Take That, Bridgeport!
by | Nov 18, 2010 9:02 am | Comments (4)
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At a state-mandated recount of votes cast on Nov. 2 in New Haven’s Annex neighborhood, auditors Wednesday came up with a perfect match — and an idea for change.
Campaign 2010
Payback Time
by | Nov 12, 2010 8:07 am | Comments (31)
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Future buds? Malloy and DeStefano share a stage at this weeks “New Haven Promise” schools event.
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Hopkins: “New Haven needs to be heard.”
The city that gave Gov.-Elect Dan Malloy his margin of victory knows what it wants in return. The list might surprise those familiar with campaign IOUs.
Foley Concedes
by | Nov 8, 2010 3:02 pm | Comments (9)
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(Updated: 4:26 p.m.) The Republicans want more answers about voting irregularities in last week’s gubernatorial election, but their candidate, Tom Foley, won’t drag it out.
Foley: "Let's Just
Take Our Time"
by | Nov 5, 2010 6:10 pm | Comments (24)
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(Updated) Nearly three days after polls closed, Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz announced Friday evening that Democrat Dan Malloy beat Republican Tom Foley to the governor’s seat by 5,637 votes. Foley’s campaign, however, said he still wasn’t satisfied with the accuracy of the “ever-changing” count.
Bungled To The End, Tally Goes To Malloy
by | Nov 5, 2010 8:48 am | Comments (23)
Election worker Patricia Howard posts the “final” numbers.
(Updated) An all-night recount gave Democrat Dan Malloy a 13.000-vote lead in Bridgeport in the election for governor and 5,000 statewide — enough to give him the job. Yet even after an “official” announcement Friday morning, voting registrars were still making adjustments to the tally.
Now It's "Not Imminent"
by | Nov 4, 2010 11:03 pm | Comments (42)
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(Updated) Over the objections of the Tom Foley for Governor Campaign, Amy Espinosa cut the seal to a previously undisclosed bag of ballots at 9 p.m. Thursday, and, two days after polls closed, a team of tired Bridgeport poll workers started counting. The fate of Connecticut’s suddenly nuclear election for governor hung in the balance.
A New Machine Swung Into Action
by | Nov 4, 2010 7:23 am | Comments (37)
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Inside the Sylvan Avenue vote-pulling command post Tuesday.
New Haven’s Democratic machine sat out Tuesday’s gubernatorial election — as a team of independent organizers stepped in and cranked out a stunning margin that appears to have helped elect the party’s first Connecticut governor in 24 years.
Official Results In:
Malloy Took City By 18K
by | Nov 4, 2010 7:16 am | Comments (12)
(Originally published 5 p.m. Wednesday.) Twenty hours after the polls closed, the city’s registrar of voters released election results showing Democrat Dan Malloy blowing his Republican opponent out of the water by 18,613 votes in New Haven.
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Foley: Show Me The Numbers
by | Nov 3, 2010 1:51 pm | Comments (19)
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Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz, left. Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley, right.
In a surprise on-air encounter, Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley confronted Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewiciz Wednesday for declaring a winner without having official numbers.
Governor’s Race Map
by | Nov 3, 2010 1:32 pm | Comments (0)
Dan Malloy and Tom Foley waged one of the tightest gubernatorial elections in recent memory, with the final result coming down to only a few thousand votes. At this time Malloy seems to be the unofficial winner, though major questions remain. So, how did all this unfold? The election map here, assembled from unofficial AP reports, has some of the answers. (Note: there are no results available to me at this time for New Fairfield, Oxford and Ridgefield, those areas are blank on the map.)
“Unofficial” Governor-Elect Starts Transition
by | Nov 3, 2010 12:49 pm | Comments (40)
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Malloy with transition chiefs Wyman and Bannon.
(Updated 5 p.m.) Democrat Dan Malloy is the “unofficial” winner of the governor’s race, Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz declared Wednesday, as Republicans insisted that Malloy hasn’t yet won. New Haven finally produced its official election results after 4 p.m., as Malloy was on TV already announcing his appointments for leaders of his transition team. Republican Tom Foley named transition chiefs, too.
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Rosa Returns To A
House Transformed
by | Nov 3, 2010 12:33 am | Comments (10)
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As New Haven U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro coasted to an 11th term, she expressed cautious optimism about working in a House of Representatives newly taken over by Republicans — if GOP leaders are willing to compromise.
Smith Wins In East Rock
by | Nov 2, 2010 8:24 pm | Comments (30)
(Updated at midnight.) After absentee ballots were counted Tuesday, Matt Smith widened a margin of victory in a close race to fill the city’s only open aldermanic seat.
Blumenthal Beats McMahon; Women Doomed Her
by | Nov 2, 2010 7:38 pm | Comments (35)
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Linda McMahon voting on Tuesday.
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Holly Jermyn (at the polls with daughter Hera): McMahon’s famous ad with two women in an SUV “made women seem like idiots.”
(Updated 8:10 p.m.) Despite spending more than $40 million, Republican Linda McMahon Tuesday failed to stop Democrat Richard Blumenthal from becoming the state’s new U.S. Senator — because she couldn’t persuade women like Ann Cresswell to vote for her.
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Ballot Scanner Breaks
by | Nov 2, 2010 5:01 pm | Comments (3)
Voters in the busy polling station at Edgewood School faced a choice mid-afternoon Tuesday: Hope somebody scans in your ballot later, or stick around for a while to see for yourself.
Chaos At East Rock Polls
by | Nov 2, 2010 11:54 am | Comments (32)
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Registrar Ferrucci consults poll workers Rozalind Shaw, Beth Lyons.
A dozen or more voters went home without casting their ballots as crowds overwhelmed poll workers at Wilbur Cross High School Tuesday.
Where To Vote;
What's At Stake
by | Nov 2, 2010 8:08 am | Comments (5)
New Haven could have an outsized role Tuesday in determining the state’s political future as voters head to the polls — that is, if voters do head out to the polls.
It’s All About Turnout
by | Nov 2, 2010 8:01 am | Comments (5)
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Union vote-pullers check charts for Tuesday’s operation.
As Rosa DeLauro did a last-minute tarantella at Bella Vista, New Haven Democrats were working on their own moves to try to deliver the votes that could make the difference Tuesday in electing Connecticut’s next governor and senator.
Candidate: Pay The Health Middleman Less
by | Nov 1, 2010 11:09 am | Comments (22)
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Outside an East Rock home that held an opponent’s campaign sign, Jessica Holmes made a pitch to reject City Hall’s plan to strip city worker’s benefits, and offer a different plan to save health care dollars — targeting $3.4 million that goes to insurance company middlemen.
Campaign's Endgame
Launched In New Haven
by | Oct 31, 2010 10:25 am | Comments (2)
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Malloy with canvassers at Whalley Avenue headquarters.
Democrat Dan Malloy roused his army of canvassers before they hit the street, and Republican Tom Foley snagged an unexpected Democratic endorsement, as the too-close-to-call governor’s race landed in New Haven at the start of the final crucial weekend of campaigning.
WWE Faithful Vote For The Bombshells
by | Oct 31, 2010 10:03 am | Comments (32)
The “Divas” get ready to rumble.
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Wade Barrett held Randy Orton in a headlock.
They roared as “Triple H” — U.S. Senate hopeful Linda McMahon’s son-in-law — pounded his opponent in the ring. They cheered as her husband Vince urged them to wear their World Wrestling Entertainment T‑shirts to the polls on Tuesday. They whooped and hollered for the busty “Divas” who stomped their rival hussies. Then the diehards of World Wrestling nation filed out of the arena — some of them, at least, promising to vote for the candidate herself on Tuesday.
Can He Win Without A No-Tax Pledge?
by | Oct 29, 2010 7:28 am | Comments (22)
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As his opponent took a no-new-taxes pledge — and pulled even in the polls — Democrat Dan Malloy brought his gubernatorial campaign to the lunch-cart crowd by the hospital, determined to defend two unpopular positions with more than sound bites.
Unions Go Independent In East Rock Race
by | Oct 28, 2010 8:12 am | Comments (38)
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As union organizers citywide get out the vote for Democrats for Tuesday’s elections, they’re working against the party candidate in New Haven’s one hotly contested local race.
In Fair Haven, Blumenthal Beckons Base
by | Oct 27, 2010 7:38 am | Comments (20)
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Dick Blumenthal brought two members of Congress into Grand Avenue’s El Jibaro barbershop to help him deliver a message in two languages: voters in Democrats’ urban strongholds have a stake in what happens next Tuesday.
DeLauro Helps Blumenthal Woo Women
by | Oct 25, 2010 11:04 am | Comments (11)
When she heard a plea from a powerful female Democrat to help prevent Linda McMahon from becoming Connecticut’s first female U.S. senator, Claudia Kay hit the phones — and helped widen one of this campaign season’s more curious gender gaps.