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2014 election
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New poll, same result: Foley, Malloy tied for governor
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Tom Foley goes to the Republican convention next week as the public favorite for the GOP nomination for governor, tied in the general-election match up with the Democratic incumbent, Dannel P. Malloy, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Friday. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Politics, 2014 campaign, 2014 election, 2014 gubernatorial election, Dannel Malloy, Joe Visconti, John McKinney, Mark Boughton
Senate Democratic leader seeks spot as community college president
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Senate President Pro Tem Donald E. Williams Jr. will be interviewed this weekend to become the next president of Quinebaug Valley Community College. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Higher Education, Schools/Child Welfare, 2014 election, community colleges, Donald Williams, Senate President Pro Tem Donald Williams Jr.
Martha Dean calls her campaign a blessing, the media ‘vermin’
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Martha Dean envisioned her first gubernatorial campaign event as a hall packed with thousands, generating the quivering rush of a Saturn rocket lifting off. On Tuesday night, she settled for two dozen people sitting on folding chairs. The only rumble came from a bus. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Politics, 2014 election, Martha Dean, Republican primary
As Malloy reminds New Haven, incumbency has its perks
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New Haven – Gov. Dannel P. Malloy paid a visit Tuesday to the city that produced his biggest plurality in 2010, publicizing a $1 million state grant for a long-delayed community project, one of the benefits of incumbency. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Politics, 2014 election, Dannel Malloy, Toni Harp
Tom Foley declines pre-convention GOP debates
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Tom Foley, the front-runner in a six-candidate field for the Republican nomination for governor, will not participate in debates until after the GOP nominating convention May 17, his spokesman said Thursday. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Politics, 2014 election, debates, Mark Boughton, Tom Foley
Martha Dean opens campaign with appeal to gun owners
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Martha Dean told Connecticut’s largest gun group that her candidacy for governor was an opportunity for besieged gun owners to strike at a Democratic governor and General Assembly hostile to their rights — and to GOP candidates who only pay lip service to their interests. Dean says she will wage a Republican primary only if endorsed by the nominating convention in May. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Politics, 2014 election, CCDL, gun control, gun rights, Martha Dean, newtown, Republican primary
Boughton shakes up GOP race for governor
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Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton stirred up the race for the Republican gubernatorial nomination Tuesday, naming an early running mate, Heather Bond Somers, in a bold bid to boost his appeal to donors and delegates. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Politics, 2014 election, Heather Somers, Mark Boughton
Gun owners see choices in CT governor’s race as bad or worse
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When the Connecticut Citizens Defense League endorsed Republican Tom Foley in the 2010 race for governor, it went unnoticed. The gun owners’ group was just a year old, and gun control barely registered as an issue in Foley’s close contest with Democrat Dannel P. Malloy. Now, it is in rapid-growth mode, with a membership that its leadership says has quadrupled to 10,300 in the year since the Sandy Hook shooting spurred passage of restrictions on purchasing guns, ammunition and large-capacity magazines. Members are getting tutored about the political process, learning how to become delegates to nominating conventions. With 201,038 pistol-permit holders and tens of thousands more owners of rifles and shotguns in Connecticut, they could be a potent voting bloc in 2014. Continue Reading →