Mark Pazniokas

They began with 42 photographs in 2007. No chiseled granite or cast bronze, just inexpensively framed photos of men and women on a gray wall in a concourse connecting the Legislative Office Building and State Capitol. Formal portraits of young Marines in dress blues. Snapshots of soldiers in desert fatigues, one grinning under a helmet […]

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal marched softly Thursday toward Memorial Day, an awkward holiday for a politician struggling to live down a controversy over misrepresenting his Vietnam-era military record. He is skipping public observances over the weekend, a tacit admission that his presence could disrupt memorials and generate fresh headlines by drawing hecklers. But he is […]

By challenging Ned Lamont to an unprecedented series of 17 debates, Dan Malloy cast himself Wednesday as the de facto challenger in the Democratic primary for governor. Malloy won the Democratic endorsement by a 2-1 margin at last week’s state convention, but Lamont has a higher profile from his 2006 run for U.S. Senate and […]

A new poll shows that Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Richard Blumenthal is weathering his military-record controversy and that Republican Linda McMahon’s candidacy is provoking doubts among Connecticut voters. A Quinnipiac University poll released today has Blumenthal leading McMahon, 56 percent to 31 percent, a modest tightening of the race since the university’s last poll in […]

Tom Foley leads a three-way Republican field for governor, while Ned Lamont tops Dan Malloy in the Democratic race, 41 percent to 24 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. In the GOP race, Foley is supported by 37 percent of Republicans, followed by Lt. Gov. Mike Fedele with 11 percent and Hartford-area business […]

A new poll shows that Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Richard Blumenthal is weathering his military-record controversy and that Republican Linda McMahon’s candidacy is provoking doubts among Connecticut voters. A Quinnipiac University poll released today has Blumenthal leading McMahon, 56 percent to 31 percent, a modest tightening of the race since the university’s last poll in […]

Lincoln and Douglas got by with seven in 1858.  Will Malloy and Lamont do 17 in 2010? Dan Malloy, the endorsed Democratic candidate for governor, proposed today that he and his primary challenger, Ned Lamont, hold debates in every city and town with a daily newspaper. Malloy said he and Lamont – for different reasons […]

Richard Blumenthal’s U.S. Senate campaign took friendly fire today. Vice President Joe Biden, who by his own admission often misfires with his humor and commentary, zinged his fellow Democrat over Blumenthal’s Vietnam controversy at an event for wounded soldiers. “I didn’t serve in Vietnam. I don’t want to make a Blumenthal mistake here,” Biden said according […]

A Republican source says Rob Simmons told his staff Monday he will end his campaign for U.S. Senate at a press conference today in New London. On Monday night, Simmons called a press conference for 9 a.m. in New London to make an “announcement on the future of the campaign for U.S. Senate,” immediately prompting […]

NEW LONDON — Rob Simmons ended his campaign for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, comparing a run against Linda McMahon’s money to the futility of Pickett’s Charge during the Civil War. “As somebody interested in military history, it was a foolish waste of people and resources, with a tremendously demoralizing outcome,” said […]

Gov. M. Jodi Rell has vetoed sweeping energy legislation passed on the final day of the 2010 session after a late-night debate, attacking the path the bill followed to passage as vehemently as she did the measure’s content. Rell, whose administration was not consulted on the bill as it was drafted, called the process “disrespectful […]

Richard Blumenthal’s U.S. Senate campaign gave mixed messages Monday about the damage inflicted by a week-old controversy over characterizations of his Vietnam-era military record. The previously defiant Blumenthal abruptly apologized for telling audiences he served in Vietnam, while his campaign advisers said that days-old internal polling shows that he is weathering the storm. “There wasn’t […]

Money talks in politics, and it spoke loudly over the weekend at Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, where Republicans endorsed two rich neophytes for governor and U.S. Senate. But the Republican losers didn’t complain as much about the prospect of being outspent as did a Democratic winner, Dan Malloy, who was endorsed for governor across […]

Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz took the first step towards political rehabilitation today with a lighthearted, upbeat speech to the Democratic State Convention. “How was your week? I guess I can take the Supreme Court justices off my Christmas card list,” Bysiewicz said. “Obviously, this isn’t the speech I planned on giving.” Bysiewicz, who […]

Believe it or not, Nikki O’Neill got her first view this weekend of a Democrat being nominated for governor. The widow of Gov. William A. O’Neill, the longest-serving governor of modern times, said she and her husband always watched the proceedings from a hotel room, then swept into the hall after O’Neill had won the […]