Our colleague Rick Green weighs in on the Republican political shake-up that involves former Ambassador Tom Foley considering dropping out of the U.S. Senate race and running for governor.
It's at [blogs.courant.com]
On Sen. Chris Dodd, he also says [blogs.courant.com]
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GOP chairman Chris Healy's game of musical chairs continues as Sam Caligiuri drops out of the senate race in order to campaign for the 5th Congressional District Republican nomination.
CTNewsJunkie has the details:
As expected, state Senator Sam Caligiuri officially switched campaigns Tuesday afternoon and decided [...]
GOP chairman Chris Healy's game of musical chairs continues as Sam Caligiuri drops out of the senate race in order to campaign for the 5th Congressional District Republican nomination.
While the Democrats dither over Chris Dodd's chances at re-election and Greenwich businessman Ned Lamont thinks long and hard about whether he wants to run for governor, the Republicans are all of a sudden getting their chess pieces in place.
With the departure of Sam Caligiuri from the Senate race today and' [...]
Connecticut Democrats are closely watching the shake-up across the aisle. Party spokeswoman Colleen Flanagan said today's departures of Sam Caligiuri and Tom Foley indicate a growing consensus among the GOP that Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd may not be as easy a conquest as they had initially hoped.
"For an allegedly 'vulnerable' incumbent, Chris Dodd may" [...]
The Hartford Courant reports that according to Kevin Rennie’s Facebook page, one of his friends says that:
GOP Senate hopeful Tom Foley told the West Hartford Republicans last night that he is considering hightailing it into the less competitive race for governor. He’ll decide in 2 week’ developing…’sounds like decision [...]
Kevin Rennie breaks the following news on Facebook (via Capitol Report)
'a friend reports that GOP Senate hopeful Tom Foley told the West Hartford Republicans last night that he is considering hightailing it into the less competitive race for governor. He'll decide in 2 week' developing...
...'sounds like decision has been made'
Justin' [...]
Does anyone have access to information released today about the breakdown of delegates by Town for the GOP Convention. I was told that this information was to be released today, but haven’t seen head nor tail of it. Heath?
[...]Rick Torres decision to run for the GOP nomination in CD4 against Himes, besides not making a heck of a lot of sense, also assists Sen. Dan Debicella as he seeks the nod. Torres is from the same town, the same Bridgeport GOP “club”, as it were, as former Sen. [...]
Does anybody really think that the millionaire duo from Greenwich, Tom Foley and Linda McMahon, didn't have something to do with Sam Caligiuri's likely departure from the senate race? Caliguiri -- who now says he's also thinking about the governor's race --was urged (via press release!) by party central to run for the' [...]
Wow. You take a few days away from blogging to focus on the job that pays and look what you miss:
1. Hearst’s drooling front page love fest on Linda McMahon
(see “McMahon’s wealth dwarfs resources of most GOP foes”).
McMahon’s money “makes her instantaneously … a formidable candidate,” [...]
A report from Courant Staff Writer Edmund H. Mahony:
Kevin O'Connor, a Republican former U.S. attorney and former associate U.S. attorney general, said Thursday he will not run for governor, a decision that reshapes what is expected to be a hard-fought contest to replace Gov. M. Jodi Rell.
O'Connor, of West Hartford, [...]
The Courant's Edmund H. Mahony reports the following:
Buried in debate over the Obama administration's decision to try conspirators in the Sept. 11 attacks in a civilian federal court in New York was talk about where the case could end up should the defendants succeed in seeking a change of venue. [...]
The GOP blocked a bill yesterday from Senator Dodd which would have frozen increases in credit card interest rates, fees and finance charges. This would have moved the date up from February and August 2010 for this particular part of a bill which passed last May, on a vote of [...]
One day after the Republican contest in the Fifth Congressional District was shaken up by the announcement that State Sen. Sam Caligiuri is considering switching from the U.S. Senate race to the Congressional race, GOP candidate Justin Bernier has received to big boosts to his effort.
The Torrington Register Citizen featured [...]
Hartford (AP) – The chairman of the Connecticut Republicans has asked one of his party’s candidates for U.S. Senate to consider switching races.
Read more »Original post blogged on b2evolution.
[...]Is GOP chair Chris Healy urging State Senator Sam Caligiuri to abandon his U.S. Senate aspirations and turn his sights to the 5th Congressional race?First came an e-mail statement from CTGOP Chairman Chris Healy:
Over the last few weeks, State Senator Sam Caligiuri and I have discussed his candidacy for statewide office. After much thought and discussion with other leaders and activists, I have urged him to focus his energies on the Fifth Congressional district where [...]
In a move that would shake up two political races, the state Republican chairman is publicly asking state Sen. Sam Caligiuri to run against Democratic incumbent Rep. Christopher Murphy in the 5th Congressional district.
As the former acting mayor of Waterbury, Caligiuri is well-known in the Greater Waterbury area, which is near the core [...]
With an abundance of candidates and signs of a national mood shift, Connecticut Republicans are ushering one of their senate candidates off to the Fifth District, where there are hopes of a high-profile race against U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, the Democratic incumbent.
U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd continues to get beaten by all three Republican candidates in the latest Quinnipiac Poll released Thursday. Dodd’s trustworthiness with the voters is also in the red zone, with a 52 percent thumbs down a little under a year before the 2010 Election. Only [...]
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New Britain Mayor Timothy Stewart has been fighting for years in the trenches of partisan warfare as a Republican mayor up against a Democratic-dominated city council.
Stewart is expected to clash again with Phil Sherwood, a longtime political activist who is now the council leader.
"Phil Sherwood?'' Stewart asked in today's Hartford" [...]
U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd continues to get beaten by all three Republican candidates in the latest Quinnipiac Poll releasedThursday. Dodd’s trustworthiness with the voters is also in the red zone, with a 52 percent thumbs down a little under a year before the 2010 Election. Only nine percent said [...]
