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The Lakers have Jack Nicholson. The Knicks have spike Spike Lee. And the UConn women?
None other than U.S. Sen.-elect Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., who sat courtside at the XL Center tonight in Hartford for the record-setting 89th consecutive victory by the Huskies.
Wonder if Jack has a spare set of Ray Bans.
U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., presides over the House as speaker during a late-night session Wednesday in the chamber.
U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., channeled his inner Conan O’Brien just before midnight on Wednesday, subbing for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as the presiding officer of the chamber in front of skeleton crew of lawmakers.
Himes occupied the speaker’s chair for nearly two hours while Republican lawmakers Glenn “GT” Thompson of Pennsylvania, Phil Gingrey of Georgia, Todd Akin of Missoui and Steve King of Iowa railed on “Obamacare,” bailouts and the estate/death tax in front of the mostly empty chamber.
The proceedings aired live on C-SPAN, going up against late-night funnymen Conan, David Letterman and Jay Leno.
With his party relegated to the minority come January, Himes indicated it probably will be the last time he gets to clutch the speaker’s gavel for at least two years.
Counting has resumed at the City Hall Annex Tuesday morning. We have a fewer volunteers than we did on day 1. As a result, we are only able to have 2 groups of counters. As of 10 a.m. Tuesday, we have results from 4 of the precincts completed, which leaves 21 precincts plus the absentee ballots still remaining.
The Bridgeport recount is now one hour underway, but we’re still waiting on the first results.
First up: the City Hall voting district, 130-4.
According to the moderator’s report, there were 278 votes cast at City Hall out of 892 eligible voters.
The portion of that report that we’ve been able to see so far does not indicate how many votes each candidate received. What it DOES show, however, is that the machine-scanner read 174 ballots, meaning that the moderator at City Hall hand-counted 104 ballots.
City Hall started the day with 200 printed ballots, and received 150 photocopied ballots later in the day. It used all but 47 of the photocopied ballots. The district also went through 25 “spoiled,” or incorrectly filled out, ballots, which were never cast.
What that means is this: There were 350 total ballots at City Hall on Election Day that need to be accounted for. Because 47 of them were never touched and 25 of them were “spoiled,” we need to account for 278 ballots cast. (350 – 47 = 303….. 303 – 25 = 278.)
That adds up, so we’re off to a good start.
The process got underway in the early afternoon. That’s when city officials, flanked by recount volunteers and Hearst Connecticut representatives, shuttled about a dozen polling districts’ ballots to City Hall Annex.
More info to follow…
Do you follow U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd on Twitter? If so, you may have been surprised by a tweet sent from his account Thursday morning.
U love torturing me w this sh*t
Senator Chris Dodd
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As noted by NBC Connecticut, nearly 13,000 followers were treated to the account’s first tweet in two days: “U love torturing me with this sh*t,” followed within minutes by an apology. His office also issued a statement:
“Due to a technical mistake, a message was inadvertently sent from Senator Dodd’s twitter account. Senator Dodd did not send the message. We have corrected the situation and apologize to his followers for the mistake and inappropriate language used in the message.”
We’ve all accidentally sent emails to the wrong person, but Twitter leaves open the possibility of accidentally advertising your personal affairs to the entire Internet. This becomes even riskier for folks juggling work and personal accounts on the same device.
Look on the bright side: At least one of Dodd’s followers took the lesson to heart:
The errant tweet from @SenChrisDodd convinced me to remove my work Twitter account from my phone.
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Check out Hearst Media Group investigative reporter Brian Lockhart’s preview to Malloy’s appearance on Face the State Sunday.
Lockhart was among three invitees asked to interview the governor-elect, and he includes a few nuggets on his blog, Political Capitol, in advance of the airing, including this proclamation on the size of state government:
“I think we’re going to put state government on a long-term diet,” Malloy told us. That means, he said, it has to become “much more efficient and be operated by fewer people.”
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