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	<title>CT Politics &#187; Neil.Vigdor@scni.com (Neil Vigdor)</title>
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		<title>CEO Perry: not-so-hostile takeover</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/06/13/ceo-perry-not-so-hostile-takeover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 03:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rick Perry’s surrogates deny that politics are behind the Texas governor’s courtship of Connecticut businesses, most notably members of the firearms industry. Lucy Nashed, a spokeswoman for Perry, emailed Hearst Connecticut Newspapers the following statement in response to comments by Connecticut’s economic development commissioner Catherine Smith calling Perry’s upcoming visit here a “head scratcher.” “As<a href="http://blog.timesunion.com/politicssource/ceo-perry-not-so-hostile-takeover/5479/">  Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tale of the Tape</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/06/11/tale-of-the-tape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 01:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil.Vigdor@scni.com (Neil Vigdor)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A look at how the Constitution and Lone Star states stack up ahead of Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s visit to Connecticut to lure businesses to his home turf.]]></description>
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		<title>Deep in the heart of Connecticut</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/06/11/deep-in-the-heart-of-connecticut/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil.Vigdor@scni.com (Neil Vigdor)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So many panhandles, so little time for Rick Perry. Texas has one. Ditto for Connecticut, where the governor of the Lone Star State and former Republican presidential candidate is scheduled to visit Monday as part of what some are billing as a job-poaching tour of the Northeast. Despite the nature of Perry’s upcoming trip, which<a href="http://blog.timesunion.com/politicssource/deep-in-the-heart-of-connecticut/5435/">  Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Murphy open to minor concessions on background checks; says ammo limits a longshot</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/06/10/murphy-open-to-minor-concessions-on-background-checks-says-ammo-limits-a-longshot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil.Vigdor@scni.com (Neil Vigdor)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consumed by the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre for most of his first six months in the Senate, Democrat Chris Murphy on Monday signaled that he would be willing to consider minor concessions when it comes to universal background checks for firearms purchases if it would help resuscitate federal gun control legislation. Murphy, who represented<a href="http://blog.timesunion.com/politicssource/murphy-open-to-minor-concessions-on-background-checks-says-ammo-limits-a-longshot/5418/">  Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Big D is for Dubya: Bush bundlers reprise role for presidential library</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/04/21/the-big-d-is-for-dubya-bush-bundlers-reprise-role-for-presidential-library/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 02:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil.Vigdor@scni.com (Neil Vigdor)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an afterlife for Bush Pioneers and Rangers, the monikers given to the top bundlers of campaign contributions for George W. Bush. It can be found on 5.2 acres of Dallas real estate on the campus of Southern Methodist University, home of the George W. Bush Presidential Center. A library, museum and think tank,<a href="http://blog.timesunion.com/politicssource/the-big-d-is-for-dubya-bush-bundlers-reprise-role-for-presidential-library/5246/">  Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>All in the family: George P. Bush returns to ancestral turf for cash</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/03/14/all-in-the-family-george-p-bush-returns-to-ancestral-turf-for-cash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What Hyannis Port is to the Kennedys, Greenwich is to the Bushes. And now the fourth-generation flag-bearer for one of the nation’s most powerful political families is about to make his debut in the fertile stomping grounds of his grandfather and great-grandfather. George P. Bush, who this week filed paperwork to run for land commissioner<a href="http://blog.timesunion.com/politicssource/all-in-the-family-george-p-bush-returns-to-ancestral-turf-for-cash/5078/">  Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The NRA, unvarnished</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/03/01/the-nra-unvarnished/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil.Vigdor@scni.com (Neil Vigdor)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Rifle Association has more in common with the White House and Congress than you think. Its switchboard has been overwhelmed since the Dec. 14 massacre at Newtown’s Sandy Hook Elementary School. So much so that the organization’s lobbying arm recorded this very telling greeting for its callers: “Your call is very important to<a href="http://blog.timesunion.com/politicssource/the-nra-unvarnished/4976/">  Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>NASCAR takes a different kind of left turn?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/02/22/nascar-takes-a-different-kind-of-left-turn/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/02/22/nascar-takes-a-different-kind-of-left-turn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil.Vigdor@scni.com (Neil Vigdor)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Waltrip will be the sentimental favorite in Sunday’s running of the Daytona 500 for Connecticut. The two-time winner of the “Great American Race” will be driving the No. 26 car as a tribute to the 26 victims of the Sandy Hook Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, 20 of them children ages 7 and<a href="http://blog.timesunion.com/politicssource/nascar-takes-a-different-kind-of-left-turn/4914/">  Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Walker busts a move</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/02/15/walker-busts-a-move/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil.Vigdor@scni.com (Neil Vigdor)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a fierce competition for dance floor supremacy among deficit hawks. Enter David Walker, the former U.S. comptroller general, who 18 months ago was weighing a bid for U.S. Senate in his home state of Connecticut. A former Republican who turned independent 14 years ago, Walker shimmies to the beat of the “Harlem Shake” in<a href="http://blog.timesunion.com/politicssource/walker-busts-a-move/4911/">  Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sandy Hook teacher to be guest of second lady at State of the Union</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/02/12/sandy-hook-teacher-to-be-guest-of-second-lady-at-state-of-the-union/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil.Vigdor@scni.com (Neil Vigdor)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kaitlin Roig, who is credited with helping to save the lives of 15 of her first-grade students by hiding them in a bathroom during the Dec. 14 shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, will be a special guest at tonight’s State of the Union address in Washington, D.C. “Dr. (Jill) Biden’s office [...]]]></description>
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