Monthly Archive for June, 2014

: June, 2014

Office of State Ethics fines Diageo and Pfizer $5,000 each for unreported partying at 2012 Democratic National Convention

Diageo North America, Inc. the liquor and wine importer and Pfizer, Inc. the druggists, violated the state Code of Ethics by failing to report expenditures associated with receptions that each hosted

Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley set to get $1.35 million on Wednesday

Here is the agenda for Wednesday’s meeting of the State Elections Enforcement Commission meeting, which will approve grants for upcoming primaries. Foley, who spent more than $11 million of his

Nice work if you can get it: Esty’s daughter snags White House internship

It’s good to be Sarah Esty. You went to Harvard. You’re on track to get your MBA and JD from Yale. Your LinkedIn profile screams over-achiever. And now the White House is calling. Esty, the

Nappier to fill her coffers in New Canaan

In Connecticut politics, the treasury goes by another name: the Gold Coast. Democrat Denise Nappier, the nation’s first black female state treasurer and Connecticut’s longest-serving statewide office

Rell: Malloy “lies”

She was the last Republican to win a statewide election in Connecticut. Eight years later, former Gov. M. Jodi Rell may have accidentally thrust herself back into the cauldron as an unlikely messenger

Another delay for Foley’s application for public campaign funding

For Tom Foley, crossing the Ts isn’t as simple as it sounds. For the second week in a row, the GOP’s endorsed candidate for governor had his application for public campaign funding held up. Foley

McKinney to pool cash with Walker to try to qualify for public funding

At a competitive disadvantage in ballot position and in fundraising, state Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, R-Fairfield, will resort to pooling political contributions with running mate Dave

Foley uses money bomb to try to qualify for public campaign funding

Republican Tom Foley recast his net for additional contributors late last week to try to qualify for $1.4 million in public funding funding for his campaign for governor, Hearst Connecticut Media has

Lauretti misses cut for GOP primary for lieutenant governor

Republican Mark Lauretti’s candidacy for lieutenant governor — a marriage of convenience between the Shelton mayor and Danbury counterpart Mark Boughton that lasted just four weeks — flatlined

Final petition numbers totaled by the Secretary of the State for Mayor Mark Lauretti’s aborted run for Lt. Gov

In the end, Shelton Mayor Mark Lauretti, who was going to be the default running mate for Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton, came in way short of the 8,190 signatures of registered Republicans needed to be