by | Jun 13, 2013 6:11 pm | Comments (22)
Toni Harp asked Dixwell’s top cop, Sgt. Sam Brown, to show her the neighborhood trouble spots that command his officers’ attention.
In response, Brown drove her to a different neighborhood. “We’ll go to Newhallville, senator,” he told her.
by | Jun 13, 2013 2:51 pm | Comments (3)
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Middle- schooler Diante Troutman asks mayoral candidate Kermit Carolina a quick follow-up question.
“Mr. Carolina?” 7th-grader Diante Troutman asked the mayoral candidate. “I believe I have something to ask you.”
Diante was asking Kermit Carolina whether he might know his mother from high school. As he asked this question, Carolina had been reading a profile of himself that included answers to some questions Diante had asked him a couple of weeks ago.
by | Jun 13, 2013 8:22 am | Comments (9)
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Advising New Haven to “just say no to subsidizing wealthy developers,” mayoral candidate Kermit Carolina has come out against a proposed $10 million-plus bailout of the Ninth Square project.
by | Jun 12, 2013 7:10 pm | Comments (34)
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Harp and Candelaria.
Twenty-five years of legislative relationships paid off for Toni Harp Wednesday, as she won the endorsement of New Haven’s top Latino elected officials in her quest for the mayor’s seat.
by | Jun 12, 2013 1:25 pm | Comments (10)
The ghost of Miles Davis haunted an old Vaudeville theater — and racked up some coins for a modern-day mayoral campaign.
by | Jun 11, 2013 5:14 pm | Comments (16)
Gary Holder-Winfield took his New Haven mayoral campaign on the road Tuesday — to Albany.
by | Jun 7, 2013 6:09 pm | Comments (20)
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Sundiata Keitazulu heard from homeless men about how hard it is to find a job coming out of prison. Unlike other mayoral candidates, Keitazulu knew firsthand what they meant — because he’d lived it.
by | Jun 6, 2013 2:00 pm | Comments (27)
This story originally appeared in Spanish in La Voz Hispana. It was translated into English by Gilah Benson-Tilsen.
The political arena in New Haven is heating up with seven candidates for the coming election, which will determine the successor to John DeStefano Jr. as mayor. DeStefano is retiring from that position after 20 years of heading the local administration. Among the candidates for mayor, the presence of Henry Fernandez stands out. He has been directly involved in the development of this area for more than two decades, in addition to being at the head of advocacy and support organizations for the general Latino community, not only on a local level, but also on a national level. We spoke for a while with the young candidate and graduate of Yale Law School.
by | Jun 6, 2013 8:00 am | Comments (30)
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A day after a mayoral candidate attacked an opponent on ethics, he found himself criticized by a different opponent — for allegedly going back on his word about being a good Democrat.
Continue reading ‘Holder-Winfield Asks: “Where Have All The Dems Gone?”’
by | Jun 5, 2013 2:04 pm | Comments (18)
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Smith, at right, pictured at his April reelection campaign kick-off.
Michael Smart thinks the city clerk’s office is stuck in the last century? Ron Smith said he knows better — and he mailed a letter to the Independent to say so.
by | Jun 5, 2013 8:05 am | Comments (18)
Mayoral candidate Henry Fernandez took aim at a top opponent, state Sen. Toni Harp, for joining a budget vote in Hartford that he said could could help bail out her son’s business from $1.1 million in delinquent state taxes.
Continue reading ‘Fernandez Criticizes Harp For Tax Amnesty Vote’
by | Jun 4, 2013 11:44 pm | Comments (12)
Three more Democratic mayoral candidates are leaving open the option to run as independents in the general election if they lose their party’s primary.
Continue reading ‘Get Ready For 2 Mayoral Elections This Year’
by | Jun 4, 2013 2:42 pm | Comments (10)
The first candidate has emerged to replace outgoing Wooster Square Democratic Alderman Michael Smart — and he’s not a Democrat.
by | Jun 3, 2013 6:48 pm | Comments (16)
New Haven wouldn’t face pressures to raise taxes or spend more on schools if only its state legislators would use their power to fully reimburse the city for tax-exempt property, one mayoral candidate said Sunday — in effect laying the blame at the feet of one of his opponents.
Continue reading ‘Fernandez: Legislators (Read: Harp) Didn’t Deliver’
by | Jun 2, 2013 3:16 pm | Comments (63)
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From left: Holmes, Clyburn, Wingate, Walker, Looney, Morrison, Douglass, Harp, Paolillo, Robinson-Thorpe, Constantinople, Perez, DeCola, Marchand, Foskey-Cyrus.
A majority of the city’s elected aldermen threw their support to mayoral candidate Toni Harp Sunday and presented her opponents with a challenge: Should they form their own slate of candidates? Or leave those aldermen alone?
Continue reading ‘18 Alders Back Harp; Opponents Face Dilemma’
by | May 31, 2013 2:14 pm | Comments (24)
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In front of two video cameras in the backyard of his East Rock home, then on the campaign hustings, Matt Nemerson sought to single himself out as the one mayoral hopeful promising he will not raise taxes, period.
by | May 30, 2013 11:00 am | Comments (11)
Michael Smart brought 60 allies to the office he hopes to take over after the next election — and signed onto one of the more curious campaigns in “New Haven Spring.”
by | May 30, 2013 8:02 am | Comments (44)
Hillhouse Principal Kermit Carolina formally kicked off his mayoral campaign with a new idea for fighting gang violence and a no-thank-you to the city’s most politically powerful union.
Continue reading ‘Carolina: Take Your Endorsement & Shove It’
by | May 29, 2013 2:45 pm | Comments (10)
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No one was home. So Gary Holder-Winfield wrote down his number on a flyer — not to his state legislative office, not to his mayoral campaign office, but to his personal cell phone.
Continue reading ‘Holder-Winfield Walks Miles In His Wing Tips’
by | May 28, 2013 4:08 pm | Comments (20)
This year’s first “reversal” of a mayoral campaign promise came Tuesday, as Matthew Nemerson changed his mind about posting on his website the names of contributors and how much they give him within 48 hours.
by | May 28, 2013 8:15 am | Comments (50)
“I’m not supporting someone [just] because of the color of their skin,” Greg Morehead called up to the second-floor window on Admiral Street after introducing yet another neighbor to “my friend Justin.”
“We don’t do that,” agreed the woman on the second floor. Then she gave Morehead’s “friend” all the time he wanted to make his pitch.
by | May 24, 2013 1:39 pm | Comments (13)
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Henry Fernandez asked voters in Dixwell to choose him as the next mayor — but to vote him out if he fails in a crucial task, “dramatically improving public schools.”
Continue reading ‘Fernandez: Don’t Reelect Me If Schools Stay The Same’
by | May 23, 2013 12:54 pm | Comments (23)
New Haven’s mayoral campaign had its first celebrity sighting Thursday, as actor Danny Glover endorsed Henry Fernandez — and warned against school reform that puts too much emphasis on standardized tests.
Continue reading ‘Backing Fernandez, Glover Questions Ed Reform’
by | May 23, 2013 8:02 am | Comments (16)
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The State Senate was prepared to vote on a bill, then decided to wait — until Toni Harp could take care of mayoral campaign business back in New Haven.
by | May 23, 2013 7:14 am | Comments (11)
Days after another daylight fusillade of bullets on Newhallville’s streets and a decision by Yale to pull out of a home-building project due to safety concerns, mayoral candidates Wednesday called for creative new approaches from the city to bring order to the neighborhood.
Continue reading ‘Candidates Call For Deeper Response To Newhallville Violence’