Connecticut Local Politics

Forget all pretense of “family friendly”. GOP Senate primary contender Linda McMahon is taking off the gloves and revealing her brass knuckles.
The Stamford Advocate reports today FEC reports show McMahon spent just over $1 million with GOP media consultant Scott Howell, a member of the Karl Rove School of Opponent Sliming. Howell is perhaps [...]

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Middletown DTC issued a press release yesterday reporting some unkosher happenings in the mayoral campaign there, specifically targeting seniors in town. The Committee is getting reports from seniors that they have been told by people “close to Republican Sebastian Guiliano’s campaign” that “Guiliano is a Democrat” – presumably to trick elderly Democrats into voting [...]

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U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon’s Senate campaign confirmed today that Suzan Bibisi will serve as a spokesperson for their organization starting November 2.
The story started to break right here at CTLP in the comments section when “One if by land” dangled a light in this story’s church steeple.
Speaking of McMahon… I hear that Susan Bibisi Healy, wife [...]

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Looks like CT GOP Chairman Chris Healy has some egg on his face. Last week he made a statement Twitter Me When You Can
“concerning the laughable request by the CT Democrats that the CTGOP take down our website and Twitters accounts that focus on legislative Democrats” in which he stated:

“The purchase and construction of [...]

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Facing legal threats, the micro blogging site Twitter has been cracking down on fake accounts set up to impersonate others. These accounts are in breach of Twitter’s Terms of Service, which state:
Content Boundaries and Use of Twitter
In order to provide the Twitter service and the ability to communicate and stay connected with others, there are [...]

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(h/t Shelly Sindland) 
CTGOP Chairman Chris Healy was in Ireland for the last few weeks on a honeymoon tour of the land of his forefathers.  While visiting the Emerald Isle, Healy took time away to visit U.S. Senator Chris Dodd’s Irish “cottage”:
Healy visited the controversial homestead of Connecticut’s Senior Senator on July first and says after [...]

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The Connecticut Republican Party launched a new website today Calling Chris Dodd.  The site compiles many of Sen. Dodd’s ethical transgressions over the last few months into one really funny site, complete with voice acting and a bobblehead Chris Dodd.

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Connecticut Republican Party Chairman Chris Healy will stand for re-election when the CTGOP State Central Committee meets in Bristol this evening. 
Healy announced his intention to run for re-election on Friday in an e-mail to supporters and no challengers have announced an intent to vie for the job.
First elected in January 2007, Healy has been an outspoken leader of [...]

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The Hartford Courant’s Ed Mahony and Jon Lender – the duo widely credited for blowing open the Rowland scandals – have turned their focus to Senator Chris Dodd and his wife, Jackie Clegg Dodd, this week.  Their Sunday story raised questions about the propriety of Mrs. Dodd’s participation on at least five corporate boards – earning [...]

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(updates below)
State GOP Chairman Chris Healy sent out a release today about a complaint they are filing against Speaker Chris Donovan, alleging that he misused public campaign money. From the release:
Healy filed a formal complaint Friday with the State Election Enforcement Commission, which has jurisdiction over the Citizen Elections program. In his complaint, Healy [...]

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The Dodd story continues to make an impact at the state and national level. Dodd, in a lengthy interview with the Courant, has said that he’s definitely running in 2010, however, so forget any thoughts of retirement.
Making matters worse, however, is this story in the Washington Post which examines a report prepared by House [...]

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Remember when Andrew Powaleny caught a lot of flack for posting dumb things on his public Twitter account?
GOP Chair Chris Healy seems not to have learned from that experience. Seriously, some of that stuff is fun and candid, but:
“NY should taz (sic) crack and hookers and they would have a surplus,”
…is a little harder [...]

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On Monday, the Connecticut Republicans put out a press release regarding FISA and the Protect America Act Reauthorization that is laughably inaccurate. Since there are so many inaccuracies, I’m going to go line by line (my comments in bold):
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JANUARY 18, 2008
Unless the CT GOP wrote this release a month [...]

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In a post entitled “A Healthy Debate Needed To Save Lives,” Chris Healy wrote:
Let’s have that debate now before more victims are gathering around a grave or seeking answers to the failed policies of bureacracy [sic] and a Legislature that writes the rules by which they act.
Even though I think we would disagree on most [...]

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Mark Pazniokas, at his blog Capitol Watch, suggests that Chris Healy may have wounded fellow Republican Bob Farr, who is head of the parole board, more than the “liberal Democrats” who were the target of his piece.
Healy accuses the parole panel, which is run by former Rep. Robert Farr, R-West Hartford, of negligence or [...]

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Whoever had six days in the “When will Chris Healy Try to Squeeze Political Advantage out of a Tragedy” pool wins:
One can only wonder where the liberal Democrats like Judiciary Chairmen Mike Lawlor, D-East Haven and State Sen. Andrew McDonald, D-Stamford, will take us in the next legislative session. My guess is the Democrats will [...]

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When it’s hard to write a headline for it, it’s probably something the public doesn’t care about. But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to it. In this case, Republican State Chairman Chris Healy has accused Sen. John Fonfara (D-Hartford), co-chair of the energy committee, of acting unethically:
State Sen. John W. Fonfara, the Hartford Democrat who [...]

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Who knew? But they do. For example, here’s Chris Healy talking about the future of the party in the 2007 and 2008 elections:

I’m impressed by the strides the Republican Party has taken on the internet lately. No reason the Democrats couldn’t do the same.

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Details at the official GOP blog.
I’ll say one thing for CT Republicans, they know how to fall in line. Whether that’s a good or a bad thing depends on your perspective.
Of course the GOP had to keep Healy. Who else could do the job even half as well? As a friend remarked [...]

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File that under headlines you will never see.
Chris Healy reacts to Susan Bysiewicz’s call for Sen. Lou DeLuca to resign on his blog:
Now she believes Lou DeLuca broke the public trust, although no evidence has surfaced he ever used his office to benefit indicted waste hauler James Galante of Danbury. Did he say he would [...]

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