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Campaign 2012

Richter, Ricci Ride To Republicans’ Rescue

by Nicolás Medina Mora Pérez | May 21, 2012 11:38 am | Comments (11)

A moderate hope flickered in Hartford. New Haven’s surviving band of Republicans headed north to catch it.

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Kind Of Neutral, For Now

by Paul Bass | May 14, 2012 4:11 pm

“I can’t conceal the fact,” Joe Lieberman said, “that I have this affection and respect” for Chris Shays.

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Q: Whither Latinos? A: Talking Points

by Nicolás Medina Mora Pérez | May 7, 2012 8:03 am | Comments (7)

Lee Whitnum was asked about the economic hardships of Latinos in the U.S. Her answer: AIPAC is evil.

Susan Bysiewicz was asked about high unemployment among Connecticut’s Latinos. Her answer: Wall Street is too powerful.

So went the latest debate among Democrats running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Joe Lieberman: They brought talking points with them. And they stuck to their talking points—no matter what the question.

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Ron Paul Crushes Gingrich!

by Ariela Martin | Apr 25, 2012 8:10 am | Comments (4)

Mitt Romney swept New Haven’s Republican presidential primary—to the extent that there was a Republican presidential primary.

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8 Turkeys, 2 Humans Show Up At Polls

by Allan Appel | Apr 24, 2012 1:00 pm | Comments (1)

As Mitt Romney’s and Newt Gingrich’s fates hung in the wind, eight wild turkeys marched up to a polling station in West Rock. Nary a human was in sight.

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Voters Charge Absentee Fraud, Intimidation

by Paul Bass | Mar 20, 2012 7:52 am | Comments (12)

When college sophomore Shavalsia Sabb cast her first-ever ballot, she had no idea she would land in the middle of New Haven’s latest voting controversy.

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Murphy Sees. Murphy Clicks. Need Murphy Fix?

by Thomas MacMillan | Mar 19, 2012 8:10 am | Comments (1)

Looking to learn how to cultivate small businesses statewide, U.S. Senate candidate Chris Murphy stepped into a New Haven company that’s a greenhouse of budding new ventures and two other companies that keep adding workers—with no government help.

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City Must Pay Poll Workers To Do Nothing

by Paul Bass | Mar 16, 2012 2:07 pm | Comments (15)

Under state law, New Haven must spend over $24,000 for next month’s Republican presidential primary to hire 128 people to work for 16 hours at 32 polling places—including places where only one lonely Republican has cast a ballot in the past.

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Jackie James Takes Party’s Helm

by Melissa Bailey | Mar 15, 2012 7:43 am | Comments (5)

As New Haven Democrats elected her their first female African-American chairwoman, Jackie James responded to accusations of a power grab by promising to run the organization from the bottom up rather than from City Hall.

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Numbers Change. Results Don’t

by Thomas MacMillan | Mar 8, 2012 5:53 pm | Comments (1)

After more than two hours of painstaking ballot examination, a vote recount turned up new numbers for candidates who ran in a local election this week.

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