by | Aug 29, 2013 8:23 am | Comments (93)
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Harp, Fernandez, Elicker, & Carolina.
(Updated with video of the debate.) One candidate got props from his rivals. Another went after his rivals. And a third gave out his phone number.
Those were three highlights from a live televised mayoral debate Wednesday night at Long Wharf Theatre. The four Democratic mayoral candidates met onstage less than two weeks before the Sept. 10 Democratic primary.
by | Aug 28, 2013 8:17 am | Comments (25)
Citing her leadership on stem cell research and her work for “abused and neglected children,” U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy Tuesday threw his support behind Toni Harp’s mayoral campaign.
by | Aug 28, 2013 8:06 am | Comments (16)
A push-poller from an outfit called National Opinion Research called some voters at home Monday night to trash mayoral candidate Toni Harp. Who could have hired the trash-talker?
by | Aug 27, 2013 8:23 am | Comments (2)
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The candidate with Padilla.
More and better resourced senior centers. A senior corps where in exchange for volunteering, you get free vacation trips. Better public transit. Prioritizing the clearing of senior buildings and bus stops during snowstorms.
Democratic mayoral candidate Henry Fernandez pitched those at ideas at the Fair Haven Elderly Apartments on Saltonstall Street Monday afternoon as he rolled out his senior citizen platform.
by | Aug 27, 2013 8:10 am | Comments (11)
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Harp, Neal & Brown.
As she accepted the endorsement of New Haven’s black firefighters association, Toni Harp praised the group’s efforts to make sure city-dwellers — not just suburbanites — are ready for public safety jobs.
Continue reading ‘Harp Lauds Way To Groom City FIrefighters’
by | Aug 26, 2013 4:03 pm | Comments (11)
The new improved primary ballot — as of Monday.
The Harp mayoral campaign failed to stop the city from mailing out absentee ballots Monday without changes; now it’s turning its attention to the primary election-day ballot.
Continue reading ‘Absentee Ballots Mailed; Harp Camp Still Seeks Changes’
by | Aug 26, 2013 1:55 pm | Comments (34)
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When I held a pig roast this weekend at my East Rock home to support Justin Elicker’s campaign for mayor of New Haven — smoking a whole 155-pound hog over smoldering hickory wood for 24 hours — the most common question I got from the adults was: Have you cooked a lot of whole pigs this way? And from the kids: Can you eat the head?
by | Aug 26, 2013 12:09 pm | Comments (10)
Paul Ondrejka’s take on the West River.
Campaigning in Westville, Toni Harp came across one of her favorite New Haven scenes — on a wall.
by | Aug 26, 2013 9:10 am | Comments (20)
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Carolina greets guests to a backyard campaign event Sunday evening.
Not only are more students reaching graduation at Hillhouse High School; they are also staying in college longer.
by | Aug 26, 2013 8:10 am | Comments (20)
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Perry and her husband, Charlie Pillsbury.
As crowds descended on her home to support Henry Fernandez, hostess Allie Perry welcomed visitors with her homemade guacamole — and politely stood her ground in support of a different candidate in the mayor’s race.
by | Aug 23, 2013 3:33 pm | Comments (5)
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The bull from Trumbull, the moose from Stiles, and the gnome from Davenport, and their upperclassmen pals were hard at work Friday afternoon carrying the luggage and lamps of the 1,300 Yale freshmen who arrived en masse at Phelps Gate on College Street.
The residential-mascots had a new helper this week: a mayoral candidate.
Candidate Justin Elicker carried Jenny Scherl’s new IKEA rug up seven flights to her room at Branford College — as the hunt for Yalies began in earnest during for the 19 days leading up to the four-way New Haven Democratic mayoral primary.
by | Aug 23, 2013 2:09 pm | Comments (12)
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The city’s pension fund is ticking like a “time bomb.” A new mayor comes in. He calls in the city unions. He calls in the state. Together, they work out a solution that rescues workers’ pensions, saves the city from bankruptcy — and brings in much-needed state PILOT money.
Wishful thinking? Or a creative new solution?
by | Aug 23, 2013 9:00 am | Comments (22)
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Greenberg and Ross.
In a topsy-turvy Wooster Square aldermanic debate, a newcomer to the neighborhood pitched himself as the candidate with the connections to be a good lawmaker — while two longtime neighbors boasted of their outsider status.
by | Aug 22, 2013 5:30 pm | Comments (24)
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Harp campaign manager Bartlett: Ballot’s too “subjective.”
The city clerk’s office ordered a new batch of 4,000 absentee ballots Thursday after the manager of Toni Harp’s mayoral campaign complained to the state about their “subjective” design.
Continue reading ‘Following Complaint, City Orders New Ballots’
by | Aug 22, 2013 8:18 am | Comments (30)
As mayor, Henry Fernandez would bring back the Q House — but not in the Q House itself.
Continue reading ‘Fernandez: Rebuild Q House Somewhere Else’
by | Aug 21, 2013 8:43 am | Comments (31)
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Newhallville Alderwomen Delphine Clyburn and Brenda Foskey-Cyrus praised the community benefits agreement leading to the deal to build the new school.
Supporters of Toni Harp’s mayoral candidacy gathered for a last look at some historic African-American portraits — and took aim at a new not-so-flattering one.
by | Aug 20, 2013 5:31 pm | Comments (27)
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(Updated with a response from Harp.) With the city’s bond ratings tanking and its “rainy day fund” drying up, mayoral candidate Justin Elicker vowed to sit down with all city department heads and find ways to trim the budget.
by | Aug 20, 2013 5:29 pm | Comments (9)
Standing near the scene where someone allegedly shot at a cop the other day, mayoral candidate Henry Fernandez called for taking community policing to the next level — to keep everyone safer.
Continue reading ‘Fernandez Calls For Ramping Up Community Policing’
by | Aug 20, 2013 1:28 pm | Comments (7)
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Ibrahim and Harp.
The mother of a Muslim student enrolled in a New Haven school, learning that her daughter was depressed, searched her daughter’s diary. She discovered entries about being taunted as “Bin Laden’s daughter” and a “towel head.”
by | Aug 19, 2013 7:12 pm | Comments (8)
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City/Town Clerk Ron Smith isn’t giving up on making the Sept. 10 Democratic primary ballot, even though the registrar of voters has rejected his petitions.
by | Aug 16, 2013 2:59 pm | Comments (7)
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With a small campaign team and no well-funded running mate providing the troops, underdog city clerk candidate Sergio Rodriguez rounded up enough signatures to officially land a spot on the Democratic primary ballot.
by | Aug 16, 2013 10:56 am | Comments (32)
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Matthew Harp appealed for a calmer tone in the mayoral campaign after discovering someone had shot out the front door to his Whalley Avenue real-estate office.
Candidate Kermit Carolina responded by condemning violence — and condemning Harp for “initimating” that he’s “complicit.”
Continue reading ‘Door Shot Out At Harp’s Real Estate Office’
by | Aug 16, 2013 8:45 am | Comments (30)
Two mayoral candidates urged seniors to vote for them — but not too many times.
by | Aug 15, 2013 5:12 pm | Comments (50)
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Malloy at Thursday afternoon’s endorsement, surrounded by Proto, former Demcoratic Town Chairman Nick Balletto, and Toni Harp.
The governor popped into East Rock Thursday afternoon to make the case that Toni Harp’s experience at the state Capitol shows why New Haveners should elect her their next mayor.
by | Aug 14, 2013 10:27 pm | Comments (26)
The governor plans to come to Nica’s Market Thursday to place an order — for a new mayor.