Monthly Archive for September, 2014

: September, 2014

Malloy, Foley debate in West Hartford

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Republican challenger Tom Foley debate at 7 p.m. Tuesday in West Hartford at the University of St. Joseph. Follow along below and join the conversation by tweeting with

Non-profit Vote Smart has info on CT’s race for governor

  Here are some links provided by Vote Smart, the non-partisan, non-profit that unlike your average political clearing house, or politician for that matter, won’t take contributions from special

Dems go guerrilla, or avian, at Foley HQ

Democratic operatives today, pressing GOP gubernatorial challenger Tom Foley on his partial release of income tax summaries last week, rented some costumes for the occasion outside Foley’s Southington

Foley blasts Malloy over insurance commissioner’s frequent travel

The insurance capital has an ambassador: his name is Thomas Leonardi. Leonardi’s frequent travel out of state as Connecticut’s insurance commissioner — a pattern of 115 tips in three years chronicled

Blumenthal mum on attorney general vacancy

He’s sued Microsoft and Big Tobacco. You might say it’s in his DNA. But before you go penciling in the name of Richard Blumenthal as the next attorney general, as some media outlets have speculated,

Union representing 43,000 teachers backs Malloy

  Sheila Cohen, president of the Connecticut Education Association Board of Directors announced this morning that the 43,000-member teacher union has endorsed Governor Dan Malloy for re-election.

Obama Greenwich bound for fundraiser, but not for Malloy

Connecticut can now add President Barack Obama to the carousel of Democratic standard-bearers to visit the battleground state in the build-up to the midterm elections. Preceded by Vice President Joe

Gov. Malloy, in East Hartford, tees off on challenger Tom Foley’s school plan

The day after Republican Tom Foley announced an urban agenda that could allow parents to withdraw their children from failing public schools, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, at Robert O’Brien Middle School on

Foley denies that he lifted parts of his urban action plan

Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley disputed claims by the Connecticut Democrats that passages from his urban action plan, unveiled Wednesday in New Britain, are plagiarized. Giving A through

Dems say Foley plagiarized his urban agenda

State Democrats, reacting after Tom Foley’s rollout of his urban agenda (photo by Ken Dixon), say the Republican gubernatorial candidate plagiarized – “word for word, sentence for sentence – from