McMahon and Murphy tangle over Medicare, jobs

They are wasting no time. A day after the primaries, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon’s campaign began automated calls Wednesday to 300,000 older voters, accusing Democrat Chris Murphy of voting to cut their Medicare benefits — a mischaracterization of the record. And Murphy challenged McMahon to a debate next week on their jobs plans. […]

Washington — Connecticut voters are in for a knock-down, drag-out contest for the 5th Congessional District seat — courtesy, in part, of the national Republican and Democratic party organizations. As far as both national parties are concerned, the most competitive candidates have won their respective primaries on Tuesday; and before the night was over they […]

Leo Canty is a strong advocate — for labor, for Democrats and, for much of the last year, for why Windsor deserves its own House district. One of the overlooked ironies of last night’s primaries is Canty’s potential role in denying Windsor its victory. At his urging, the map-makers drew a district that is dominated […]

New Haven — After handily defeating former Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz in the Democratic primary Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy wasted no time launching what is sure to be an expensive, highly charged race against Republican opponent Linda McMahon for Connecticut’s open U.S. Senate seat. The three-term representative quickly portrayed himself as the champion who […]

Connecticut’s congressional primary season came to the end of its long, strange road Tuesday night with the nominations of Democrat Elizabeth Esty and Republican Andrew Roraback in the 5th Congressional District, the most competitive of the state’s five U.S. House seats. A composed House Speaker Christopher G. Donovan of Meriden, the Democratic front-runner until wounded by a fundraising scandal, […]

Stamford — The wine was still chilled and the cheese had barely begun to reach room temperature when Linda McMahon’s supporters began to celebrate her win in the Stamford Hilton ballroom — less than an hour after the polls closed. Christopher Shays concedes to McMahon The win was a stark contrast with McMahon’s 2010 primary […]

Bridgeport — State Rep. Andres Ayala Jr. won a three-way Democratic primary for the state Senate’s 23rd District seat, defeating incumbent Edwin A. Gomes and blocking the return of former Sen. Ernest Newton II to the state Capitol after a prison sentence. With a primary victory usually tantamount to election in this heavily Democratic city, […]

Up against a looming court-ordered deadline to reduce the racial isolation of Hartford’s largely black and Hispanic school population, the State Board of Education must soon decide whether to take away one of the major incentives suburban white parents have to send their children to an integrated magnet school: free preschool. “I don’t know what […]

Candidate:Susan BysiewiczParty:DemocratOffice Seeking:U.S. SenateBackground:Secretary of the State:1999 to 2011State Representative: 1993 to 1999AttorneyEducation:Yale University; J.D., Duke University Law SchoolWebsite:www.susanforct.comFacebook:/susanforctTwitter:@SusanforCT {“dataSourceUrl”:”//docs.google.com/spreadsheet/tq?key=0Ajo4oXjWuKj8dGY2U1dab1k3dmczYWJpN2dnd3B6cHc&transpose=0&headers=1&range=A1%3AB6&gid=0&pub=1″,”options”:{“titleTextStyle”:{“bold”:true,”color”:”#000″,”fontSize”:”14″},”vAxes”:{“1”:{“useFormatFromData”:true},”0″:{“useFormatFromData”:true}},”booleanRole”:”certainty”,”title”:”Campaign finances as of July 25, 2012″,”legendTextStyle”:{“color”:”#222″,”fontSize”:”12″},”animation”:{“duration”:0},”hAxis”:{“useFormatFromData”:true,”viewWindowMode”:”pretty”,”viewWindow”:{}},”isStacked”:false,”width”:600,”height”:371},”state”:{},”chartType”:”BarChart”,”chartName”:”Chart 1″} Source: Federal Election Commission

Candidate:Christopher ShaysParty: RepublicanOffice Seeking:U.S. SenateBackground:U.S. Representative: 1987 to 2009State Representative: 1974 to 1987Assistant to the Mayor of Trumbull: 1970-1971Peace Corp: 1968 to 1970Education: BA, Principia College; M.B.A., New York University; M.P.A., New York UniversityWebsite: www.shaysforussenate.comFacebook: /ShaysforUSSenateTwitter: @CShays {“dataSourceUrl”:”//docs.google.com/spreadsheet/tq?key=0Ajo4oXjWuKj8dE5ScncxR1VEQnpnX0VQS3ZoaE9qSUE&transpose=0&headers=1&range=A1%3AB6&gid=0&pub=1″,”options”:{“vAxes”:{“1”:{“useFormatFromData”:true},”0″:{“useFormatFromData”:true}},”series”:{“0”:{“color”:”#cc0000″}},”title”:”Campaign finances as of July 25, 2012″,”booleanRole”:”certainty”,”animation”:{“duration”:500},”hAxis”:{“useFormatFromData”:true,”viewWindowMode”:”pretty”,”viewWindow”:{}},”isStacked”:false,”width”:600,”height”:371},”state”:{},”chartType”:”BarChart”,”chartName”:”Chart 1″} Source: Federal Election Commission

Candidate:Linda McMahonParty:RepublicanOffice Seeking:U.S. SenateBackground:Former CEO of WWE Inc.Former member of State Board of EducationEducation: B.S., East Carolina UniversityWebsite:www.lindaforsenate2012.comFacebook:/lindamcmahonTwitter:@Linda_McMahon {“dataSourceUrl”:”//docs.google.com/spreadsheet/tq?key=0Ajo4oXjWuKj8dHpWMVI4amFLVmt4NmFDNlFaVkJFUnc&transpose=0&headers=1&range=A1%3AB6&gid=0&pub=1″,”options”:{“titleTextStyle”:{“bold”:true,”color”:”#000″,”fontSize”:”14″},”vAxes”:{“1”:{“useFormatFromData”:true},”0″:{“useFormatFromData”:true}},”series”:{“0”:{“color”:”#cc0000″}},”title”:”Campaign Finances as of July 25, 2012″,”booleanRole”:”certainty”,”animation”:{“duration”:500},”hAxis”:{“useFormatFromData”:true,”viewWindowMode”:”pretty”,”viewWindow”:{}},”isStacked”:false,”width”:600,”height”:371},”state”:{},”chartType”:”BarChart”,”chartName”:”Chart 1″} Source: Federal Election Commission

Candidate:Christopher MurphyParty:DemocratOffice Seeking:U.S. SenateBackground:U.S. Representative for the 5th District: 2006 to presentState Senator: 2003 to 2006State Representative: 1999 to 2002Former AttorneyEducation:B.A., Williams College; J.D., University of Connecticut Website: www.chrismurphy.comFacebook: /ChrisMurphyCTTwitter:@ChrisMurphyCT {“dataSourceUrl”:”//docs.google.com/spreadsheet/tq?key=0Ajo4oXjWuKj8dEdhU0dZTUFxVlVfSTRwN3JubmEzLXc&transpose=0&headers=1&range=A1%3AB6&gid=0&pub=1″,”options”:{“titleTextStyle”:{“bold”:true,”color”:”#000″,”fontSize”:”14″},”vAxes”:{“1”:{“useFormatFromData”:true},”0″:{“useFormatFromData”:true}},”booleanRole”:”certainty”,”title”:”Campaign Finances as of July 25, 2012″,”animation”:{“duration”:500},”hAxis”:{“useFormatFromData”:true,”viewWindowMode”:”pretty”,”viewWindow”:{}},”isStacked”:false,”width”:600,”height”:371},”state”:{},”chartType”:”BarChart”,”chartName”:”Chart 1″} Source: Federal Election Commission