Nicolas Kemper

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dan Malloy is up by 15 percentage points against his Republican opponent Tom Foley in a poll released Monday by Rasmussen Reports. The poll, the first since Foley and Malloy won their respective party nominations in the Aug. 10 primary, shows Malloy leading Foley by 48 percent to 33 percent. Six percent […]

It was cake and benefits on Friday when Representative Joe Courtney celebrated the 75th birthday of Social Security at the Enfield Senior Center. There was one large, vanilla cake for the twenty odd seniors and Courtney aides in attendance, and over $700 million in monthly benefits for the 611,276 social security recipients in Connecticut. Signed […]

COVENTRY – While his rivals were blitzing the state, making campaign stops from Coventry to Norwalk, Rob Simmons began the last weekend before the Republican Senate primary here, talking about spies. After delivering introductory remarks for the Nathan Hale Symposium, Simmons spent two hours listening to the remarks of three other panelists, and offered a […]

Go to Philly.com, and you might find Dan Malloy. Search on Yahoo! for Richard Blumenthal, and Ned Lamont’s name appears. This is the biggest year yet for political Internet ad buys, in Connecticut and nationally, and that means there are few places on the Internet where the politicians aren’t. Lamont and Malloy’s ads are typical […]

GLASTONBURY–Rob Simmons Friday launched the second and last television ad of his recently revived campaign for the GOP U.S. Senate nomination, a 30-second spot extolling public service and including an implicit jab at his principal opponent, Linda McMahon. Simmons had stopped campaigning and dismissed his staff in May after losing the Republican endorsement to McMahon. […]

GROTON — At Grossman’s Seafood Market, they were selling a tale of tough times for Connecticut’s dwindling lobster fishery, which is facing a five-year moratorium by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, hosted an informational meeting Thursday that drew two lobstermen and seven news organizations on a sweltering summer day. […]