Cook moves CT-Sen. back to "Leans Dem"
Just a few weeks after rating the Connecticut U.S. Senate race a "toss up" in the wake of potentially damaging disclosures in the New York Times that Democrat Richard Blumenthal misrepresented his...
View ArticleColumnist Rick Green On Martha Dean; Facing Attorney Ross Garber In...
Hartford Courant columnist Rick Green weighs in on Martha Dean and the Second Amendment. Dean, an attorney from Avon, is facing Ross Garber, a veteran lawyer who represented the office of Gov. John G....
View ArticleBob Englehart On Dannel Malloy; Facing Ned Lamont In Democratic Gubernatorial...
Hartford Courant cartoonist Bob Englehart weighs in on former Stamford mayor Dannel Malloy, who is facing Greenwich cable television entrepreneur Ned Lamont in the Democratic gubernatorial primary on...
View ArticleEnfield graduation round up
Voices from around the web are weighing in on the Enfield graduation-First Cathedral-ACLU-Family Institute of Connecticut legal ruckus. Don Pesci at Connecticut Political Reporter: ""[I]t is a bit of a...
View ArticleRich Lowry on haberdashery and leather skirts
Dudchik asks whether Rich Lowry's scathing assesment of Linda McMahon's family business is some kind of signal to the GOP base that her candidacy is toxic. If it is some kind of veiled message, why...
View ArticleCCAG's Tom Swan, Reps. David McCluskey and Peter Tercyak Arrested In Nursing...
Two Democratic state legislators - Rep. David McCluskey of West Hartford and Rep. Peter Tercyak of New Britain - were arrested Tuesday outside a nursing home during a peaceful protest in which they...
View ArticleMartha Dean picks up a couple of endorsements
Both the Family Institute of Connecticut and Right Principles are backing Martha Dean, a Republican running for attorney general. "Martha recognizes that for our CT communities to thrive, the state's...
View ArticleMan bites dog; Healy praises DiNardo
State Democratic Chairwoman Nancy DiNardo is catching flak from some Democrats for her decision to participate in a fundraiser for the Boy Scouts, which has long been criticized for its policy toward...
View ArticleRell Signs Bill To Help Schools Install Seat Belts In Buses
Gov. M. Jodi Rell on Wednesday signed a bill that creates a state program to help school systems pay for equipping their school buses with lap-and-shoulder seat belts. The General Assembly passed the...
View ArticleRepublican Brickley Blasts Larson Over House Defeat Affecting Pratt Engine;...
Ann Brickley, the Republican convention-endorsed candidate for the congressional seat held by U.S. Rep. John B. Larson, D-1st District, criticized Larson Wednesday, saying that "as the number four...
View ArticleSimsbury Republican Oz Griebel Endorses Howard Baldwin's Efforts To Bring The...
Republican gubernatorial candidate Oz Griebel is backing the move by entrepreneur Howard Baldwin to bring back the Whalers to Hartford. The interim step involves generating further interest in ice...
View ArticleDannel Malloy Unveils Energy Plan; Calls For Reducing Energy Consumption By...
NEW BRITAIN - Saying that electricity deregulation has failed, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dannel Malloy called Wednesday for cutting statewide electric consumption by 15 percent within the next...
View ArticleRasmussen puts Blumenthal up by 20+ over McMahon
The Rasmussen survey of 500 Connecticut likely voters finds Richard Blumenthal's support is holding strong, despite recent revelations that he misrepresented his military record and stated on several...
View ArticleAvon's Martha Dean Squaring Off Against Ross Garber For Attorney General; GOP...
Attorney Martha Dean is squaring off against Ross Garber in the Republican primary for attorney general, and the legal community is already taking sides. Dean ran unsuccessfully for attorney general...
View ArticleDannel Malloy Receives $2.2 Million In Public Funding; Ned Lamont Already...
For the first time in Connecticut history, a statewide candidate has been awarded public money for a political campaign. Former Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy will receive nearly $2.2 million, based on a...
View ArticleLinda McMahon: "I still don't think we know the long-term effects of steroids"
In a lengthy story by Bloomberg Businessweek's Andrew Rice, Linda McMahon is, once again, asked about steroids."There's some evidence sometimes of muscle disease, or cardiac disease, but it's really...
View ArticlePatru walks it back -- again and again
Things sometimes get said in unguarded moments on the campaign trail, especially by newbie candidates. Then it's up to the candidate's spokesman to clarify what was really meant. Take Linda McMahon and...
View ArticleThe blame game
Ask the Blumenthal campaign a question that might be construed as critical and one of the first things they'll do is question where the idea for the story came from. At least that was the reaction...
View ArticleFIC v. Green
The Family Institute of Connecticut struck back against Courant columnist Rick Green, calling his column today a "lazy excuse for journalism" in a fundraising email to supporters. The FIC email also...
View ArticleHartford Mayor Eddie Perez's Driver Resigns After Driving With Suspended...
The driver for Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez has resigned after being arrested for driving with a license that had been suspended in 2002. The driver had been escorting Perez as he faces an extortion and...
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