by | Aug 12, 2022 12:25 pm | Comments (0)
State Rep. Pat Dillon at WNHH FM.
The New York Mets are on a hot streak, winning 15 of their last 17 games.
Pat Dillon is on a hot streak, too, winning 19 of her last 19 campaigns for state representative.
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Erick Russell gives victory speech at Trinity Bar.
Stephanie Thomas (right) with state Democratic Party Executive Director Sarah Locke.
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Maritza Bond concedes to Secretary of State candidate Stephanie Thomas at Il Gabbiano on Long Wharf.
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Karen DuBois Walton concedes to treasurer candidate Erick Russell at Jazzy's Cabaret.
New Haven will have a candidate on the statewide ballot this November for the first time since 2006, now that Erick Russell has won Tuesday’s party primary for state treasurer
Continue reading ‘Democrats Tap New Haven's Russell For Treasurer, Thomas For Sec'y Of The State’
by | Aug 9, 2022 5:40 pm | Comments (1)
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Getting out the vote on Norton Pkwy.
A New Haven labor vote-puller had two hills to climb in Beaver Hills Tuesday as he sought to lure voters to the polls for an expected low-turnout Democratic Party primary: muggy weather that felt like nearly 100 degrees, and lack of public interest in two intraparty contests for lesser known statewide offices.
His strategy to confront both challenges: Focus local, local, local.
And offer an air-conditioned car ride to the polls if need be.
by | Aug 8, 2022 8:47 pm | Comments (2)
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Bond at Monday's rally.
“When they say we can’t make it out the hood … I’m a product of that!”
With those words, Maritza Bond tapped into her Fair Haven roots — as well as her wealth of organized labor support — to make a closing pitch to supporters to get out the vote for her bid for secretary of the state during Tuesday’s Democratic Party primary.
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by | Aug 8, 2022 12:00 pm | Comments (6)
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Team New Haven: Sec'y of state candidate Maritza Bond; treasurer hopefuls Karen DuBois-Walton, Erick Russell.
Fairfield County crew: Treasurer candidate Dita Bhargava, sec'y of state hopeful Stephanie Thomas.
(News analysis) New Haven versus Fairfield County.
The party establishment versus issue-activist networks.
Who has the best chance to win in a general election.
Who has better qualifications — or makes voters smile more.
Those are the stakes in Tuesday’s Democratic primary elections for state treasurer and secretary of the state, battles of personalities and power bases. Voters will have to wait to weigh in on the bigger questions — like how to run elections and best preserve democracy; how best to invest billions of state dollars — until the Nov. 8 general election, which will be a battle of ideas.
Continue reading ‘Tuesday Primaries Test Strength, Not Issues’
by | Aug 7, 2022 10:19 am | Comments (2)
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Ring One Boxing's Brian Clark, center, tells candidate Russell (left) and management team's Howard Boyd about a trouble bus stop.
Twenty years had passed since Nakia Dawson-Douglas last saw Erick Russell — until Friday evening, when he knocked on her door.
Dawson-Douglas had known Russell as the kid who worked at Fast Food Deli, his parents’ store, a neighborhood anchor.
Now Russell is a candidate for state treasurer — and he can count on Dawson-Douglas’s vote in Tuesday’s three-way Democratic primary.
by | Aug 5, 2022 3:37 pm | Comments (6)
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Secretary of the state candidate Maritza Bond talking jazz with Ross Collins while campaigning on Colony Road in advance of Tuesday's primary.
Ross Collins took a break from serenading Colony Road with his alto saxophone to talk jazz and politics with — and ultimately pledge his support for — the secretary of the state candidate who came knocking at his door.
by | Aug 4, 2022 11:51 am | Comments (6)
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State Sen. Martin Michael Looney at WNHH FM.
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Martin Francis Looney.
“It took a while, Dad,” Martin Michael Looney said to himself after the final vote was cast, “but we’re there.”
by | Aug 3, 2022 11:55 am | Comments (3)
The state plans to spend $35 million of federal pandemic-relief aid over the next three years on tuition assistance, faculty recruitment, and college-employer partnerships to build up the number of nurses and social workers working in Connecticut.
Continue reading ‘State Launches 3-Year, $35M "Health Horizons" Program’
by | Jul 26, 2022 9:48 pm | Comments (15)
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Klarides: Playing for both August and November.
Leora Levy: Aiming for the new base.
Can a Republican with crossover appeal still win a statewide primary — without burning bipartisan and moderate bonafides needed to appeal to voters in a general election?
That question hovered unspoken beneath the back-and-forth among candidates in a debate held in New Haven Tuesday night.
by | Jul 26, 2022 3:02 pm | Comments (0)
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Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz at the Q House Tuesday.
With a deadline looming days away, the mayor and lieutenant governor popped in to the Q House Tuesday to issue a plea to working families: “Don’t leave money on the table.” Apply for the state childcare tax rebate.
Continue reading ‘Families Urged To Apply For Childcare Tax Rebate Before Sunday Deadline’
by | Jul 25, 2022 12:16 pm | Comments (7)
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State Sen. Gary Winfield at Newhallville stop-violence fair.
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John Carlson, fellow GOP candidate Eric Mastroianni at WNHH FM.
To Gary Winfield, the job of state legislator is akin to a long-distance runner. He sees the finish line in the distance: Better public education. Humane prisons. Fairer policing. The legislator gets closer every year, step by step, methodically making gains along the way, keeping the ultimate goal in mind.
That record of veteran service is a reason the Newhallville Democrat gave for why he’s running this year for a sixth term as a state senator representing New Haven and West Haven.
That’s a reason John Carlson, a Hill Republican, gave for why he’s challenging Winfield this year for the 10th State Senate District seat: New Haven Democrats have been in power too long, without producing the right results, he argued.
Continue reading ‘Experience Helps? Or Hurts? Candidates Differ’
by | Jul 22, 2022 4:16 pm | Comments (2)
Friday afternoon's Zoom-held special SEEC meeting.
With hours to spare, Maritza Bond won approval Friday afternoon to receive $484,125 in public money to compete in the Aug. 9 Democratic primary for secretary of the state.
Continue reading ‘Maritza Bond's Public-Financing Grant Approved’
by | Jul 22, 2022 2:50 pm | Comments (3)
Ned Lamont announces bill in front of all-electric buses.
Gov. Ned Lamont inhaled the sweltering heat-wave air of the city with the country’s seventh-highest asthma prevalence — and touted a new state law aiming to make that air easier to breathe.
Continue reading ‘On Green, Lamont, Lawmakers Tout New Clean Air Act’
by | Jul 21, 2022 1:47 pm | Comments (0)
Two former state treasurers Thursday endorsed one of the candidates seeking to become a future state treasurer.
by | Jul 20, 2022 1:56 pm | Comments (2)
Karen DuBois-Walton will get her check.
Maritza Bond has one more chance to get hers.
Continue reading ‘DuBois-Walton's Public Financing Approved; Bond's Still On Hold’
by | Jul 18, 2022 4:08 pm | Comments (21)
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State Rep. Roland Lemar at WNHH FM.
Not many people at the state Capitol talked about traffic-light timing at this year’s session. But quietly, legislators took a big step toward calming drivers’ nerves — and clearing the air.
by | Jul 14, 2022 9:37 am | Comments (5)
At Wednesday's endorsement: Town Clerk Karimah Mickens, State Rep. Josh Elliott, State Sen. Cabrera, The Village leader Melissa Atterberry-Jones, candidate Stephanie Thomas, Hamden Mayor Lauren Garrett, and Hamden Legislative Council President Dominique Baez.
The Hamden political establishment has thrown its weight behind one of the two Democratic candidates for secretary of the state: Stephanie Thomas.
Mayor Lauren Garrett, State Sen. Jorge Cabrera, and State Rep. Joshua Elliott were among the town elected officials who endorsed Thomas Wednesday and accompanied her on a tour of small businesses and summer camps.
Continue reading ‘Top Hamden Pols Endorse Stephanie Thomas For Secretary Of The State’
by | Jul 14, 2022 9:16 am | Comments (2)
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Erick Russell accepting party nomination at May convention.
New Haven’s Erick Russell will receive $484,125 to help get out his message in his quest to become Connecticut’s next state treasurer.
by | Jun 30, 2022 3:19 pm | Comments (21)
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GOP guv candidate Stefanowski puts gas prices at center of campaign stops.
Stefanowski on "Dateline."
Bob Stefanowski is willing to discuss abortion and guns. But what he really wants to talk about? Gas prices and inflation.
by | Jun 27, 2022 9:19 am | Comments (2)
The state AFL-CIO bucked the Democratic Party establishment and endorsed Maritza Bond’s candidacy for secretary of the state.
by | Jun 21, 2022 6:01 pm | Comments (3)
Maritza Bond is preparing to ramp up her campaign staff and go full blast on media platforms now with an expected $400,000 cash infusion for her quest to become secretary of the state.
Continue reading ‘Bond: I Crossed The Public-Financing Threshold’
by | Jun 17, 2022 3:03 pm | Comments (14)
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Shafiq Abdussabur and Gov. Lamont at Brazi's lunch: 2 takes on a crisis.
Who needs a home in New Haven? Who can afford a home in New Haven? And whom should the state prioritize supporting with its housing policies and subsidies — biotech transplants or working-class first-time buyers?
Two different takes on those housing-focused questions came to the fore during a conversation among the governor, a top state housing official, and a now-former Beaver Hills alder.
Continue reading ‘Housing Q Reveals Upstairs-Downstairs Lenses’
by | Jun 16, 2022 2:08 pm | Comments (3)
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David Sepulveda donates the last $73 required for Bond to cross the $80k mark.
David Sepulveda wrote a check for $73 Wednesday night — and Maritza Bond hit a round number bringing her closer to public financing for her bid for secretary of the state.
After receiving a $73 donation from New Havener David Sepulveda, Maritza Bond, New Haven director of health and candidate for state secretary of state, has now crossed $80,000 in donations for her campaign.
Continue reading ‘Bond Breaks 80K In Secretary Of The State Quest’
by | Jun 9, 2022 5:02 pm | Comments (8)
Darryl Brackeen and Pat Dillon.
Darryl Brackeen Jr. won’t be mounting a Democratic primary challenge for a state representative seat after all, but he’s still eyeing the seat. He is now turning his campaign sights to November, after failing to gather enough qualified petition signatures to force an August Democratic primary against State Rep. Pat Dillon.
Continue reading ‘Brackeen's State Rep Primary Petition Drive Comes Up Short; Eyes General Election’