her campaign launch.
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Jul 26, 2011 8:21 am
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Neither of the two candidates who have declared that they intend to run against New Haven’s only Republican alderman received the endorsement of the Ward 18 Democratic Committee Monday night, despite the wishes of most of the ward committee members present who wanted to endorse Sal DeCola.
DeCola, a retired licensed electrician, and Sarah Saiano, a research assistant in Yale’s psychiatry department, will face each other in a Sept. 13 primary for the right to run in the general election against incumbent Arlene DePino, who has represented Morris Cove for four terms.
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Melissa Bailey
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Jul 26, 2011 7:56 am
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As citywide Democrats gather to give their blessing to municipal candidates in the busiest campaign season in at least a decade, one mayoral contender is boycotting what he calls “incumbent-biased insanity.”
On the basketball court kids from the McConaughy Terrace projects donned team shirts to start off the second year of a community league. On the sidelines Carlton Staggers donned a blue team T‑shirt of his own — and announced he’s ready to hit the pavement for a second quest for public office.
