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U.S. Sen. Murphy (right): Harris's campaign represents broad "defense of democracy."
Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney aren’t the most natural of political allies.
But, when faced with the prospect of another Trump presidency, “there’s a lot of unusual partners being joined together today in defense of democracy. That is the actual stakes today.”
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Oct 23, 2024 10:36 am
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Leslie Blatteau and Elizabeth Baldetti work the phones for "pro-worker, pro-working-family candidates like Vice President Kamala Harris, former AFT member Tim Walz, and Senator Bob Casey."
Seven New Haven teachers gathered after school to make phone calls — not to students’ parents, but to registered voters in the all-important swing state of Pennsylvania, to encourage them to each make voting plans, and to boost Democratic candidates for president, vice president, and senate.
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Dozens wait to cast their ballots, at around 10 a.m.
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Kenneth Barnes: "I just want the world to be a better place."
Dozens of New Haveners lined up on the second floor of City Hall Monday morning to cast the city’s first early ballots in this year’s long-coming presidential election.
State Rep. Pat Dillon at WNHH FM: "It's great if you bought DoorDash stock five years ago, not if you had maybe 10 people on your staff, serving people, and now you're down to two."
Pat Dillon started visiting voters on her 22nd round of seeking election to a state legislative seat when she learned something new: the Amity Walgreens is closing.
The voters who broke the news considered it a big deal. Dillon said she does, too, and intends to incorporate it into her work if elected on Nov. 5 to represent New Haven’s west-side 92nd General Assembly District for a 21st two-year term.
Josh Elliott is ready to run for governor to challenge the current governor’s take on taxing the rich — but only if the current governor isn’t on the ballot.
Beaver Hills Alder Tom Ficklin, a leading New Haven figure in media and politics and a community omnipresence for decades, died suddenly Wednesday night at the age of 75.
Stacey Abrams (right), and interlocutor Emily Bazelon: "If you’re interested in peoples’ lives being better, that’s politics.”
State government is by far the least understood in our system, and in many ways the most important to get right if we want to achieve the goals of democracy.
Former Georgia state rep and gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams made those remarks, by turns trenchant yet largely apolitical, at the Hopkins School Monday afternoon before no fewer than 1,200 enthusiastic, applauding young people.
Don’t understand the headline of this story? Neither do we, really. Our Gen Z correspondent is here to help.
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro’s most recent post on X (formerly known as Twitter) sticks out in the midst of policy-driven proclamations and support for foreign allies. It’s a TikTok-style video, where the 81-year-old congresswoman speaks what to many might be gibberish, but to an entire generation, is perfectly clear.
On issues ranging from the federal Department of Education’s existence to companies’ use of algorithm-based “targeted pricing,” New Haven voters have heard a clear choice this week from candidates for Congress.
(Updated) Angel Hubbard bested Miguel Pittman in Monday’s special election for Ward 3 alder — but by less than 20 votes, which means city election officials will have to recount the ballots by hand before the results are final.
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro brought a progressive star with MAGA cred to town Monday to help craft an election season message about high food prices: Blame corporate price-gougers.
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Miguel Pittman sat in one of two electric golf carts on an Orange Street sidewalk Wednesday afternoon — after casting an early ballot for his own bid to become Ward 3’s next alder, and as he prepared to drive back to the Hill in his campaign “eye catcher” of a vehicle.
Miguel and Sandra Pittman, on the Hill campaign trail.
Shauna Williams-Smith had never been visited by a local politician before this week. She also didn’t know about the Board of Alders, let alone the special election to replace former Ward 3 Alder Ron Hurt later this month.
But on Wednesday, Miguel Pittman showed up at her Stevens Street door to pitch his run for the neighborhood legislative role — and won a pledge of support from a Hill resident newly engaged with local politics.
