U.S. Senate candidate Chris Murphy has beefed up his campaign press staff with Eli Zupnick, who arrives in Connecticut via the staff of Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, the chairwoman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. The Murphy campaign is downplaying the addition of a new staffer with a DSCC connection, sensitive to the perception […]
DSCC chair shares press aide with Murphy
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Here’s a forum McMahon and Murphy should consider
It’s his bank, her company. What could be fairer?
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A political wunderkind now second-guessed
An element of Chris Murphy’s personal narrative is that he would be the poorest member of the U.S. Senate if elected, a young father who still owes student loans, giving him common ground with struggling middle-class families. It is a biography that could have accommodated a chapter about getting sued after missing rent and mortgage […]
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Early drinking to drunkenness by teens often leads to serious problem by college
Yale researcher Meghan Morean: A short time lag between the teen’s first drink and becoming drunk is a predictor of a serious drinking problem by senior year of college. Teens who have their first drink at an early age and quickly progress to drinking to intoxication are likely to be heavy drinkers and have alcohol-related […]
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Murphy refuses to release credit score, loan documents
The U.S. Senate campaign of Democrat Chris Murphy says it will not release his application for a $43,000 home-equity credit line that Republican Linda McMahon claims was a sweetheart deal from a political ally, Webster bank. Murphy’s campaign spokesman, Ben Marter, responded with a one-word answer when asked by The Mirror if the candidate would […]
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Connecticut lawmakers vote for budget deal
Washington –– All of Connecticut’s House members voted for the six-month “continuing resolution,” which passed the House on a rare bipartisan vote Thursday evening. The House Thursday voted 329-91 for the stop-gap measure that would continue funding the federal government for six months, avoiding another crippling fight and the specter of a government shutdown before […]
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White House: Sequester ‘Deeply Destructive’ to Defense
In response to a demand from Congress, President Obama on Friday released a 394-page list of federal programs that would be cut if lawmakers fail to reach a deficit reduction deal and sequestration, or automatic cuts, is enacted. Few government programs would be spared under sequestration, the report said, but the Pentagon budget would take […]
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State renews permit for Bridgeport Harbor Station Coal Plant
After receiving a record number of comments from the public, the state has renewed the operating permit for Connecticut’s lone coal-fired power plant in Bridgeport. Environmental advocates from groups such as the Sierra Club, the Connecticut Fund for the Environment, and the Bridgeport-based Healthy Connecticut Alliance had worked for months to bring more than 150 […]
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McMahon walks a middle path on abortion
As they search for a wedge issue to blunt the gains Republican Linda McMahon is making among women in the U.S. Senate race, Democrats are turning to McMahon’s overtures to both sides of the abortion debate. McMahon describes herself as pro-choice, but she has won favor in conservative quarters with her embrace of restrictions on […]
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Senate race becomes a toss-up as McMahon batters Murphy
Washington – The national Democratic Party rode in like the cavalry this week to help Rep. Chris Murphy’s campaign for U.S. Senate, but analysts wonder if that’s enough to turn a race that’s been slipping from Democratic hands. It looks like Republican Linda McMahon has drawn blood with her attacks on Murphy and abundant promotion […]
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State wins federal funds to reunite homeless parents with their children
There are hundreds of Connecticut famalies whose children live in foster care because their parents have no home. For 50 of those families, things are about to change. Gov. Dannel Malloy’s administration announced Thursday that Connecticut has been awarded $5 million in federal funds that will reunite 50 families by providing them with affordable housing and […]
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Lawmakers question practice of using long-term funds to provide short-term cash
State government continues to occasionally use money reserved for capital projects to cover operating bills, and then returns the funds later — a practice several critics acknowledged Wednesday isn’t illegal. Neither, they conceded, is it costly. In fact, it effectively allows the state to borrow funds more cheaply than it could if officials sought a […]
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WWE trying to make older, racier footage off limits
World Wrestling Entertainment announced late Thursday night it is removing “some dated and edgier footage” from the web, an apparent effort to keep the clips from becoming fodder in the Senate campaign of its co-founder, Linda McMahon. “Some of this footage has been misused in political environments without any context or explanation as to when […]
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Another Droney steps into public life
One of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s three appointees to the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority today is a lawyer with a stellar resume — and a well-known father and uncle. Nuala Droney is a graduate of Yale and the University of Virginia School of Law, named by one publication as a rising star in business litigation […]
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Murphy changes ad agencies, goes on attack
With a new ad agency on board, the U.S. Senate campaign of Democrat Chris Murphy began an advertising counterattack Wednesday against Republican Linda McMahon, saying the image she is selling “isn’t real.” The commercial is the first produced for Murphy by Message & Media, a new agency the Murphy campaign hired to replace Struble Eichenbaum. […]