Some Connecticut Republicans didn’t flinch at questions about the president’s furious efforts to stay in office. One did.
Bob Stefanowski
Bob Stefanowski is the 2022 Republican nominee for Connecticut governor. He is a business executive who first ran for governor in 2018, losing to Democrat Ned Lamont.
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Lamont to name GOP’s Mark Boughton as the state’s taxman
Mark Boughton vowed to cut taxes as a GOP candidate governor. Now, he’s going to collect them for a Democrat.
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Candidates face an extra opponent: the coronavirus
In a time of social distancing, how can candidates introduce themselves to voters and get on the ballot?
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Lamont’s property tax relief pledge comes due in February
To keep his 2018 campaign pledge, Lamont must deliver $375 million in property tax relief. That isn’t looking likely.
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Best of 2019: Debunking Connecticut’s enduring tax myth
There’s an oft-told tale about the income tax. And it’s completely false.
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Debunking Connecticut’s enduring tax myth
There’s an oft-told tale about the income tax. And it’s completely false.
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Lamont denies ouster of UConn trustee is political payback
The governor won’t reappoint long-serving trustee Denis J. Nayden, who backed Lamont’s Republican opponent Bob Stefanowski last fall.
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A blue wave? Actually, the blues got bluer, but the reds also got redder
A blue wave swept across Connecticut to give Democrats solid majorities in the General Assembly, but the race for governor offered little sign of a political realignment: If anything, the reds got redder and the blues got bluer on the state’s electoral map.
Almost 100 towns voted more strongly in favor of the party they had chosen in 2014.
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Stefanowski concedes race to Lamont: ‘He won fair and square’
In a live call to a supportive morning radio team, Republican Bob Stefanowski publicly conceded the Connecticut governor’s race to Democrat Ned Lamont today, saying after a long and see-saw night of slow returns, “He won fair and square.”
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Voters go to polls in Connecticut’s ‘extraordinarily odd year’
Buffeted by conflicting state and national political currents, Connecticut voters go to the polls today to cast votes for statewide and legislative candidates, many who have tied their fortunes to how the electorate feels about two men not on the ballot, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and President Donald J. Trump.
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Murphy says vote for Griebel is vote for Trump, others ask him to drop out
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chris Murphy on warned Connecticut voters that casting a ballot on Tuesday for independent gubernatorial candidate Oz Griebel was “as good as a vote for Donald Trump.” Meanwhile, a coalition of progressive groups in Connecticut asked Griebel, and his running mate Monte Frank, to drop out of the race because he’s pulling support from Democratic candidate Ned Lamont.
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Gubernatorial candidates split on justice reforms, but quietly
Overlooked in a campaign consumed by fiscal issues, criminal-justice reforms enacted by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy are a quiet wedge issue in the race to succeed him, with Republican Bob Stefanowski taking advice from the governor’s loudest critic on crime, Sen. Len Suzio of Meriden. Democrat Ned Lamont and independent Oz Griebel say Malloy got this one right.
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Lamont to labor: ‘We’re going to be fighting for you’
NEW BRITAIN — Gubernatorial candidate Ned Lamont, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy and the rest of the statewide Democratic ticket vowed loyalty to organized labor at a rally Friday, promising to fight in Hartford and Washington to protect collective bargaining and the right to organize at a pivotal time for public-sector unions in the U.S.
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Lamont, Stefanowski, expand their fight on New York’s airwaves
Democrat Ned Lamont and Republican Bob Stefanowski are now battling for Connecticut’s governor’s seat on the airwaves of New York. Both candidates, running neck and neck in the polls, have last-minute ads up in the pricey New York media market hoping to reach more voters in southwestern Connecticut.
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Down by 2 points yesterday, Lamont up 9 today
In nine public polls by four pollsters, Democrat Ned Lamont has topped Republican Bob Stefanowski in all but one. Other than an early poll that did not screen for likely voters, Lamont’s leads have ranged from four to nine percentage points. Whatever the numbers, the race generally is rated a toss up.