by | Oct 14, 2020 11:42 am | Comments (3)
(Opinion.) Voters in Connecticut deserve a competent state elections system and contemporary voting options available elsewhere, like early voting and absentee ballot tracking.
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by | Oct 5, 2020 9:22 am | Comments (7)
Canvassers including Feldman (below) at Dixwell HQ kick-off.
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Abby Feldman is about to move to Philadelphia for October to knock on doors for Joe Biden — and she’s a little nervous about uprooting her life for a month.
But if there was ever an election to temporarily pull up stakes for, this upcoming presidential race is it, she said. “The time is now.”
by | Sep 15, 2020 9:52 pm | Comments (7)
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Gloria La Riva at rally on the Green.
A presidential candidate campaigned in New Haven Tuesday afternoon with an improvised speaker list — inviting homeless people walking by to tell their story.
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by | Aug 21, 2020 11:43 am | Comments (7)
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At Dunkin’ Donuts Park in person for the virtual DNC watch party.
Below is the fourth and final DNC 2020 diary entry submitted by Westville Alder Darryl Brackeen, Jr., who is a delegate at this year’s national party convention. The convention took place almost entirely online due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Click here, here and here to read the first three entries.
Continue reading ‘DNC Diary: Get In “Good Trouble,” And Vote’
by | Aug 20, 2020 3:29 pm | Comments (13)
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Al Alston, a Wallingford postal worker, at Thursday’s protest.
A steep slowdown in mail processing isn’t just the subject of a red-hot national political debate for Al Alston.
The Wallingford postal worker has seen that reality play out first hand at the station he works at in the New Haven suburbs — where he’s seen massive backlogs caused by two mail sorting machines dismantled and left unused, as well as by his fellow mail carriers losing overtime pay.
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Oliver Augustine and Kanesha Crenshaw staff the Ward 25 Republican check-in table at Edgewood School: 16-hour shift, only 22 actual Republicans showing up.
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Top row: Alder Adam Marchand, Democratic Co-Chair Janis Underwood outside Edgewood School Ward 25 polls; inside, poll worker Trish Welfare came prepared with PPE. Bottom row: Rose DeMatteo, Andrea Offutt-Miller and Selina Hobby begin tabulating absentee ballots at 200 Orange St. after noon on Tuesday.
(Updated) Joe Biden and Donald Trump will have to wait at least two days to find out precisely how many votes they won in New Haven Tuesday against candidates who aren’t running against them for president.
Meanwhile, platoons of poll workers spent 16 hours at 40 polling stations in town where they mostly outnumbered the people who entered to vote — when any voters were present at all.
Continue reading ‘Poll Workers Outnumber Voters; 4,700+ Vote Absentee; Some Ballots Never Came’
by | Aug 10, 2020 9:53 am | Comments (16)
Daniel Garcia helps dad submit ballot at box set up on Orange.
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Jerry Poole casts his ballot a second time; Democrats and Republicans can still cast absentee ballots Monday outside 200 Orange St.
Jerry Poole ended up voting twice — to make sure his ballot was counted once.
by | Jul 3, 2020 6:04 pm | Comments (1)
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Registrar Evans: Focus on keeping people safe.
New Haven voters who turn out for the Aug. 11 presidential primaries can expect to see some changes: Poll workers will wear protective gowns and masks. They will hold the door so voters don’t have to touch the handle. Someone will squirt sanitizer into their hands. Poll workers’ temperatures will be taken. Voters will have to maintain six feet distance from each other.
Continue reading ‘Safety Measures In Place For Primary Election’
by | Mar 6, 2020 2:43 pm | Comments (4)
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New Haven donors’ picks, in order: Elizabeth Warren, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Amy Klobuchar, and (in a distant fifth) Joe Biden.
Elizabeth Warren may no longer be running — but she still sits comfortably atop the list of presidential candidates to whom New Haveners have donated over the past year.
Hamden donors, meanwhile, have directed most of their contributions to Warren’s progressive erstwhile rival, Bernie Sanders.
by | Feb 10, 2020 1:06 pm | Comments (1)
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Tom Steyer: Good billionaire?
Concord, N.H.—Politically engaged billionaires who are committed to good deeds can use their incredible wealth to counter the civic harm done by other politically engaged billionaires who are only in it for themselves.
So argued a politically engaged billionaire who’s self-funding a longshot bid to become the Democratic nominee for president.
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by | Feb 9, 2020 11:39 pm | Comments (7)
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Klobuchar discusses Chicka Chicka Boom Boom with Joanna …
… then dives into some poutine.
Manchester, N.H.— Amy Klobuchar is having a moment, just in time for the first-in-the-nation presidential primary. A diner discussion with 6‑year-old Joanna Vachon and an SRO college rally showed how she is making connections with voters still looking for a candidate to support on Tuesday.
by | Feb 8, 2020 8:10 pm | Comments (3)
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Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders: Different views on “pro-life Democrats.”
Concord, N.H.—Is there room for “pro-life Democrats” in the Democratic Party of 2020?
Depends on whom you ask. The ascendant Midwestern moderate in the race for the party’s presidential nomination sees plenty of room for “future former Republicans.” The leading progressive candidate is not so sure.
by | Feb 8, 2020 7:59 pm | Comments (2)
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Supreme Suggestions (clockwise from top left): Yang: 18-year terms; Klobuchar: Cameras; Sanders: Rotate judges; Buttigieg: 15 on bench.
Attendees at Saturday’s forum.
Concord, N.H.—The Supreme Court is broken — politicized, co-opted by right-wing extremists, weighed down by lifetime appointees.
Democratic presidential candidate after candidate at a primary campaign forum here today agreed on that diagnosis. They differed on what the next president should do about it.
by | Jan 22, 2020 5:15 pm | Comments (7)
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Brotherhood of the Traveling Pants: New Haven’s Marty Dunleavy (right) with Hamden’s Walter Morton on the Biden trail.
Peterborough, N.H. — Marty Dunleavy wore a thick, baggy pair of dark-green plaid wool pants as he stood outside of Mary Maughan’s door. They were not stylish. But they did the job: They protected their wearer from an icy wind, as they have done in every presidential campaign since 2000.
by | Jan 17, 2020 2:56 pm | Comments (6)
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State Rep. Mike D’Agostino” There is a difference between a candidate and a catalyst.”
Mike D’Agostino is “feeling the Bern” — about the presidential race, and about how Connecticut goes about legalizing cannabis.
by | Jan 13, 2020 5:20 pm | Comments (7)
New Haven Sanders supporters at Manchester pre-canvass session.
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Hamden State Rep. Elliott hits trail for Warren.
Hooksett, N.H.— Four years ago, Joshua Elliott trudged through the snowbanks lining New Hampshire’s twisting roads in hopes of helping Bernie Sanders become the next U.S. President. Elliott and fellow campaigners then started a local revolution back home by electing him to Connecticut’s legislature.
Elliott was back knocking on New Hampshire doors Sunday — but this time for Elizabeth Warren, Sanders’ chief progressive opponent in the upcoming first-in-the-nation Democratic presidential primary.
Continue reading ‘Progressives’ Pitch: Movement vs. “Bulldog”’
by | Apr 18, 2019 7:45 am | Comments (10)
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Abrams at Woolsey Hall as part of a two-day conference on democracy.
Political superstar Stacey Abrams stopped by her alma mater to to deliver a warning: a failure to protect the vote is costing us our democracy and our standing in the world.
by | Jan 11, 2019 5:16 pm | Comments (17)
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U.S. Chris Murphy and Mayor Toni Harp call for an end to the government shutdown.
A longtime Federal Aviation Administration employee, who’s been working without pay to keep planes flying into Tweed-New Haven Airport, asked Congressional Republicans Friday to start doing their job and reopen the government.
by | Feb 21, 2017 9:05 am | Comments (12)
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Bassani pushes Perez; Winfield backs Ellison.
Looking to influence the future course of their party, New Haven’s Democratic Town Committee plans to endorse one of the leading candidates for national chairman in a battle that has revived the conflicting visions of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.
by | Jan 23, 2017 1:30 pm | Comments (16)
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That’s not fog on the Capitol streets.
Washington, D.C. — A crowd of around 150 protesters was midway through a chant of “No justice/ No Peace!/ No racist/ Police!” in the northwest quarter of the city when the sound of a cannon pierced the grey sky behind them.
Pink smoke filled the air. Another loud boom rang across Massachusetts Avenue. This time, people started running, pulling bandannas over their faces as they darted past mounted police.
by | Jan 20, 2017 9:00 pm | Comments (1)
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Protesters of all stripes took to the streets to resist the incoming administration.
They were Latino, black, U.S. citizens and the undocumented. They were LGBTQIA and people with disabilities. They were white allies and women, immigrants of all nationalities. They were of no religion and they were Muslim.
And at a protest that marched from City Hall and through downtown New Haven, they were all welcome.
Continue reading ‘Inauguration Day Strikers Show Solidarity’
by | Nov 11, 2016 3:10 pm | Comments (7)
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For the first time in recent memory — if not hundreds of years — New Haven’s city clerk still did not have a sheet of final ward-by-ward results in hand to certify and put in the public record on the Friday after a general election.
Continue reading ‘Unofficial Ward-By-Ward Presidential Election Results’
by | Nov 11, 2016 1:24 pm | Comments (21)
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A scene from Thursday night’s downtown rally.
(Opinion) —I am one of the 86 percent of New Haveners who voted for Hillary Clinton on Tuesday. I know many of you shared my progression of thought that day starting around 5 p.m. The election was in the bag. I would gather with close friends for dinner, a beer, and to watch our nation proudly reject the pouty, red-faced clown-candidate, along with the worldwide trend toward xenophobic nationalism. We would reaffirm that the United States is one of the most inclusive, welcoming, and — yes — moral countries in the world. As returns started to come in, that sense of triumph quickly turned to nervousness, anxiety, and disillusion.
by | Nov 10, 2016 9:20 am | Comments (7)
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A full 24 hours after the polls had closed and most of America had long reported official voting statistics, New Haven figured out how many of its citizens voted for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Short answer: A lot of them did.
Continue reading ‘It’s Official: Clinton Captured 86% Of City Vote’
by | Nov 9, 2016 3:07 pm | Comments (1)
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Washington and Grinberg.
Wednesday’s programs on WNHH radio examined the big question of the day — what just happened in Tuesday’s elections? — and offered some roadmaps (and road trips) for what to do next.