World Wrestling Entertainment’s threat to sue the Journal Inquirer for libel over a column comparing its programming to pornography took a new twist with the newspaper filing an elections complaint. In a complaint lodged last week with the Federal Election Commission, the JI alleges that WWE is working to assist the Senate campaign of its […]
2012 Election
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Roberti toughens response to Donovan campaign scandal
One of House Speaker Christopher G. Donovan’s two Democratic rivals in the party primary for the 5th Congressional District, Dan Roberti, toughened his stance Friday on the scandal plaguing the state House speaker’s campaign. One day after issuing a very cautious statement professing that “our campaign does not wish to inflame any issues surrounding the […]
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No GOP primary in 4th CD
With an announcement by Chris Meeks that will not pursue a primary in the 4th Congressional District, the Republicans are left with definite congressional primaries in only the 2nd and 5th districts. In the 2nd, Daria Novak is waging a primary for the second time in as many years. She lost two years ago to […]
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CCAG endorses Murphy and Donovan in Democratic primaries
One of the state’s leading progressive advocacy organizations, Connecticut Citizen Action Group, announced endorsements Wednesday for Democrats Christopher Murphy and Christopher Donovan. Murphy, Connecticut’s 5th District congressman, picked up the endorsement of the Democratic State Convention two weeks ago to run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by four-term incumbent Joseph I. Lieberman of […]
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Sen. Eileen Daily will not seek re-election
Sen. Eileen Daily, D-Westbrook, the co-chairwoman of one of the legislature’s key money committees, made a surprise announcement today she will not seek re-election this fall. Daily has been fighting cancer, but she had seemed to be set on another term. She passed up a chance to make her goodbyes from the Senate floor on […]
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Clark to endorse Roraback as he exits congressional race
Mike Clark will endorse Andrew Roraback as he exits the congressional race in the 5th District today, a casualty of his inability to raise money in a five-contest for the GOP nomination. Clark, a former FBI agent and Farmington councilman, is leaving the race two days before the Republican nominating convention, an admission he was […]
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Oakes may abandon U.S. Senate bid soon, would back Murphy over Bysiewicz
Political newcomer Matthew Oakes, an East Hartford Democrat who’s been trying to petition his way onto the Democratic primary ballot for U.S. Senate, said at Saturday’s Democratic State Convention he may soon abandon that bid. Oakes, who already has collected about 9,000 of the roughly 14,600 signatures he needs, said he would decide shortly after […]
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Brian K. Hill begins petition drive to qualify for Senate primary
Brian K. Hill kicked off a petition drive Saturday to qualify for the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, even though he says he expects to win at least 15 percent of the GOP convention vote, the other qualification route. “We are confident that we can get on the Republican ballot at the convention in a […]
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Clark to file FEC complaint about Rowland’s role in 5th CD
Mike Clark, the congressional candidate who investigated Gov. John G. Rowland as an FBI agent, said today he will file a federal elections complaint to force an opponent, Lisa Wilson-Foley, to disclose whether her husband’s business is paying Rowland for campaign consulting. Rowland, who pled guilty to corruption charges after he resigned in 2004, is […]
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The small, small world of John Rowland
The campaign of congressional candidate Mark Greenberg says that former Gov. John G. Rowland offered political consulting services before Greenberg ran in 2010, but he wanted to be paid through the candidate’s nonprofit animal shelter — not the campaign. The story, which was first reported by the Register-Citizen and confirmed by Greenberg spokesman Chris Cooper, […]
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Lieberman goes agnostic on 2012 races
Just as Linda McMahon gave him a shoutout in the Connecticut Republican senate debate, Joseph I. Lieberman swore off endorsements in 2012.
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McMahon to release taxes
Linda McMahon said during a Senate debate tonight she will eventually release her tax returns. McMahon, who says she filed for an extension, did not say when they will be released. Her chief rival for the GOP nomination, Christopher Shays, and the three leading Democrats all have released their returns.
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Murphy says he pays 22.4 percent in taxes
Following up on a promise made earlier this week, Rep. Chris Murphy, D-5th District, released his 2011 federal and state tax returns Wednesday. Murphy and his wife Catherine Holahan reported joint salaries of $220,125 and no other income except $160 from a refund on last year’s taxes. Murphy’s congressional salary is $174,000. Murphy and his […]
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Roraback won’t release wording of favorable poll
Republican state Sen. Andrew Roraback’s campaign for Congress in the 5th Congressional District is sharing a brief polling memo that portrays him as the strongest candidate in the general election. “When NEUTRAL information on EACH of the Republican candidates is introduced to voters, only Andrew Roraback exceeds 50% in a hypothetical ballot matchup against a […]
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Shays raises $455,638 for Q1
The good news for the U.S. Senate campaign of Chris Shays is that he outraised his chief rival for the GOP nomination, Linda McMahon, in the first quarter of 2012, $455,638 to $172,390. The bad news, of course, is that the independently wealthy McMahon, who spent $50 million on her first run in 2010, can […]