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Tim Herbst in the Shubert Theater post-debate spin room during the primary campaign.
When Tim Herbst knocked on doors on the shoreline this fall to help a Republican state legislative candidate, he learned that Democrats had beaten him to it. Three times.
Continue reading ‘Tim Herbst: Republicans Need A Ground Game’
by | Dec 6, 2018 8:47 am | Comments (10)
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Joe Markley (center) with State Sen. Len Suzio and Tom Scott at the 2018 state GOP convention.
The advice came from Virginia. It bombed in Connecticut.
Continue reading ‘Markley: Out-of-Staters Misread Connecticut’
by | Nov 29, 2018 5:26 pm | Comments (2)
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Democratic Registrar of Voters Shannel Evans helping to register voters on Election Day.
New Haven already knew that Ned Lamont crushed Bob Stefanowski in the city in the Nov. 6 gubernatorial election. Now people can find out just how many votes those candidates— and all other candidates on the ballot that day — received in each polling district, broken down by machine votes, absentee votes, and same-day-registration votes.
by | Nov 13, 2018 9:00 am | Comments (11)
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State Reps. Dillon & Porter at WNHH FM.
“Team Porter” navigated a newish app to turn out suburban votes. Now Connecticut might get paid family leave, a $15 hourly minimum wage — and maybe even electronic highway tolls.
by | Nov 9, 2018 2:55 pm | Comments (20)
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Registrar Shannel Evans processes same-day registrations as voters (below) wait four hours to cast ballots.
As darkness fell on New Haven Thursday night, citizens rallied on the Green against perceived threats to democracy in the wake of this week’s election.
A block away, in a locked basement bunker in the 200 Orange St. municipal office building with the door window papered over, the election wasn’t over yet.
by | Nov 8, 2018 1:10 pm | Comments (2)
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Achievement First debate team on Wednesday.
The midterm elections left debate team members at Achievement First Amistad High School cold – and questioning their party allegiances.
Continue reading ‘“He’s Playing Both Sides ... Not Doing A Good Job At Either”’
by | Nov 7, 2018 4:00 pm | Comments (4)
Steele checks in with vote pullers Alex Perry, Sr. and Alex Perry, Jr. in the basement of Varick church.
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Ann Robinson with pastor and vote-puller Kelcy Steele.
When New Haveners like Ann Robinson produced a 23,278-vote city victory margin Tuesday to elect Connecticut’s next governor, they weren’t thinking as much about Ned Lamont. They were thinking about Donald Trump.
And in Robinson’s case, about Greenville, N.C.
by | Nov 7, 2018 3:58 pm | Comments (25)
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Some of the hundreds waiting four hours to vote Tuesday.
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Democratic Registrar of Voters Shannel Evans assembles hand-count team at 1:42 a.m. at Edgewood School.
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Merrill: No excuses.
Hours after most Connecticut communities had reported their election results, New Haven’s leading voting official arrived at Edgewood School after midnight Wednesday with a team of election workers and began counting 1,968 ballots. By hand.
by | Nov 7, 2018 2:01 pm | Comments (3)
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(Updated) Like other New Haveners heading out of town to try to propel a blue wave this election season, New Haven journalist and filmmaker Steve Hamm traveled across state lines to campaign for New York Congressional candidate Antonio Delgado. Here’s what Hamm has to say about his experience campaigning for the New York Democratic challenger:
Even among died-in-the-wool Democrats, misinformation about immigrants stirs up fear and resentment. That’s one scary insight I picked up while canvassing for Antonio Delgado, a Black Latino who is running for Congress in New York’s 19th District — in the mid-Hudson Valley.
It wasn’t bad enough to decide the outcome of the election.In a victory for decency, enough white voters overlooked race to elect a black man in the whitest congressional district in New York.
Continue reading ‘To Just Enough People, Race Didn’t Matter’
by | Nov 7, 2018 9:32 am | Comments (15)
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Kingmaker Mauro: “I’m just a fat guy from the Elm City with the best team in the state. Maybe the country.”
(Updated) Ned Lamont will be the next governor of Connecticut, thanks to New Haven.
Voters here gave Lamont a 23,278-vote victory margin — which will continue to grow as more votes are counted — over Republican Bob Stefanowski, the largest single vote total in the state.
Stefanowski conceded to the Greenwich Democrat on Wednesday morning, even as New Haven continued counting its ballots after a disastrous election day muddled by broken voting machines.
Continue reading ‘Stefanowski Concedes In Governor’s Race; New Haven Puts Lamont Over The Top’
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Part of the voting traffic jam at City Hall to register.
Double breakdowns in New Haven’s elections Tuesday have thrown the city’s vote-count into chaos — and prompted Republican gubernatorial Bob Stefanowski to go to court to segregate some of the city’s ballots.
by | Nov 7, 2018 12:45 am | Comments (4)
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Republican Tad Bistor and Democrat Ross Gionfriddo discuss the challenged ballots.
Challenged ballots, waiting to be counted.
As 64 New Haveners cast controversial votes after 8 p.m. Tuesday, a Republican attorney was on hand taking their photos and preparing an affidavit.
by | Nov 6, 2018 9:14 pm | Comments (3)
Note: These results are from machine tallies. They do not include absentee ballots.
Second note: Still no official word from Ward 2, where a machine broke.
Third note: The tally from Ward 4 is partial: One of two machines broke there.
Fourth note: The tally from Ward 24 is partial because the print out was only legible for some of the candidates but not all.
Meanwhile, here (in the video from Thomas Breen) was the scene in Ward 22’s voting spot, in Dixwell, where three out of four machines were broken.
by | Nov 6, 2018 8:51 am | Comments (9)
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Rosa DeLauro at Monday night’s get-out-the-vote rally.
Party stalwarts cheer DeLauro at Betsy Ross Parish House.
Dancing across the stage with her fist raised above a shock of purple-dyed hair, New Haven’s 75-year-old Congresswoman taught veteran and neophyte Connecticut Democrats alike how to send campaigners into the electoral battle of their lives.
by | Nov 6, 2018 8:36 am | Comments (11)
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Mayor Toni Harp at Sunday evening’s get-out-the-vote rally at Bella Vista.
Mayor Toni Harp supports more state funding for transportation. She doesn’t want to create a “lockbox” to do it.
by | Nov 5, 2018 1:51 pm | Comments (24)
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WALLINGFORD — Not everyone in the room for Republican Bob Stefanowski’s get-out-the-vote rally Sunday voted for President Donald Trump. At least two of more than 400 in attendance are members of the Democratic Party.
by | Nov 5, 2018 8:45 am | Comments (6)
State Rep. Robyn Porter helps serve pizza during Sunday night’s get-out-the-vote rally.
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Lieutenant governor candidate Susan Bysiewicz works the crowd.
Donald Trump wasn’t physically present at the Bella Vista senior complex in the Heights on Sunday night.
But at an annual New Haven pre-election ritual, the Republican president was at the center of nearly every pitch made by a dozen Democratic candidates seeking local, state, and national offices.
by | Nov 5, 2018 8:29 am | Comments (2)
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Sarah Ganong submits petitions to City Clerk Michael Smart to qualify for the 2017 municipal ballot.
(Opinion) My name is Sarah Ganong. Folks in New Haven might recognize me from last year’s ballot for mayor, when I ran to secure future municipal ballot access for the Working Families Party on Row C. I only needed 1 percent of the vote to get it done, but the remarkable, grassroots support of our community brought nearly eight times that. I was inspired again and again by the excitement I heard about bringing Row C and the Working Families Party to New Haven elections.
by | Nov 2, 2018 1:37 pm | Comments (6)
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Democratic State Rep. Roland Lemar.
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Republican challenger Eric Mastroianni, Sr.
Force Connecticut suburbs to allow for multi-family, affordable housing. Invest in faster rail service between New Haven and New York. Regionalize school systems to eliminate duplicative services.
And don’t repeal the income tax. Raise it, at least for high-income families.
by | Nov 2, 2018 1:00 pm | Comments (3)
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Democrat DeLauro (above); Republican Cadena (below).
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Hearing his opponent interviewed on radio, Angel Cadena pulled his truck off the road, logged onto Facebook, and shared the interview — to make sure his supporters tuned in.
by | Nov 2, 2018 8:01 am | Comments (2)
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Griebel in New Haven Thursday.
Challenging his Democratic opponent for urban votes on an urban issue, independent gubernatorial candidate Oz Griebel came to the New Haven Green to call for “ending mass incarceration” and expunging criminal records sooner.
by | Nov 2, 2018 8:00 am | Comments (3)
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Bull & Swine co-owner Albert Greenwood (in costume) Matthew Corey (not in Halloween costume).
A Hartford bartender walks into a New Haven bar on Halloween night.
He’s not there to serve drinks, or to judge the costume contest. He’s there to run for U.S. Senate.
by | Oct 31, 2018 4:40 pm | Comments (7)
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Ned Lamont makes the rounds at Wednesday afternoon’s meet-and-greet with Dixwell seniors.
High taxes. Vacant buildings. Gun violence at churches and at schools. And looming cuts to social services for the elderly.
Those were a few of the myriad concerns that seniors from the Dixwell/Newhallville Senior Center presented to Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ned Lamont during a Wednesday afternoon campaign stop at Bethel AME Church at 255 Goffe St.
Continue reading ‘Lamont Promises Dixwell Seniors Lower Property Taxes’
by | Oct 31, 2018 7:56 am | Comments (4)
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Kenneth Reveiz of Greater New Haven Vote 2018 GOTV: Efforts have been tough but worth it.
A woman at the Fair Haven Community Health Care clinic on Grand Avenue had a question: How can she get her kids to go vote?
by | Oct 30, 2018 4:29 pm | Comments (0)
Bysiewicz encounters … could it be? … another Natalino!
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Guide Natalino with the candidate;house at rear belonged to Natalino’s father Michael.
If you’re a candidate door-knocking on a particular street in Fair Haven Heights with someone named Natalino whose family has been there for 60 years … and if at least four houses on said street have Natalinos still in them and another half dozen get their driveways plowed by a Natalino during heavy snowstorms when the city is slow arriving … well, you’re fairly guaranteed a warm reception.