As treasurer of a Super PAC, Charlie Spies spent $142 million in support of Mitt Romney in 2012, using 90 percent of the money to attack Romney’s rivals. He is a believer, defender and advocate of the right to make unlimited, independent campaign expenditures. And he is Tom Foley’s lawyer.
Romney’s PAC man in Foley’s corner
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Blumenthal to quiz Con Ed, MTA execs in Bridgeport about Metro-North outage
The presidents of ConEdison and the MTA are scheduled to testify in Bridgeport next Monday at a U.S. Senate field hearing about the ConEd outage that disrupted Metro-North commuter service. U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said Monday he will conduct a hearing of a Senate subcommitee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety and […]
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Free Event Tonight: CT Mirror Tour – Generation For Hire/20 somethings in the Connecticut workforce
This event is free and open to the public. Connecticut produces thousands of college graduates every year, but does the emerging economic order require the skills they actually possess? What are Connecticut’s employers, educators, and economic development leaders doing to retain a generation of students who entered college at the beginning of the recession — […]
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Shutdown, Learning to read, UConn Health Center and Newtown
My Canadian cousin called last weekend just after the debt ceiling crisis had shoved the shutdown crisis out of the spotlight. “Who is running your country?” he asked. Who knew? This partisan brawl was unrecognizable to me, a bizarre event in some unknown country. Even when the U.S. Supreme Court anointed George W. Bush in 2000, it was my country going through an odd paroxysm.
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Obamacare report card: Access Health enrollment and the view from other states
Enrollment is underway in the state’s health insurance exchange, one of the major pieces of the federal health reform law, and early numbers offer a chance to take stock of how things are going.
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CT tries new approach to help the 25% of urban students who can’t read
It took third grade teacher Marcy Deschaine three minutes to determine that one of her students was struggling to read. And it took her another three minutes of hearing Corey Lipscomb read from a book about making pizza to determine that this student’s reading was where it should be. “You’re in the green,” Deschaine, who […]
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Malloy raising money in California
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is somewhere in California raising money this weekend from someone for the Connecticut Democratic Party. Just don’t ask where, from whom or for how much. Malloy is attending “multiple events” in the company of Jonathan Harris, the executive director of the state party, but their locale, the cost and who might […]
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Newtown families: Misled about crime scene photos and the FOI Act
Only days before the end of the 2013 legislative session last June, someone (apparently a Fox News reporter) started a false rumor that documentary filmmaker Michael Moore was going to make a Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request for graphic crime scene photographs of the Sandy Hook massacre and then splash those photographs all over the Internet or movie screens. Michael Moore never made any such request, and he never had any intention of making such a request.
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Newtown families: Misled about crime scene photos and the FOI Act
Only days before the end of the 2013 legislative session last June, someone (apparently a Fox News reporter) started a false rumor that documentary filmmaker Michael Moore was going to make a Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request for graphic crime scene photographs of the Sandy Hook massacre and then splash those photographs all over the Internet or movie screens. Michael Moore never made any such request, and he never had any intention of making such a request.
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Connecticut lawmakers help pass deal on shutdown, debt limit
Washington – With the help of votes from Connecticut’s lawmakers, Congress approved an 11th hour deal that raised the debt limit and reopened the federal government. The agreement was approved by the Senate on a 81-18 vote Wednesday evening and by the House, 285-144. President Obama said he would sign it immediately, and the government […]
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Crisis over for now, Connecticut assesses economic damage
Scientist resumed their study of Long Island Sound, an agriculture official emailed farmers that his16-member staff was back in business, and it became a little easier to get Social Security benefits in Hartford as 7,000 federal employees returned to work Thursday in Connecticut.
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Access Health data shows early Obamacare customers are older and choosing Anthem
In its first 15 days of operations, Connecticut’s new insurance marketplace signed 3,847 people up for health care coverage as part of the law commonly known as Obamacare.
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CT Mirror Tour – Generation For Hire/20 somethings in the Connecticut workforce
Connecticut produces thousands of college graduates every year, but does the emerging economic order require the skills they actually possess? What are Connecticut’s employers, educators, and economic development leaders doing to retain a generation of students who entered college at the beginning of the recession — and where will these young adults be in five […]
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Connecticut senators urge VA not to force 23 veterans out of rest homes
Connecticut’s senators Wednesday urged the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to reconsider its order to kick 23 veterans out of rest homes in Hamden, West Haven and Waterbury, where they have been living for 12 years. The department notified the veterans last week that it would no longer pay for their nursing home care as […]
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Auditors cite ‘excessive’ spending at UConn Health Center
The state auditors’ office outlined a series of “excessive” spending practices Wednesday at the UConn Health Center involving professional development, compensatory time, retirement benefits and specialized legal fees topping $800 per hour.