Connecticut Local Politics

I had to check this morning if I was reading the press release of the new Quinnipiac Poll or a Marvel Comic book. (Where’s Connecticut Bob with his Mad Photoshop Skilz when I need him?) Check out this breathy opening paragraph:
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has 35 to 47-point leads over three Republican candidates [...]

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The new Q poll is out, pretty much verifies Blumenthal’s overall “deity” status.
Here’s the AP lede:
“Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal holds a hefty lead in a new poll over his three Republican rivals for the U.S. Senate, giving Democrats a renewed chance of retaining the seat now that Sen. Chris Dodd is out of the [...]

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In 1636, Thomas Hooker and a small band of followers – likely fed up with the bad drivers – made the journey from Boston to the banks of the Connecticut River, where they founded Hartford.
Nearly four centuries later, the land that our ancestors fled is up to its elbows in a special election race for [...]

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PPP should probably get the “Most Serendipitously Timely Poll of the Year” Award for this one (PDF). And it’s news that’s bound to have Rob Simmons, Linda McMahon and Peter Schiff reaching for the Tums.
Chris Dodd’s retirement has shifted one of the Democrats’ most vulnerable seats to one of their safest…Attorney General RichardBlumenthal with [...]

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The political landscape continues to shake on the heels of the announcement that U.S. Senator Chris Dodd will not run for re-election this fall, leaving an opening for Attorney General Richard Blumenthal who will announce his candidacy at 2:30pm this afternoon.
For the Republican candidates, Linda McMahon was on WTIC 1080 with Ray Dunaway this morning and [...]

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Just had a breaking news announcement from the Washington Post moments ago, that Senator Chris Dodd has scheduled a press conference for later today (Wednesday) at which he is expected to announce that he will not run for re-election in November.
According to the Post’s Chris Cillizza:
State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is widely expected [...]

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Remember the strange not so little matter of $567,000 of in-kind donations in Linda McMahon’s 3Q FEC report? The ones The New London Day’s ace reporter Ted Mann questioned in a piece on Dec 11th because they appeared to obfuscate the identity of who was providing what to McMahon’s campaign?
Those outlays are for “computer support,” [...]

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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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An internal poll for the Dodd campaign conducted December 15-17 by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research among 601 likely Connecticut voters found Dodd and McMahon locked in a dead heat with 46 percent of the vote apiece, and the Senator trailing Rob
Simmons by a margin of 46 to 51 percent.
This poll tried to feel out [...]

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The McMahon campaign sent out an email to supporters today showing the results of an internal poll conducted by Hans Kaiser of Moore Information during December 15-16, 2009 among 400 likely Republican voters in the state. According to Ed Patru, McMahon’s communications director, the results show:
remarkable momentum for Linda, even as the numbers paint a [...]

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A new poll released last night by Rasmussen Reports shows that the contest for the U.S. Senate seat remains basically where it was last time a poll was conducted.
Former U.S. Representative Rob Simmons polled at 48% against Dodd’s 35%.  Linda McMahon also polled well, leading Dodd by a 44%-38% margin.  Even Peter Schiff polled slightly [...]

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Former WWE wrestlers sounded off on the candidacy of Linda McMahon, according to an article in Politico:
“If the people in Connecticut are stupid enough to elect Linda, that’s their problem,” added Larry Zbyszko, a onetime Sammartino protégé who debuted in the early 1970s but later battled him in a famed “steel cage” match at Shea Stadium [...]

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After last month’s Superstar Billy Graham story in the Courant that was highly critical of former WWE CEO Linda McMahon and her husband Vince, it seems that more former wrestlers are starting to go public with their grievances about the WWE’s business practices.
Former wrestler and Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura made headlines last week by saying that the WWE violated the [...]

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Republican Mayors Mark Boughton of Danbury and Tim Stewart of New Britain are supporting Linda McMahon’s bid for the U.S. Senate, according to Capitol Watch:
“Washington’s approach to turning around the economy isn’t working, and when something isn’t working, it’s time to try something different,” New Britain Mayor Tim Stewart said in a statement released by [...]

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The Hartford Courant reports that according to Kevin Rennie’s Facebook page, one of his friends says that:
GOP Senate hopeful Tom Foley told the West Hartford Republicans last night that he is considering hightailing it into the less competitive race for governor. He’ll decide in 2 week’ developing…’sounds like decision has been made
Wow. I feel like [...]

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From the Courant:
“She may look like a Sunday school teacher,” Graham said, but he insists nothing could be further from the truth. “Linda McMahon’s hands are as bloody as her husband’s because she is aware of every move in the ring,” he said.
Further in the article:
An aspiring painter, Graham said he intends to create and [...]

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Quinnipiac has a new pollout this morning in the Senate race and the results are decidedly negative for Sen. Chris Dodd.
In addition t0 Dodd’s job approval rating of 40%-54%, every Republican challenger runs well against him in a head-to-head matchup.  Former U.S. Rep. Rob Simmons led Dodd by 11%, former Ambassador Tom Foley led by [...]

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After sleeping on Tuesday’s results, I beg to differ on Vincent’s dismissal of the NY-23 results as due to “The odd vacillations of the even-more-odd Dede Scozzafava” leading to “a win by a walking, talking mediocrity,” because I think this has a clear implications for one of the candidates in the GOPBattleRoyale [...]

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Recently, it started to look at bit like CT GOP Primary contenders Rob Simmons, Sam Caligiuri and Tom Foley had made a “Gentlemen’s Agreement” to lay off each other and instead aim their collective barbs at the $30 million dollar elephant in the room, Linda McMahon.
But appears that’s gone by the wayside. After Simmons [...]

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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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