Tom Foley remained noncommittal Thursday about a potential legal challenge to the gubernatorial election as vote-counting continued in Bridgeport, but his campaign took steps late in the day to cast doubts about the election process in Connecticut’s largest city. The GOP nominee issued a statement raising a series of questions about ballots that reportedly hadn’t […]
November 4, 2010 @ 12:00 am
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House Democrats elect Sharkey as next majority leader
State Rep. J. Brendan Sharkey of Hamden beat Rep. Andrew Fleischmann of West Hartford for House majority leader in voting by the Democratic caucus Thursday night. Sharkey will take over in January when the current majority leader, Denise Merrill of Mansfield, becomes the next secretary of the state. “Team building is going to be the key, Sharkey […]
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Waiting for Bridgeport: Slow count delays declaration of next governor until Friday
An updated tally of votes from New Haven on Thursday virtually assured that Democrat Dan Malloy will be declared the state’s next governor, but delays in obtaining official returns from Bridgeport will keep the secretary of the state from pronouncing a victor until Friday. Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz said at 6 p.m. that […]
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Members of Congress keep old jobs, face new reality
WASHINGTON–For Connecticut’s Democratic congressional delegation, the election celebrations are over, and a stark new reality is beginning to set in. Yes, the state’s five Democratic U.S. House members all dodged the Republican wave that swept the rest of the country. But now they have to adjust to a dramatically reconfigured political landscape, one in which […]
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Education commissioner proposes increasing kindergarten enrollment age
Education Commissioner Mark McQuillan is proposing an increase in the minimum age for students to enter kindergarten–a move that could delay the start of public school for almost 10,000 students a year. McQuillan told members of the State Board of Education Wednesday the proposal will narrow the age range for students in kindergarten, which now […]
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Did under-reporting of Latino vote skew the polls?
Could under-reporting of the Latino vote have skewed political polls this year? That’s a real possibility, Nate Silverconcludes at FiveThirtyEight.com. Results from 15 statewide races in states with the largest proportion of Hispanics in the population showed that Democrats–who tend to be more heavily-favored by Latino voters–did better than projected in 10 of them. In Connecticut, Hispanics comprise […]