They use wrecking balls, floating boxes, and even a candidate’s brain scan. Four of the five Republican candidates for governor are on television, competing for attention with ads that offer dashes of biography with promises to cut taxes, shake up Hartford, cut state employee benefits, clean house, fight insiders, restore growth and, yes, think outside the box. All this in 30-second servings.
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Posted inJustice
Newtown group asks Ryan for action as gun control heats up as campaign issue
The Newtown Action Alliance, a gun-control group formed after the Sandy Hook shooting of December, has demanded House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., allow votes on dozens of gun control bills that run the gamut from an assault weapons ban to establishing federal funding research on gun violence.
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Wolf airs first ad in campaign to unseat Blumenthal
August Wolf, a former Olympic shot putter seeking the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 2016, is running his first commercial: a cable television ad urging U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., to oppose the proposed U.S-Iran nuclear deal.
Posted inNews
Op-Ed: Negative political ads fill vacuum of visionary thinking
It has been fascinating to eye-witness one of the most negative advertising campaigns in the nation – Connecticut’s race for Governor. It is popular wisdom to decry the negativity and say that it doesn’t work on “me.” But, of course, the data show that it indeed does.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Negative political ads fill vacuum of visionary thinking
It has been fascinating to eye-witness one of the most negative advertising campaigns in the nation – Connecticut’s race for Governor. It is popular wisdom to decry the negativity and say that it doesn’t work on “me.” But, of course, the data show that it indeed does.
Posted inPolitics
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.
Posted inEducation, Politics
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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Foley, Malloy fight to write the history of the Bibb Co.
Eighteen years after its bankruptcy and four years after its introduction to Connecticut voters in series of political ads, the defunct Bibb Co. of Bibb City, Ga., continues to haunt the political ambitions of its former owner, Tom Foley of Greenwich, Conn.
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As Pelto fades, Visconti ramps up with pitch to gun owners
Can Twitter, the Outdoor Channel and a commercial starring the “Buckmobile,” a customized convertible that once belonged to country star Buck Owens, bring enough national gun money into Connecticut to make pistol-packing, third-party candidate Joe Visconti a factor in the race for governor?
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DGA puts $1.25 million into Connecticut affiliate to oppose Foley
The Democratic Governors Association has made its first major expenditure supporting the 2014 re-election of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, giving $1.25 million to its Connecticut affiliate for television ads attacking the Republican nominee, Tom Foley. Its first ad takes viewers back to Fusion Paperboard in Sprague, where Foley went to criticize Malloy’s economic policies, but ended up in an argument with a local official and workers.
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Tom Foley ad labels governor as ‘Desperate Dan Malloy’
Tom Foley’s new television ad is both an attack on Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s record and an attempt to inoculate himself against Malloy’s efforts last week to define Foley as tone-deaf to the concerns of working-class Connecticut voters.
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Malloy attacks Foley with mashup of GOP ads from ’10 and ’14
John P. McKinney defended his final attack ad against Tom Foley, saying the Democrats would hit him harder and faster. On the first day of the general-election campaign, Democrats posted a newer version of the piece McKinney used to close out the Republican primary for governor.
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McKinney takes hard, closing shot in GOP primary
John P. McKinney is closing his GOP primary campaign with a hard shot at frontrunner Tom Foley, branding him as “arrogant, ill-informed, uncaring” in a commercial that shows Foley scolding workers and a small-town first selectwoman outside a closing paper mill.
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Watch the ads for the Connecticut governor’s race
Want to see how the candidates for governor are trying to sell themselves to you? Here are their ads.
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Foley ad promises ‘new direction,’ but offers no map
Republican Tom Foley’s new ad is a generic swipe at the “same old policies and politicians in charge,” a spot that seems to look past next week’s GOP primary for governor to the November election.