Linda McMahon isn’t convinced that human activity is a cause of climate change. “I think the science behind climate change is evolving and has yet to be totally confirmed for me,” McMahon said Monday. “Do we human beings emit carbon into the atmosphere? Sure, we do.” But McMahon, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, said […]

NEWTOWN — To Democrats who wonder when and where Richard Blumenthal will begin to engage Linda McMahon in their U.S. Senate battle, the answer was not Monday and not here, at the state’s only Labor Day parade. The parade is regarded as the start of the campaign season, perhaps an outdated conceit, given that McMahon […]

Sam Caligiuri says his internal polling in the 5th Congressional District shows him in nearly a dead-heat with the two-term Democratic incumbent, Chris Murphy. A poll by National Research has Murphy over Caligiuri, the Republican nominee, 40 percent to 39 percent. Caligiuri’s base line poll a year ago was 49 percent to 28 percent. The […]

A new study offers sobering news for the next governor: The state likely won’t recover jobs lost in the recession until after the 2014 gubernatorial election. And the gulf between the richest and poorest workers has grown, giving Connecticut the largest gap between the bottom and top 10-percent of earners. Those are among the findings […]

SOUTHINGTON — The Tea Party may have preferred to see the full-throated, anti-government zeal of Peter Schiff in the U.S. Senate, but its adherents demonstrated Tuesday night they will accept Linda McMahon’s milder brand of conservatism. McMahon headlined a fundraiser for Tea Party organizer and Republican state Senate candidate Joe Markley, drawing a standing-room crowd […]

The muted reaction to a former Republican national chairman coming out of the closet is a reminder that the culture wars can’t compete with a stagnant economy. “At this point in the election cycle, people have a lot more important things to worry about than Ken Mehlman’s sexual orientation,” said Chris Healy, the Connecticut Republican […]

Democrat Dan Malloy had the biggest fundraising day in Connecticut history Tuesday as he collected $6 million in public financing for his campaign for governor. But it is Republican Tom Foley who is poised to ramp up spending with a resumption of television advertising this week, an effort to close Malloy’s double-digit lead in the […]

Rep. Kenneth P. Green, D-Hartford, filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging his two-vote, recount loss in the Democratic primary to Matt Ritter. Under the law, the case will go to trial within days. Hartford Superior Court Judge Susan Peck scheduled a status conference for Wednesday afternoon, with testimony to begin as early as Friday. Green alleged […]

Even on a relaxed summer day, Dan Malloy is a candidate who occupies the narrow spaces between confident and cocky, energetic and edgy. It is a more than a week after he crushed Ned Lamont in the Democratic primary for governor, and Malloy is getting antsy. He is ready to go, to work. “That’s what […]

With a new mailer and TV ad, Republican Linda McMahon has launched a double-barreled attack on the political image Democrat Richard Blumenthal has cultivated as a crusading attorney general over two decades. The commercial and mailer portray Blumenthal as dishonest and, for the first time in his career, beholden to “special interests” that have contributed […]

SHELTON – A motorcycle loudly idled at a stop light Tuesday as Linda McMahon, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, stood by her waiting SUV and answered questions from two reporters about a dead wrestler. McMahon, a co-founder of World Wrestling Entertainment, was trying to steer the impromptu press conference away from the recent death […]

Richard Blumenthal distanced himself Monday from the Obama administration and the state’s Democratic congressional delegation with a forceful denunciation of Washington in a speech to the Connecticut AFL-CIO in Hartford. The Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate was cheered as he arrived, but his anti-Washington theme drew little applause from a labor audience that had warmly […]

Democrat Dan Malloy visited the Connecticut AFL-CIO on Monday to seal the deal on the labor federation’s endorsement today of his candidacy for governor. Republican Tom Foley came with no expectations. After sitting out the Democratic primary for governor, the AFL-CIO is preparing to turn out its members on behalf of Malloy and the entire […]

Howard Dean, the former Democratic national chairman, blamed Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman today for the failure of the U.S. Senate to open Medicare to younger Americans as part of the health-care reform act passed by Congress. “Remember who sold you out on health care,” Dean told the Connecticut AFL-CIO at its biennial political convention in […]