On her television ads, Linda McMahon is cast as the colorful political outsider, whose supporters giddily ask, “Think she can shake things up in Washington? Oh, yeah!” But the reality of her U.S. Senate campaign has been one of tight discipline and message control, crafted to give no offense as McMahon offers safe promises of […]

The debate over whether to have a debate is over: Ned Lamont promises to show up at the Rocky Hill studios of WFSB next Tuesday to debate Dan Malloy in the Democratic race for governor. But if Democrats now expect their contenders for an elusive political prize to dial back the negative ads, disappointment awaits. […]

Tom Foley and Lt. Gov. Michael Fedele frequently sparred Thursday night, ignoring the underfunded Oz Griebel during a televised debate of the Republican candidates for governor. But Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell took the most punches as Foley blamed her administration for the fiscal crisis. And Fedele worked from the opening bell to distance himself […]

Republican Linda McMahon’s first advertising attack on Democrat Richard Blumenthal in the U.S. Senate race is a mailer that casts his admitted misstatements about his Vietnam-era service as calculated lies. The mass mailing began arriving Tuesday, as Blumenthal and McMahon skipped a debate and left Republicans Rob Simmons and Peter Schiff to gently confront each […]

A court challenge by Michael Jarjura will keep Kevin Lembo’s public financing tied up until at least late this afternoon in the race for the Democratic nomination for comptroller. A Hartford Superior Court judge heard testimony until Monday evening on Jarjura’s complaint that Lembo was improperly awarded $375,000 in public financing. Testimony resumed today. “It’s […]

Democratic gubernatorial candidates Dan Malloy and Ned Lamont will hold telephone town halls tonight, taking calls from voters on an evening when they were invited to debate in New London. Maybe they can call each other. Malloy intends to first hold a press conference outside the Garde Arts Center, where The Day of New London […]

A Superior Court judge Tuesday rejected Michael Jarjura’s effort to block Kevin Lembo from using public financing in their Democratic contest for state comptroller. The terse order by Judge James T. Graham frees Lembo to begin spending the $375,000 awarded to him last week for his Aug. 10 primary with Jarjura, the mayor of Waterbury. […]

Richard Blumenthal and Linda McMahon were no-shows, leaving Rob Simmons and Peter Schiff to debate each other and two minor-party candidates tonight. Simmons arguably made news for uttering a simple, declarative sentence: “I am running for the U.S. Senate.” Once the Republican front runner, Simmons suspended his campaign after the GOP convention, only to resume […]

Just five weeks after petitioning his way onto the Republican U.S. Senate primary ballot, Peter Schiff says he is unlikely to continue propping up his struggling campaign with his own money. His last gasp as a U.S. Senate candidate likely will come this week with an online plea for money to air commercials. “If I […]

Fifteen days before the primaries, temperatures are rising in the races for the Democratic and Republican gubernatorial nominations, with the front-runners in both contests accusing their opponents of negative tactics. The friction started Friday, when Republican Michael C. Fedele and Democrat Dan Malloy launched oddly parallel commercials intended to undermine the business resumes of the […]

In a WNPR radio debate of the two Democratic candidates for lieutenant governor today, the first question posed by a listener: Does Connecticut really need a governor in waiting? For the record, Nancy Wyman and Mary Glassman believe the job they are seeking is necessary, though each conceded that lieutenant governors often have had little […]

Linda McMahon did her best Thursday to ignore Rob Simmons’ re-emergence as an active candidate, but others tried to assess if there now is a real fight for the GOP U.S. Senate nomination. “I thought the primary was over, so I’m watching and waiting to see what happens,” said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, the chairman […]

Republican gubernatorial candidate Michael Fedele today began airing a commercial that criticizes the GOP front runner, Tom Foley, for making $20 million as his Georgia textile manufacturer, the Bibb Company, slid into bankruptcy. The ad is a frontal assault on the cornerstone of Foley’s campaign: his acumen as a businessman who became rich acquiring the […]

Trailing in the polls, Dan Malloy aired a television commercial Friday afternoon that tweaks Ned Lamont for his refusal to debate in the closing weeks of their campaign for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. As attack ads go, it is a relatively gentle spot. Malloy appears on the camera for the entire commercial, contrasting his record […]

Ned Lamont rolled out a new television ad today in which he is endorsed by Ted Kennedy Jr. The son of the late U.S. senator, Kennedy is a long-time Connecticut resident who has been mentioned as a potential candidate for public office. His father endorsed Lamont in his 2006 race for U.S. Senate. In the […]