Rejecting the public financing system, Greenwich millionaire Tom Foley has committed $2 million to his campaign for governor.
Foley made the announcement Friday to supporters and the press.
"This week I will be making an initial commitment to my campaign of $2 million,'' he said. "These funds, along with future financial commitments [...]
A goodwill message to the troops from President Obama that will be broadcast on a World Wrestling Entertainment special has become tangled in questions over the Senate campaign of the company's former CEO, Greenwich Republican Linda McMahon.
Obama delivered a taped message of holiday cheer that will be aired on a special [...]
Former state Sen. Bill Nickerson is backing Simmons for U.S. Senate, not Greenwich home girl, Linda McMahon.
"Having worked with Rob Simmons in the General Assembly and during his tenure as business advocate, I know that his commitment to public service and distinguished record make him the clear choice for Connecticut," Nickerson [...]
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush predicted on CNBC that former U.S. Rep. Rob Simmons will defeat incumbent Democrat Christopher J. Dodd in the 2010 U.S. Senate race.
Bush, whose grandparents and father lived in Greenwich for years, is familiar with Connecticut and served as the keynote speaker at the annual Prescott Bush Awards dinner [...]
Benjamin Malloy, the son of former Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy, was sentenced Thursday to five years' probation after pleading guilty to two felonies.
The former mayor did not address the judge in court, but he spoke outside after the proceedings.
Both Greenwich police and Darien police have raided the mayor's Stamford home on Ocean [...]
Weeks ago, who would have thought that Linda McMahon would have made this a two-candidate race (sorry inhabitants of Planet Schiff). McMahon, with her intentional boasting that she might spend $50 million of her own money, has frightened off a felllow Greenwich multi-millionaire and a popular state senator. Next [...]
Republican Tom Foley of Greenwich announced today that he will be running for Governor instead of the U.S. Senate.
In an e-mail to supporters sent simultaneously with the announcement, the Greenwich businessman promised a “Plan Forward for Connecticut” in the near future:
So I am announcing today that [...]
We don't know. But Greenwich millionaire businessman Tom Foley says he's ready to fight for the job. Foley announced Thursday afternoon that he was abandoning his senate bid to run for the governor's job. He didn't offer much more except to hint that he would not accept public financing. "There" [...]
Greenwich multimillionaire Tom Foley is expected to announce this afternoon that he is running as a Republican for governor.
He released the following statement last week:
"Last spring I entered the race for the United States Senate because I wanted to serve the people of Connecticut. Recently, the political landscape in Connecticut" [...]
Poor Lt. Gov Mike Fedele can’t get no respect. He was endorsed by Jodi Rell but then he kinda wasn’t, exactly. And now that he’s finally making his official announcement today, guess who’s raining on his parade?
Another one of those darn “Greenwich millionaires”! The Courant’s Rick Green that [...]
(WTNH) – Greenwich businessman Tom Foley will formally announce on Thursday that he is now running for the Republican nomination for Governor.
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Greenwich multi-millionaire Linda McMahon is expected to spend more than $500,000 on television commercials over the next three weeks, starting on Wednesday.
Our colleague, Rick Green, has the details at [blogs.courant.com]
With the margin of error included, McMahon was essentially in a statistical dead heat with U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd [...]
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' [...]
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' [...]
