Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has an eight-percentage point lead over Republican Tom Foley in a survey by Public Policy Polling, a firm with a reputation for reliability and ties to Democrats. Malloy, the first-term Democrat, led Foley, 43 percent to 35 percent, with petitioning candidate Joe Visconti supported by 9 percent in a poll released Monday afternoon.
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Malloy and Foley stage slugfest on character, integrity
Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Republican Tom Foley sharply questioned each other’s character, ability and records Thursday night in the season’s wildest debate, a televised confrontation that resurrected Foley’s long-ago night in jail and Malloy’s brush with a mayoral corruption investigation in which he was cleared.
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GOP mayor gets taste of ‘candy’ denounced by Foley
A day after Republican Tom Foley denounced Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s election-season grant-making as distributing political “candy,” the Democratic governor delivered $3.8 million to a city run by a GOP mayor working for Foley’s election.
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Foley campaign at impasse with NBC over upcoming debate
Republican Tom Foley is unlikely to participate in the three-way gubernatorial debate scheduled for Oct. 23 at the West Hartford studios of NBC Connecticut, a campaign spokesman said Wednesday. Petitioning candidate Joe Visconti was expected to face off with Foley and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
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In 2nd debate, Malloy is proud and Foley incredulous
In a televised debate Tuesday night, Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Republican challenger Tom Foley met in a political Twilight Zone, each unable or unwilling to recognize the reality of the other’s Connecticut.
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Malloy, Foley debate tonight; Visconti excluded
Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and his Republican challenger, Tom Foley, will meet tonight at 7 in a debate televised live on WFSB. The petitioning candidate, Joe Visconti, was not invited. The debate is the second of seven.
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It’s a trick question: Who earns more, Malloy or Foley?
Republican Tom Foley shared summaries of federal tax returns Friday that showed business losses and alimony left the Greenwich businessman and gubernatorial nominee with no taxable income in 2011 and an adjusted gross of $20,462 in 2012, far less than the public employee who now occupies the Executive Residence.
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Malloy sees, seizes opportunity in Foley’s school plan
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy moved quickly Thursday to exploit what Democrats say is an ill-considered and impractical proposal by Republican Tom Foley to allow urban parents to pick the local public school of their choice and strip money from failing schools as their children go elsewhere.
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Foley’s urban agenda: something borrowed, something new
In the first extensive public policy press conference of his second run for governor, Republican Tom Foley released an urban agenda Wednesday that echoes or revises long-tried policies on crime and jobs, while imposing a strict “marketplace” standard on failing urban schools.
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Malloy goes positive on air, negative on ground
Trailing in the polls, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is pursuing a shrinking pool of uncommitted voters with a TV ad that presents a softer side of the governor and with a line of attack on the campaign trail that portrays Republican Tom Foley as anti-worker and anti-middle class.
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Foley TV ad pledges to make ‘every school in Connecticut great’
Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley says in his latest TV ad that he has “a plan for making every school in Connecticut great,” a promise that could fall short on two measures: His only published plan is an outline of five bullet points, one of which would strip failing schools of money, potentially hastening their demise.
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Quinnipiac Poll: Foley leads Malloy by 6 points in governor’s race
Quinnipiac University’s first survey of the Connecticut governor’s race in four months found Republican Tom Foley leading Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, the first-term Democrat, by 6 percentage points among likely voters with two months left in their campaign. In a poll released Wednesday, Foley’s lead was 46 percent to 40 percent, with petitioning candidate Joe Visconti at 7 percent.
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Follow the campaign cash with the Money Map
Want to follow the flow of cash to Connecticut’s Democratic and Republican parties? Start in Greenwich, then drive next door to Stamford. In those two communities, you’ll find the sources of one in every five dollars contributed in itemized individual contributions since Jan. 1, 2013. Or, you can sit at your computer and roll your cursor across The Mirror’s new Money Map, an easy tool to see where the two parties have been getting their money.
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Still communicator-in-chief, Clinton offers Malloy a tutorial
As always, Bill Clinton made it simple. He told Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, a first-term Democrat with uncertain re-election prospects in a slowly improving economy, he had a good story to tell: Things were bad four years ago. You made them better. Just…tell…your…story.
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It’s Labor Day, and unions’ message is fear Foley, favor Malloy
Unions can’t promise Gov. Dannel P. Malloy a win just by being with him in 2014. But of the few certainties in the business of campaigns and elections, count on this: Malloy, the first Democratic governor of Connecticut in a generation, is a lock to lose to Republican Tom Foley without them. The unions know that, so does Malloy.