(WTNH) – With recent poll numbers showing he’d lose to the two top Republicans vying for his seat, Democratic Party insiders are starting to worry that Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd’s troubles could hurt other candidates.
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[...]Washington (AP) – Urgently seeking a deal on President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, Democratic senators are considering temporarily opening the Medicare rolls to uninsured middle-aged people able to purchase the coverage.
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[...]Cromwell (AP) – Democrats were the main target as Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell dished out the jokes while unveiling her annual Christmas gift list.
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[...]U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon is meeting with top Republican senators down in Washington, D.C. this week.
She has gained their attention with a vow to spend as much as $50 million of her own money in an attempt to unseat Democrat Christopher J. Dodd, the former general chairman of the [...]
With her tongue-in-cheek, Gov. M. Jodi Rell unveiled her annual Christmas shopping list Monday that poked fun at the Democratic leaders of the state legislature, various gubernatorial candidates, University of Connecticut coaches and others.
Rell issues the list every year as part of a holiday tradition at the Middlesex County Chamber [...]
Sunday’s Hartford Courant story about the foul-up that cost the state of Connecticut almost $28 million has landed at the doorstep of Democratic Attorney General Richard Blumenthal.
The story, by Josh Kovner and John Lender, chronicled the hiring of Kenneth Jones as an appraiser for the state [...]
Progressive Change will soon be running this ad in Connecticut with a $40,000 ad buy.
"Joe Lieberman promised Connecticut voters in 2006 that he would support core Democratic issues like health care reform," said PCCC co-founder Adam Green in a statement. "This tongue-in-cheek ad holds Lieberman accountable for putting his" [...]
By CHARLES BABINGTON
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – Buoyed by a presidential pep talk and intense rounds of negotiations, Senate Democrats hope to move closer to embracing a major health care bill this week by tackling the nettlesome issue of abortion.
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Arundhati Roy is an unusual Indian woman.
Listening to Grasshoppers; Field Notes on Democracy, Arundhati Roy, Hamish Hamilton, Penguin, India 2009, 240 pages, 499 rupees.
By Trond Øverland
Arundhati Roy is an unusual Indian woman. Instead of acting the graceful upholder of traditional values, she goes on challenging the [...]
Just some interesting statistics from the November 2009 Marlborough election.
There were approximately 1150 voters who turned out at the polls out of about 4,200 who are registered, which was a 27.4% turnout.
The registered voters in Marlborough are comprised of:
Democrat: 32% (Up from previous years when it used [...]
Washington (AP) – Senate Democrats have defeated a GOP attempt to eliminate $40 billion in cuts to home health care services in the health overhaul bill.
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[...]State Republican legislators unveiled their own budget-cutting plan Friday, saying the state should restore the sales tax cut that was originally in the budget - and was canceled recently because of weak tax collections.
Going against Gov. M. Jodi Rell's recommendation, the Republicans also said that Rell's proposed $84 million in [...]
There is no consensus yet on Gov. M. Jodi Rell's municipal panel of mayors on her proposal to cut $84 million for cities and towns in the current fiscal year.
Rell has called for a special session on December 15, but it is unclear whether the Democratic-controlled legislature will take any [...]
Republican lawmakers today rejected plans to cut town and city aid and instead proposed closing the projected budget deficit by cutting state spending by $466 million. They called for immediate action from Democrats whose budget was unbalanced as soon they passed it in September.The Republican proposal reduces the sales tax [...]
The Republicans are still whining about the fact that mean old Al Franken made them vote in favor of rapists a few months back.
This from the party that has made a habit out of proposing resolutions designed solely to force Democrats to cast votes that can be easily [...]
That didn’t take long. No sooner had Governor Rell released her latest deficit mitigation plan, designed to correct the $624 million shortfall left by the atrocity of a budget passed by legislative Democrats, did the caterwauling begin from all manner of groups reliant on the government gravy train.We hear cries [...]
A liberal activist group that has been running ads against Blue Dog Democrats who voted against the healthcare overhaul bill in the House now have a new target: Sen. Joseph Lieberman.
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee says it has already raised more than $40,000 to run online ads targeting Lieberman, an independent [...]
Wallingford (WTNH) – Jerry Labriola, Jr., a Naugatuck attorney, announced today he will seek the Republican nomination for the Third Congressional District to run against 20-year incumbent Democrat Rosa DeLauro of New Haven.
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