Connecticut’s gubernatorial ad wars got personal Tuesday as Democrat Ned Lamont asked Republican Bob Stefanowski to stop airing a television commercial that Lamont says falsely implicates his wife, venture capitalist Annie Lamont, in profiting from a British payday lender, Wonga.
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Democrat Ned Lamont has served as the 89th governor of Connecticut since Jan. 9, 2019. He has been recognized for his leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Stefanowski, Lamont take liberties in payday loan allegations
Republican Bob Stefanowski ran a payday lending company. The venture capital firm that employs Democrat Ned Lamont’s wife as managing director invested in one. Both are facts featured in misleading television ads in Connecticut’s gubernatorial campaign.
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Obama, who picked Lieberman over Lamont in ’06, makes amends
Barack Obama delivered an endorsement of Ned Lamont’s candidacy for governor Monday, citing a moment of courage that Obama found less inspiring a dozen years ago when he urged Connecticut Democrats not to abandon Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman for Lamont over the war in Iraq.
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Lamont wins CT state police union endorsement
The Connecticut State Police Union on Thursday endorsed Democratic gubernatorial contender Ned Lamont after citing the potential threat his GOP challenger, Bob Stefanowski, would have on its members’ wages and benefits.
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A gubernatorial debate with a new player, but the same answers
STORRS — The presence of a third candidate, Oz Griebel, in a gubernatorial debate Wednesday night did nothing to nudge Republican Bob Stefanowski and Democrat Ned Lamont toward providing details on how they would close a projected deficit of more than $2 billion or finance improvements to a rapidly failing transportation infrastructure.
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Lamont offers tax relief in jobs plan, but no plan to pay for it
Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ned Lamont unveiled a jobs plan Wednesday centered on three business tax cuts — and a previously disclosed middle-class income tax break — none of which he could provide without solving a much-larger state budget deficit.
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New ‘atlas’ tracks social media sentiment for Lamont, Stefanowski, other candidates
WASHINGTON – A new political tool that tracks sentiment on social media every day showed that more people said nice things about Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ned Lamont than his Republican rival Bob Stefanowski . But the Political Atlas said Stefanowski had Lamont beat when it came to “favorability” which also took into account how many times his name was mentioned on social media.
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A night of zingers courtesy of Stefanowski and Lamont
NEW HAVEN — The Republican and Democratic candidates for governor pummeled each other in their second televised debate Monday, offering practiced one-liners that energized a Shubert Theater audience dominated by Realtors, while giving voters little new information on how either would close a projected deficit of $2.1 billion awaiting the next governor.
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Dems try to link Stefanowski to Trump’s health care policy
NEW HAVEN – U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy tag-teamed with Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ned Lamont on Friday to paint the candidate’s Republican rival, Bob Stefanowski, as a Trump acolyte when it comes to health care policy.
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Stefanowski’s cash is tight, but GOP’s outspending Lamont on TV
Republicans are outspending Democrats on television advertising in the race for governor of Connecticut this month, even as questions persist about the financial resources directly available to the campaign of the GOP nominee, Bob Stefanowski.
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A two-man debate with room for a third, Dannel P. Malloy
The first head-to-head debate by Democrat Ned Lamont and Republican Bob Stefanowski ended Wednesday night without Connecticut voters learning how either man would close a $2.1 billion deficit or how Stefanowski would begin to deliver on his audacious promise to eliminate the state income tax.
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Lamont calls DMV ’emblematic of state government’
You probably think of the DMV as just a place to get your license or registration — usually after an interminable wait. Comics have long used it as a punchline. Ned Lamont on Monday became the latest politician to use it as a metaphor for what is wrong with government bureaucracy.
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New chapter in governor’s race opens Wednesday
The first opportunity for side-by-side comparisons of Democrat Ned Lamont and Republican Bob Stefanowski, each a businessman trying to become Connecticut’s next governor without significant government experience, will come Wednesday night on the stage of a 1920s movie palace enjoying a second life as a performing arts center.
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Lamont, Griebel jab absent Stefanowski over income tax pledge
Gubernatorial contenders Ned Lamont and Oz Griebel took advantage of Bob Stefanowski’s absence at their first debate Wednesday to criticize their rival’s controversial pledge to phase out the state income tax.
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With labor, Lamont carefully treads a path blazed by Malloy
Ned Lamont has spent months trying to distance himself from the unpopular Democratic governor he hopes to succeed, but when it comes to the public-sector unions that bedeviled his predecessor, Lamont faces the same dilemma: How to keep labor’s support in difficult fiscal times?