With inflation on the rise, Bob Stefanowski echoed Ronald Reagan’s question from 1980: Are you better off than four years ago?
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Ben Proto elected CT state Republican party chair
Connecticut Republicans elected Ben S. Proto Jr., a longtime GOP operative and elections lawyer, as their state chair Tuesday night.
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Richard Foley, a GOP chief who taunted the FBI, dies at 71
Dick Foley wasn’t known for flinching. He led the GOP when Connecticut was still a swing state.
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Himes, Courtney tell GOP to keep Syrian refugee policy out of budget bill
WASHINGTON ā U.S. Reps. Joe Courtney and Jim Himes. Democrats who gave the Republican Party a veto-proof majority on a bill that would suspend Syrian and Iraqi refugee admissions, are now demanding the billās language be left out of a massive budget bill.
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With $1.2 million haul, Blumenthal kicks off campaign cash chase
WASHINGTON ā Although he has yet to announce his political intentions, Sen. Richard Blumenthal raised more than $1.2 million in campaign cash this year ā a sign he’s mounting a race for re-election.
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Homeland Security: Assessing the impact of a shutdown in CT
What would be the impact in Connecticut of a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security? The risks depend on who you ask. But among the certainties are that TSA workers at Connecticut airports and most staff at the Coast Guard Academy in New London would be working without pay.
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Former CT lawmaker asks Obama to speed legal immigration
WASHINGTON ā Former Democratic Rep. Bruce Morrison, who once represented a New Haven-based district in Congress, has jumped smack into the center of a massive lobbying effort aimed at persuading President Obama to make wide changes in immigration law.
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Congress to move ahead, then freeze up, on jobless benefits
Washington ā Because Congress failed to act, Joanne Lavieri of Manchester received her last unemployment check at the end of March and faces a very uncertain future.
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Presidential popular vote advocates lobbying CT GOP
The National Popular Vote campaign is back in Connecticut, one of the 38 states ignored in 2012 by the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
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House GOP, teachers’ union want to revisit Common Core
With the 2014 General Assembly session one week away, House Republican lawmakers Wednesday called for a public review of the controversial Common Core education standards.
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A little Connecticut PAC that provoked a big response
Leadership Connecticut PAC, the Republican political action committee that drew fire from Gov. Dannel P. Malloy this week and attracted street-theater protests Thursday night outside a cigar bar in New Haven, is an obscure player that pumped a modest $10,500 into the stateās multi-million-dollar political economy during the 2012 election cycle.
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Itās time to face the facts and fix the problems
Like a ship adrift at sea, our state is rudderless. Leadership seems bent on serving every interest except the publicās, and the inevitable outcome has been a nonexistent economic recovery and increasing financial insecurity for people all across the state.
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Itās time to face the facts and fix the problems
Like a ship adrift at sea, our state is rudderless. Leadership seems bent on serving every interest except the publicās, and the inevitable outcome has been a nonexistent economic recovery and increasing financial insecurity for people all across the state.
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Foley courts gun owners without promising Sandy Hook repeal
Middletown — Republican gubernatorial contender Tom Foley told the stateās largest gun group Tuesday night that he would block further gun-control legislation if elected, but he has no plans to seek repeal of the sweeping changes to the stateās gun laws approved last year in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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Foley tweaks Malloy with TV ad — in NYC
Heās not an official candidate yet, but Republican Tom Foley on Monday rolled out the first television commercial of the 2014 race for governor. With a big wink to the voters and media back in Connecticut, it airs exclusively ā and ever-so-briefly ā on cable in New York City. To make a point about Connecticutās […]