Connecticut Local Politics

Back when Rep. Chris Shay’s (CT-4) crush, Erik “Helluva Job!” Prince, the CEO of Blackwater USA testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, he refused to answer Rep. Chris Murphy’s (CT-5) questions regarding how much profit Blackwater makes off of government contracts. Upon discovering that the government often has no idea how […]

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Rep. Chris Murphy (D-5th District) will be introducing legislation tomorrow that will reform some pieces of federal juvenile justice policies. Here’s what the law will do, according to a release from Murphy’s office:
In the coming months, Congress will consider the reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevent Act (JJDPA). Working with advocacy groups […]

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On Background had this to say about the recent attacks by the NRCC on Congressman Murphy:
Stop the presses. The National Republican Congressional Committee … thinks rookie Rep. Chris Murphy is a terrible person.
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The committee says he’s been deliberately trying to block the updating of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act…
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The NRCC said Murphy’s $1.2 million […]

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Donna Brazile is the Chair of the Democratic National Committee’s Voting Rights Institute and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University. She also has been named by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies as a special advisor. Here is her statement on the attack ads currently running against Democratic Representatives Courtney and Murphy:
As a […]

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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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UPDATE: Here is the AP story. There will be a rally on Saturday to announce the endorsements…
Later today Saturday, both Congressman John Larson (the fifth-ranking Democrat in the House) and freshman Congressman Chris Murphy are expected to formally endorse Senator Obama for the Presidency. While, generally speaking, there is not a ton […]

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Looks like the rumors are true.
From the Hill:

A former Connecticut state House member is forming an exploratory
committee and is expected to enter the race for freshman Rep. Chris
Murphy’s (D) seat, setting up a primary battle with a candidate who
has earned the early support of national Republicans.
Former state Rep. Tony Nania (R) served three terms in […]

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It’s a sign of things to come in the 5th, I suspect.
Chris Murphy gets tagged by state and national Republicans for accepting campaign contributions from the now-under investigation Haven Healthcare, with one slight problem: it isn’t true.
But even if it was true, so what? Honestly, I don’t even know what the implication here […]

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Congressman Chris Murphy (D-CT05) will be live blogging today on MLN at 6:30 (pending the end time of the vote on Iraq in the House).
I will update when a link becomes available.
Update:  Never mind.  The LiveBlog has been postponed because the Iraq debate has only recently started, and is expected to go late into the […]

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Chris Murphy will report that he has raised over $220,000 this quarter, according to his campaign. Murphy has raised over $1 million total for the 2008 cycle, and will report that he has $940,000 cash on hand.

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The FEC reports are starting to trickle in and David Cappiello followed up his breakout fundraising quarter, one that put him on the radar of the national Republicans and raised him almost $200,000, with a rather weak effort of $70,470 ($48,961 spent for a CoH of $204,368).
A lot of fun has been made, on this […]

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Our state’s 5th District Congressman Chris Murphy has a 99% attendance record this year. That sounds pretty good. The only problem is, on two of the nine votes he has missed this year, the Democrat has been an outspoken crusader on the issue concerned. Most recently, he missed the vote on the “Expanding […]

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The House GOP needs to work on its acronyms. CHOMP, or Challengers Helping to Obtain the Majority Program, is a series of big fundraisers designed to help out Republican congressional challengers. The only Connecticut candidate on the list so far is David Cappiello (Sean Sullivan is absent), who will start reaping the benefits pretty soon:
The […]

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The NRCC has released a radio ad attacking Rep. Chris Murphy:
The 30-second radio spot, which airs on Danbury and Waterbury stations, characterizes Murphy as a hypocrite. Quoting the congressman on the need to get lobbyist money and special-interest money out of elections, an announcer says when Murphy got to Washington he “changed his tune …, […]

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H/T to CTBlogger for the video.

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