Republican Tom Foley is using his civilian service as President George W. Bush’s director of private-sector development in Iraq as a hook for a fundraising letter to veterans, one of the end-of-year flurry of solicitations from politicians, including one from a U.S. senator not facing re-election until 2016. The goal is to pump the numbers […]
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Bradford to retire as public safety commissioner
Reuben F. Bradford, a former state trooper and NFL security director who is Connecticut’s first black public-safety chief, will retire Feb. 1 as commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection, the agency that includes the Connecticut State Police. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s office announced Bradford’s plans Thursday. Bradford, 67, returned to a demanding job in […]
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Gun owners see choices in CT governor’s race as bad or worse
When the Connecticut Citizens Defense League endorsed Republican Tom Foley in the 2010 race for governor, it went unnoticed. The gun owners’ group was just a year old, and gun control barely registered as an issue in Foley’s close contest with Democrat Dannel P. Malloy. Now, it is in rapid-growth mode, with a membership that […]
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CT GOP struggles, while Dems bank $550K
As the Connecticut Democratic Party thrived, the state Republican Party ran a deficit in its federal account in November, ending the month with just $7,107 in cash and a debt of $7,513, the latest indicator of a GOP in dire straits on the eve of a statewide election year. Finance reports filed over the weekend […]
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Malloy road-tests a stump speech for 2014
The soft opening of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s unannounced re-election campaign is under way. Over the late summer and fall, Malloy has honed the elements of a 2014 stump speech, road-testing themes and images calculated to create a quickening sense of progress after decades of stagnation.
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Merrill files papers for re-election campaign
Secretary of the State Denise Merrill created a candidate committee Wednesday, becoming an official candidate for re-election in 2014. Merrill said she once again will participate in the voluntary Citizens Election Program, which will limit her to maximum contributions of $100 in return for public financing. It was a low-key launch for the first-term Democrat. […]
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Metro-North promises regular service by April
In a report delivered Tuesday to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, Metro-North promised a return to normal weekday service on the New Haven line by April, nearly a year after a derailment near Bridgeport. The report was issued in response to a demand by Malloy in December for the commuter railroad’s response to a number of […]
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A psychiatrist’s diagnosis: Prosecutor’s report taught us nothing about Adam Lanza
Harold Schwartz, a Hartford psychiatrist and member of the governor’s Sandy Hook Advisory Commission, is unimpressed with the Danbury State’s Attorney Stephen Sedensky’s report on the Newtown school massacre. In a piece published by the Huffington Post, Schwartz pushes back at those who say the answer to Newtown, if there is one, rests with the […]
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Malloy mixes politics, nutrition, jobs on visit
It’s not every day that a governor promotes a startup company’s line of nutrition supplements. Then again, it’s not every day that a nutrition-supplement company promotes a first-term governor’s re-election.
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A Sandy Hook moment
Earlier this week, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said he is like a lot of people when it comes to the Sandy Hook tragedy. At times, he finds himself overcome, usually in private. One of those moments unfolded in public Friday. The trigger was a question about his plans to remember the anniversary of the Sandy […]
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Would-be NHL owners talking to Malloy
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Friday that he has told two groups interested in acquiring NHL franchises that Connecticut would be interested in providing a home, though not at the cost of building a new arena totally on the taxpayer’s dime.
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Connecticut Democrats return questioned $10,000 contribution
The Connecticut Democratic Party is returning a $10,000 contribution from Edward Snider, the chairman of Comcast Spectacor, whose subsidiaries include Global Spectrum, a company that won a contract earlier this year to manage the state-owned XL Center and Rentschler Field. The decision Wednesday comes a day after Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, R-Fairfield, a candidate […]
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Rowland to press SCOTUS appeal dropped by Jepsen
Breaking with Attorney General George Jepsen and the Malloy administration, former Gov. John G. Rowland will pursue an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court of a lower court’s ruling that the Rowland administration acted illegally to punish union members in 2003 with layoffs, his lawyer said Thursday. “Gov. Rowland and Marc Ryan have instructed us to […]
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Malloy to stay aggressive in fundraising
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy was introduced Tuesday at the Middlesex Chamber of Commerce’s annual holiday breakfast by a sponsor of the event and his political party: Rodney Powell, one of the Northeast Utilities executives who has made the gas-and-electric utility the biggest source of individual contributions to the Connecticut Democratic Party in 2013.
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Malloy names Appellate Judge Richard Robinson to Supreme Court
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy introduced Appellate Judge Richard A. Robinson Tuesday as his choice for a vacancy on the Connecticut Supreme Court, saying the nomination is the first of about a dozen judicial appointments he expects to make before the General Assembly convenes its 2014 session in February.