New Haven U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, issued a pitch to un-stall renewed U.S. military aid to Ukraine after participating in a Capitol Hill meeting Tuesday with visiting Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy. She released the following statement:
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Justin Farmer and Daniel Dunn |
Dec 12, 2023 12:22 pm
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Justin Farmer and Daniel Dunn.
The following opinion essay was submitted by Justin Farmer, who formerly represented District 5 on the Hamden Legislative Council, and Daniel Dunn, a member of the Hamden Police Commission.
We were saddened and disappointed to witness Mayor Garrett cite the hiring of 29 new officers as an achievement in public safety during her campaign. Several of these officers have troubling histories.
The board for the city’s public financing program ruled that Mayor Justin Elicker’s reelection campaign did nothing wrong when it sent out a flyer urging voters to support this year’s charter-revision ballot question, and has agreed to dismiss a related complaint so long as his campaign donates its unspent election-year dollars to the clean-elections fund.
Alders-Elect Kiana Flores, Frank Redente, and Caroline Smith at WNHH FM.
Three of New Haven’s alders-elect with Fair Haven connections said they’re pumped to get to work as part of a community “team” that tackles safe streets, affordable housing, and small business growth.
Julie Parr, outside her 116 Crown home: "I felt very disenfranchised."
Julie Parr and 27 of her Crown Street neighbors didn’t get to vote in their ward’s alder race in this month’s election, because a government mess-up sent them to the wrong polling district.
By day Steve Mednick has been helping cities rewrite their constitutions. By night he has been writing songs about the storms in our political universe.
Mayor Justin Elicker won a total of 10,064 votes, or 79.7 percent of all of the votes cast in this year’s mayoral election, according to the official tally published by the Registrar of Voters office.
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Laura Glesby and Lisa Reisman |
Nov 7, 2023 9:50 pm
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Sal DeCola, reelected for a seventh term, with supporters.
(Updated) Six-term incumbent Democrat Sal DeCola has retained his seat — by winning less than 40 percent of the vote at the polls — in a three-way alder race to represent Morris Cove’s Ward 18.
Voters also overwhelmingly approved the charter-revision ballot question, by nearly a 2‑to‑1 margin. That means that, starting with the 2027 municipal election year, the mayor, city clerk, and all 30 alders will serve four-year terms instead of two-year terms each.
Overall, 13,058 people voted in the Tuesday’s general elections, including 614 absentee, meaning that voter turnout citywide was around 24.5 percent.
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Thomas Breen, Nora Grace-Flood and Maya McFadden |
Nov 7, 2023 2:08 pm
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Cody Uman, in Ward 21: Voting yes on 4-year terms.
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Outside the Conte West Hills polling place on Chapel St.
(Updated and corrected) Cody Uman, an undergraduate math major at Yale, was running late to class Tuesday after setting aside an extra hour to research the proposed changes to the city’s charter and bike over to King-Robinson School to cast his vote in Ward 21, which covers parts of Newhallville, Dixwell and Prospect Hill.
He said he was voting “yes” on the ballot measure in favor of four-year terms for all elected officials and increased salaries for the city’s alders to make sure they’re better “compensated for their time.”
Mayor Elicker (right) and one side of the contested flyer.
New Haven’s public financing program board members delayed acting on a complaint filed against the mayor’s reelection campaign until after the election, leaving up in the air just how directly taxpayer-funded local candidates can urge voters to support ballot measures like this year’s charter revision.
One side of contested campaign flyer. Candidate info or "call to action"?
Did Mayor Justin Elicker’s reelection campaign break local public-financing rules by sending out mail urging voters to support Tuesday’s charter-revision ballot measure — when the Democracy Fund prohibits candidates from expenditures focused on supporting or opposing ballot measures?
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Nov 6, 2023 9:57 am
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Write-in alder candidates (clockwise from top left) Josh Glaab of Ward 10, Fred Christmas of Ward 21, Ira Johnson of Ward 11, Dennis Serfilippi of Ward 25, and Susan Campion of Ward 18.
A high school science teacher in East Rock, a community organizer in Dixwell, a budget watchdog in Westville, and a Tweed critic in Morris Cove are some of the five alder hopefuls this year seeking to convince voters to put pen to ballot to support their write-in candidacies for local legislative office.
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Nov 5, 2023 11:06 am
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John DeStefano.
Former Mayor DeStefano counts up all the elections he ran in and all the alders he served with over 20 years — and tells readers why he’s voting “yes” on charter reform, including four-year terms for mayor and alders.
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Nora Grace-Flood and Thomas Breen |
Nov 3, 2023 5:20 pm
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Anthony Acri (right) with Steve Orosco at New Haven Republicans' 2021 campaign HQ: Time in prison "changed my perspective on what life is really about."
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City Clerk Mike Smart: "I like the people. I like dealing with the land records. I love dealing with alders."
A city/town clerk rematch is set to take place on Tuesday — as a veteran Democratic incumbent faces off against a Republican candidate hoping to represent his New Haven home following a recent stint in federal prison for his role in a West Texas wire fraud conspiracy.
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Nov 3, 2023 4:37 pm
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Ward 11 alder candidates Gail Roundtree, Henry "Rodney" Murphy, and Ira Johnson.
Local Democrats have picked 59-year-old Bella Vista resident and political newcomer Henry “Rodney” Murphy to replace the late Renee Haywood as their last-minute candidate for Ward 11 alder in Tuesday’s general election.
That means that Murphy — a Greater New Haven Transit District operations manager, embroidery enthusiast, and avid drone flyer — has just a few days to convince his neighbors to cast their ballots for him instead of for Republican challenger Gail Roundtree and write-in candidate Ira Johnson, both of whom have unsuccessfully run for local office before.
Republican challenger Dave Agosta and Democratic incumbent Eli Sabin, both running for Ward 7 alder.
The quest for denser and more affordable housing, safer streets, smoother sidewalks, and a more accessible city for people with disabilities is driving this year’s contested alder race in East Rock/Downtown’s Ward 7 — along with online messages from the aldermanic challenger that made unsupported accusations of attempted murder and “intimidation,” some of which he called “satirical,” some sincere.
Two Wooster Square residents running for alder convened for a debate — and sketched out diverging visions for policing, addiction treatment, and the legitimacy of the Republican Party.
Mayoral opponents / allies Wendy Hamilton and Tom Goldenberg, with a poster designed by Bill Saunders.
At a joint press conference on Monday, mayoral challengers Tom Goldenberg and Wendy Hamilton agreed on what they wouldn’t do if elected mayor — namely, they wouldn’t “sell” a block of High Street to Yale University.
