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World Wrestling Entertainment is hold a "fan appreciation day" at the XL Center in Hartford on Oct. 30. Some of the company's biggest stars -- John Cena, Randy Orton, Seamus, ""With its headquarters...
View ArticleHaddam school board member who questioned Darwin's teaching is running for...
Remember Chester Harris, the Republican school board member from Haddam who believes schools ought to offer alternatives to Darwin's teachings on evolution? He's now running for the state House of...
View ArticleThe bane of the videotape
Just 10 days ago, Linda McMahon spokesman Ed Patru titled one of his well-written daily missives to reporters "Videotape Evidence: The Bane of Dick Blumenthal's Existence.'' But the tape making news...
View ArticleIt's Official: Rahm Emanuel Is Leaving The White House To Run For Mayor Of...
It's not much of a secret any more, but White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is leaving Washington to return to his hometown in order to run for mayor of Chicago. The White House released the...
View ArticleThe First Women of the 2nd District
The Courant's Rinker Buck reports: Granted, it was a slow news day, but Connecticut journalists really were excited Friday morning when they received an email blast from the Janet Peckinpaugh...
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Triple H joins his mother-in-law's U.S. Senate campaign in Fairfield tomorrow
Linda McMahon Come meet my son-in-law Paul Levesque (aka Triple H) before door knocking in Fairfield tomorrow morning! He'll be at the Fairfield Republican Victory HQ (map: http://bit.ly/ctazcm) at...
View ArticleBob Englehart On The Increasingly Tight U.S. Senate Race
Hartford Courant cartoonist Bob Englehart weighs in on the increasingly tight race for the U.S. Senate between Democrat Richard Blumenthal and Republican Linda McMahon....
View ArticleLocal and late-breaking: Minimum wage controversy finds its way into Richard...
The "profits before people" line has been in wide circulation among the Blumernthal camp for a few weeks now but the ad also makes an allusion to yesterday's hubbub over the minimum wage.
View ArticleDSCC slams McMahon in new ad
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is running a new ad on behalf of Richard Blumenthal that slams his Republican opponent, Linda McMahon.
View ArticleState Rep. John Rigby Working In Afghanistan During Campaign; Facing William...
The Republicans have only 37 members in the state House of Representatives, and they are fighting this fall for every seat they can get. So it is a bit unusual that one of the 37 - state Rep. John B....
View ArticleCheshire Murder Trial: Dannel Malloy Opposes Death Penalty; Tom Foley, Tom...
As the Cheshire murder trial is headed to the jury, the death penalty has once again moved into the spotlight in Connecticut. In the hotly contested race for governor, Democrat Dannel Malloy remains...
View ArticleOctober surprise?
The McMahon campaign says it has "troubling new video" of Democrat Richard Blumenthal "lying about military service."Campaign aide Shawn McCoy announced the news on Twitter tonight, less than 24 hours...
View ArticleSEIU Spending $400,000 To Help Democrat Dannel Malloy, Others In 30 Days;...
One of the state's largest unions will be spending $400,000 to target minority voters in the state's cities over the next four weeks to help Democrat Dannel Malloy in the governor's race. The Service...
View ArticleNew McMahon TV ad hits Blumenthal on Vietnam
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon is airing a new TV ad that hits Democratic opponent Richard Blumenthal on his misstatements about his military service.The 30-second spot, which begins...
View ArticleMerrick to Richard: "Don't think it...throw."
Rick Green caught up with Mystic businessman Merrick Alpert, Richard Blumenthal's one-time opponent for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination.What does Alpert think Blumenthal should do in tonight's...
View ArticlePatru: Timing of new ad has "very little" to do with tonight's debate
Republican U.S, Senate Linda McMahon's well-oiled campaign machinery has made it a habit of perfectly timing their attacks against democrat Richard Blumenthal. The initial Vietnam video surfaced just...
View ArticleSetting the record straight on WWE's DC lobbying efforts
Forget Girls Gone Wild -- the most damaging story to Linda McMahon's campaign may have been the one in Congressional Quarterly-Roll Call last week about McMahon's misstatements on her company's D.C....
View ArticleCT Capitol Report poll shows CT-SEN not as close as it appears
Just hours before Democrat Richard Blumenthal and Republican Linda McMahon are set to square off in a debate, a new poll shows the race is not as close as last week's Quinnipiac survey found. The poll,...
View ArticleCheshire Murder Trial: Steven Hayes Guilty Of Three Murders Of Petit Family;...
In a relatively swift verdict in a high-profile trial, Steven Hayes was found guilty Tuesday on 16 of 17 charges, including the murder of three members of the Petit family at their home in Cheshire in...
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