Tom Goldenberg: "This is quid pro quo politics. This is non-transparency. This is corruption."
The city’s Republican candidate for mayor kicked off his post-Democratic primary general election campaign by lobbing accusations of corruption at the Elicker administration in its dealings with a local methadone clinic — claims that the current mayor dismissed as “fearmongering politics,” “ridiculous,” “unethical,” and coming at the expense of some of New Haven’s most vulnerable populations.
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"Vanilla" match: Govs. Rell and Lamont.
(Opinion) I am not looking forward to the next 14 months in the world of politics. That’s how long we have until the 2024 presidential election, which is looking like a rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. The shouting about Hunter Biden, Georgia election interference and everything else is only going to become more shrill the closer we get to November 2024. Can’t politics be a little less confrontational, and a little more civil?
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Frank Redente, Jr. (second from left) at the polls with supporters on Tuesday.
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Morris Cove Alder Sal DeCola (right): "It was a good fight. The people spoke."
A 12-year Fair Haven incumbent has officially lost his seat on the Board of Alders, while a 12-year Morris Cove alder hung onto his seat by a thread in a race that came down to absentee ballots.
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Sep 12, 2023 8:26 pm
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Local 33 Yale grad union members at Elicker's primary election night party at BAR.
Mayor Elicker: “We won every single ward by a large, large margin."
(Updated) Mayor Justin Elicker crushed challenger Liam Brennan by more than a 2‑to‑1 margin in Tuesday’s Democratic mayoral primary, taking in 5,503 votes to Brennan’s 2,280 and winning every ward citywide in an election that saw roughly a 23 percent turnout.
The night’s big upset was in Fair Haven’s Ward 15, where challenger Frank Redente, Jr. defeated incumbent Alder Ernie Santiago by nearly a 2‑to‑1 margin. And in Morris Cove’s Ward 18, incumbent Alder Sal DeCola narrowly prevailed against challenger Susan Campion by a margin of only 34 votes.
Note: Because roughly 120 voters in the six wards with contested alder races filled out the part of the ballot pertaining to the alder race but not the mayoral race, the vote totals on the right side of this table -- which reflect all votes cast in Tuesday's election -- do not correspond exactly with the vote totals for the mayoral candidates, as displayed on the left side of the chart.
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Sep 12, 2023 3:59 pm
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Star Gilliams (center) with Harris & Tucker pollsters Memori Jones, Kauren Gaines, Shamar Sheppard at Lincoln-Bassett in Newhallville: "I'm concerned about what happens to this neighborhood."
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Erica Rodriguez and Isiah Miller, side by side, but for different candidates, on Chatham Street in Fair Haven.
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Sam Tolkin, with 3-year-old Oliver, on Townsend Ave in Morris Cove: Brennan's "got the chutzpah to say how important education is.”
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Barbara Dozier, at Roberto Clemente in the Hill: "It's always important to vote."
(Updated) Shamar Sheppard peered up at Jazmine Williamson, a clipboard and pencil in hand. “Did you vote today?” he asked. “Who did you vote for?”
Yale first-year Zachary: Leaning Elicker because "the experience answer was compelling."
Mayor Justin Elicker’s four years of experience leading the city through Covid and a nationwide rise in gun violence earned him the vote of at least one new-to-New Haven Yale undergraduate — as mayoral challenger Liam Brennan sought to distinguish himself from his incumbent opponent by arguing that he has the vision to make local government work more quickly and with a clearer purpose.
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Sep 11, 2023 8:50 am
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Mayor Justin Elicker (center) surrounded by top Connecticut elected officials at Saturday's rally.
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Liam Brennan at the doors on Sunday with West Rock Ave resident Tim Dagradi.
Elected officials from across Connecticut descended on Whalley Avenue to rally behind Mayor Justin Elicker, while Liam Brennan hit the doors in Westville to get out the vote for his mayoral challenger campaign — in a rush of political organizing in the final weekend before Tuesday’s Democratic primary elections.
A view inside the Church of Scientology-owned 949 Whalley.
A rundown, tax-exempt former department store that has been owned by the Church of Scientology for 20 years crept across ward lines to inspire a debate among Lower Westville Democratic alder candidates about eminent domain, lawsuit “PTSD,” and what on earth the city should do with recalcitrant land-banking property owners.
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Sep 8, 2023 8:56 am
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Mayor Elicker (right) with Reelection Campaign Manager Shad Wojciechowski.
Mayor Justin Elicker has secured a spot on the November general election ballot regardless of whether or not he wins Tuesday’s Democratic primary — thanks to the endorsement of the Working Families Party.
(Updated with further comments from Alder Sal DeCola) One evening in late February, Morris Cove Alder Sal DeCola crashed his car into a neighbor’s parked vehicle on Hervey Street — and then drove away.
Now, less than a week before DeCola faces a political challenger in the Democratic primary, the incident has resurfaced on social media and police are investigating a new anonymous Internal Affairs complaint alleging that the alder received favorable treatment from neighborhood cops at the time.
Elicker with Public Works Union members Wednesday night.
Elicker listens to both praise and concerns from public works employees following the public endorsement.
Public works union members gathered in the shade of Dover Beach Park to take a break from sweeping streets in sweltering heat — and to endorse two-term incumbent Mayor Justin Elicker as the best candidate to keep the city clean and safe and its employees paid and protected.
A tent on the Green in late August: On which public lands, if any, should homeless people be allowed to camp?
Two candidates for mayor and two candidates for Westville alder waded into an ongoing homelessness crisis as they sought to answer the same question posed on different nights by different debate moderators to different candidates running for different local elected offices.
The question: What should the city do when people who are living outdoors refuse to go to homeless shelters and choose instead to camp on public land?
Liam Brennan and Mayor Justin Elicker on stage Tuesday.
The city’s two Democratic mayoral candidates sat side by side on stage and agreed on policy — but split on leadership experience, strategy, and vision.
Camille Ansley and Alder Sal Punzo, ready for Ward 17 Democratic primary.
A first-term Annex alder and retired longtime local educator is seeking another two years in office to focus on cleaner parks, slower traffic, and better schools — while his Democratic primary challenger wants to “give a voice to the Annex” after her years of advocacy for her former home neighborhood of Cedar Hill.
Mayor Justin Elicker and former legal aid attorney Liam Brennan will take the stage for a Democracy Fund-hosted debate on Tuesday, one week before the city’s Democratic primary election.
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Sep 1, 2023 1:00 pm
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These redistricted ward boundaries will govern the upcoming elections.
The office of the state’s top election official has decided not to challenge New Haven’s plans to conduct the upcoming primary and general elections according to newly-redistricted ward maps — despite maintaining that alders should have put the new maps into effect at least 90 days before the primary.
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Michael Nutter: Goldenberg has "the capacity, he has the intellect, the drive, the focus, the commitment that I look for in folks looking to run for office."
Former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter took a 5:15 a.m. Amtrak to New Haven to grab a cup of orange juice and talk politics at East Rock Market, survey the transit hub-adjacent desolation of Church Street South, and throw his support behind his former student’s run for mayor.
Streater, with letter for the Secretary of the State seeking a ruling that "Mr. Trump is ineligible to run for the office of United States President and should not be permitted on any ballot in the State of Connecticut."
A Dixwell/Newhallville alder and a local civil rights lawyer have teamed up to formally ask Connecticut’s top election official to bar Donald Trump from appearing on next year’s presidential primary and general election ballots, given the former president’s role in stoking the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Elijah Ratcliffe (right), with Goldenberg: “I just can’t rock with the Democrats or the Republicans.”
Mayoral challenger Tom Goldenberg secured a second spot on November’s general election ballot, after the Republican nominee won the unanimous backing of a local Independent Party caucus.
Abdussabur, Lee, and a table full of campaign-annotated petition pages.
Mayoral challenger Shafiq Abdussabur doubled down on his critique of the registrar of voters office for “gross inconsistencies” in its review, and subsequent rejection, of hundreds of his campaign’s Democratic primary petition signatures — even as he said he won’t appeal a state judge’s dismissal of his ballot-access lawsuit.
Judge Doyle: "With voting already having begun and election day approaching, the Purcell principle is applicable to the present case."
A state judge has dismissed mayoral challenger Shafiq Abdussabur’s lawsuit trying to press his way onto the Sept. 12 Democratic primary ballot — on the grounds that the first absentee ballots have already been cast, the election is therefore underway, and changing which candidates are participating now would run “the risk of voter confusion.”
