Democrat Richard Blumenthal began a long-awaited offensive in the U.S. Senate race Friday night with a commercial saying that Republican Linda McMahon is falsely accusing him of supporting an “energy tax.” In his first TV spot to mention McMahon, Blumenthal rebuts what he calls a misrepresentation of his record and attacks McMahon’s self-financed campaign and […]

Sen. Christopher Dodd and Rep. Rosa DeLauro don’t usually part ways on political questions. But the president’s appointment of Elizabeth Warren to help set up the new consumer protection agency had DeLauro cheering, while Dodd wasn’t quite so pleased. Warren would protect consumers from “the greed and excess that was the downfall of our economy,” DeLauro said in a statement […]

ore jobs and less spending. That’s the political message Rep. Chris Murphy, D-5th District, is trying to sell in his first political ad of the season. Murphy’s contest against state Sam Caligiuri of Waterbury hasn’t gotten as much attention as other state contests. But he’s not running in a perfectly safe district either. So it’s no wonder this ad  highlights […]