Okay, this is the end of the line for me; my last post here.
I’m not one to make a lengthy goodbye. I’ve said all I ever wanted to say and more on this site over the past five years… but before I go I want to thank all of the [...]
11:00: Final update. Republicans have a lot of reasons to be optimistic tonight, and I think CT Bob makes an important point–Democrats need to figure out what’s going on if they want to have any hope of retaining their supermajority next year. It’s hard to translate local election gains [...]
Okay, it’s 8pm and polls are now closed.
Races I’m watching: New Britain, Middletown, Newington, Danbury, East Haven and others.
Results will trickle in sooner or later. Stay tuned.
[...]A few more long-winded predictions about CT races from yours truly, just because
Governor
Is Jodi Rell running? Is she not running? Hell, I don’t know. We’ll find out soon. Well, you’ll find out soon, I intend to be hiding in a politics-proof bunker somewhere. Ha!
This race is hard to see, right [...]
There is a lot to be said about 2010. It’s shaping up to be an interesting year. Where do things stand right now?
U.S. Senate
Right now Chris Dodd and Joe Lieberman are in a heated competition for the Most Disliked Connecticut Senator (I think Joe wins the week), but, alas, only [...]
How’s Joe Lieberman weathering the firestorm of criticism?
“I feel relevant,” Lieberman said in a conference call with a handful of Connecticut reporters this afternoon.
I’m glad you feel relevant. Since we’re sharing, I feel like having a different senator. Oh, public option supporters, you are idiots:
What about the [...]
As if to remind us that Connecticut has another U.S. Senator, Joe Lieberman has said a not-all-that-surprising thing which will, as usual, bring the cameras right to his door.
“I probably will support some Republican candidates for Congress or Senate in the election in 2010. I’m going to call [...]
No, no, there isn’t a mayoral election in Bridgeport this year! Sorry. But if you’re Mayor Bill Finch, you’re probably a little relieved that that’s the case. Check out this great new poll from Only in Bridgeport (you aren’t reading OIB? WHY? Get on that right away) showing Finch [...]
“This past week, Ned Lamont tried to mislead voters into believing Joe did not support universal health care, which is flat out false.
[...]
The fact is, Joe Lieberman has and will continue to fight to make quality, affordable health care accessible to every single American, but not at the [...]
Tom Foley has an ad. It has babies in it: babies who owe Uncle Sam money!
The ad is all about not making more debt to pass on to our children, who are, you have to agree, adorable. The ad is mushy and non-specific (where, exactly, are those debt figures coming [...]
One of the better teachers I knew back when I was still faculty at a local high school was a young guy, maybe five to ten years older than me. He’d been in the military and had done a lot of other things, as I remember. I ran the school [...]
A quick note: you should check out some new stuff, if you haven’t already.
First, Pat Scully of Senate Democrats fame (who also was Jim Amann’s press guy for a while) has a new blog. Pat’s been around and knows what’s what, so his insights should be pretty interesting. [...]
Linda McMahon has hired David Cappiello as her new campaign manager–he’ll take the reins later on this month.
McMahon has already hired at least one other notable Connecticut Republican, and has not been shy about spreading money around.
I still have a lot of trouble seeing a clear path to [...]
Ah! Fundraising reports time!
Yes, it smells like money today. That is, unless you’re one of several campaigns that don’t have any, then it smells like undercooked ramen noodles and desperation.
I have a list of very sad and hungry campaigns for you.
1. Jodi Rell: First, there’s the big one, [...]
Rep. Chris Murphy has raised $250,000 this quarter. His campaign has $706,000 on hand, and has raised a total of $966,000 this cycle.
[...]Yes, Joe Sestak, the Democrat running against Arlen Specter in a Pennsylvania primary, will be getting an endorsement from Connecticut’s own Ned Lamont.
…I’m not sure why, either.
[...]According to Roll Call (subscription) Linda McMahon will report spending (yes, spending) a staggering $2 million in the first two weeks of her U.S. Senate campaign.
McMahon has lent her campaign upwards of $3 million in cash and in-kind contributions so far. She has pledged to spend up to $30 [...]
I’m not even kidding. The cops fortunately got to him before he could carry out his evil plan.
On the plus side, this is the most interesting thing that has almost happened to Joe Lieberman in about a year.
[...]Quote from Rob Simmons:
“If donating tens of thousands of dollars to Democrats was ‘the cost of doing business’ for Linda McMahon and her professional wrestling empire, one wonders what she aimed to get in return for her generosity. This sort of influence peddling would not make her ‘a different [...]
Hey, good news time! We in the glorious Valley of the 91st Interstate are smarter than you, especially if you live in Baltimore or Fresno. It turns out that the Hartford/New Haven is number 6 in smart in the whole country, thanks to strong nonfiction book sales, lots of [...]
Hi everyone!
Many of you know this already, but I’ve made the decision to step away from writing CTLP. I will continue to write for and edit the site up through this coming Election Day, but after that I’ll step down, and go on into the next chapter of my life. [...]
The governor has indicated that she will finally let us all know whether she’s planning on running for re-election, but only after municipal elections are over in November.
She is difficult to predict, of course, so who knows what she’ll actually decide? But if she does bow out, I imagine [...]
Vice President Joe Biden is coming to Fairfield today to “discuss how Recovery Act investments are creating jobs and rebuilding Connecticut’s infrastructure,” according to a White House release.
Sen. Chris Dodd and Rep. Jim Himes will also be at the event, which will be held at the Fairfield park and ride [...]
Jeez, people, take a deep breath.
–Rep. Jim Himes (D) in a comment over at My Left Nutmeg. The original post criticized Himes for voting for a nonbinding resolution that prohibited Guantanamo detainees from being transferred to the U.S.
Himes, who was strongly supported by liberal Democrats in his [...]
Tom Foley’s numbers sound very impressive. He’s now got over a million bucks cash on hand: $1.17 million to be exact. Foley raised about $780,000 this quarter, which isn’t bad at all.
However, only $280,000 came from people who weren’t Tom Foley: he gave about $500,000 of his own money.
Is [...]
State Democratic Party chair Nancy DiNardo asks an important question: why, exactly, was Lisa Moody’s caustic reply to state budget director Robert Genuario not in the original stack released to the Courant?
The rest of what DiNardo has to say is the usual raft of complaints about “Governor Moody” [...]
Is John Rowland taking a shot at his successor? That’s the angle being taken over at Capitol Watch, lately, anyway. Judge for yourself:
Rowland was quoted as saying: “But what has the state of Connecticut done for the business community in the last five years to make it more [...]
“We don’t have a budget agreement. We have a budget disagreement.”
-Speaker Christopher Donovan, on the ongoing budget impasse. Yes, we still have one.
Work on the budget may finish this week, or maybe not.
[...]Monday again.
Let’s see… Jon Lender reports on an email Lisa Moody sent during the conversation about whether the governor’s plan to line-item veto certain pieces of the budget would be unconstitutional, which seems to have been “missing” from the original stack obtained from the administration. In response to an [...]
The State Senate yesterday approved $50 million in fee increases yesterday, including increases in just about every DMV fee.
The fee increases seem to mainly be because of an amendment that no one wants to take credit for.
The legislature will be coming back into session this afternoon [...]
There’s activity at the Capitol tonight as the legislature tries to get its act together to finalize the budget and take care of other business. As usual, they are taking their time.
Here’s what’s going on:
The probate court system consolidation has been approved by the House.
Minority Leader Larry Cafero [...]
Sen. Joe Lieberman’s keeping an eye on 2012, though he’s not sure which party he’ll run with.
“I have all sorts of options,” joked the man who traveled the country with GOP presidential contender John McCain.
Actually, he has only two. I doubt he’d make much headway in a contest [...]
I talk all the time about how important it is for people to vote. And it is. Yet, I haven’t always been the best example myself. I missed a general election vote in ‘06. I missed several local elections. I didn’t vote in the ’08 presidential primary after John McCain [...]
Gov. Rell told us, during her press conference in which she announced that instead of signing or vetoing the budget, she was going to take a short break, that to make us all feel better she was going to line-item veto some pork.
It turned out that under the [...]
I’ll be away from the blog for a couple of days, so enjoy this thread with no discernible topic whatsoever!
[...]Another day, yet another poll about Chris Dodd. In the latest Quinnipiac Poll Dodd has closed the gap with Rob Simmons to 5%. He trails the former congressman 44%-39%, an improvement from July, where he trailed Simmons 48%-39%. However, Dodd has held steady at 39% for three straight polls, [...]
A New Britain alderman, Greg Gerrantana has been suspended after it was found he sent attacks on Mayor Timothy Stewart’s (R-New Britain) family to the New Britain Herald. Gerrantana is a legislative aide to Rep. Tim O’Brien (D-New Britain), who is running against Stewart this fall.
Weirdly, Gerrantana had an [...]
10:34pm: Jarjura wins in Waterbury by an unofficial total of 186 votes.
10:00pm: A recount is needed in Cromwell.
9:18pm: The Rep-Am reports that Morris First Selectman Karen D. Paradis defeated her GOP opponent by 3 votes.
9:13pm: I’m getting a report that Scott Jackson is the big winner [...]
On the heels of a recent Rasmussen poll showing Sen. Dodd trailing Rob Simmons by 10% comes a new Research 2000/Daily Kos poll in which Dodd is trailing Simmons 46%-42%.
The poll shows Dodd defeating all other GOP candidates.
However, Simmons leads in the race for the GOP nomination, [...]
It looks like the body of missing Yale graduate student Annie Le has been found. Awful news. Police are ruling the case a homicide.
Primary Day is tomorrow! The race to watch is in Waterbury, where the president of the board of Aldermen, Paul Vance, is challenging incumbent mayor [...]
I was going to put up the usual cast of Monday links, but I’d rather write (or re-write) this post instead.
You don’t need me to tell you that the state of discourse and debate in this country stinks. You don’t need me to talk about Joe Wilson, you don’t need [...]
After the president’s speech tonight, Rep. Courtney will be discussing their reactions to the speech and health care in general with his guest, Dr. Dinesh Kapur, the Medical Director of Oncology at The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich. Dr. Kapur is also an Attending Physician in Hematology, Oncology and [...]
Sen. Chris Dodd has announced he won’t be taking Ted Kennedy’s gavel in the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, staying chair of the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. Said Dodd in a press release:
“As you all know, last winter, my friend Ted Kennedy asked me to lead [...]
From LocalOnlineNews.tv
This is a nice post to do today, when it seems like the debate over health care is starting to shift into the legislative endgame.
Rep. Joe Courtney held a telephone town hall on health care on August 24th. According to what Brian Farber, Deputy Chief of Staff/Communications Director for Rep. [...]
