Connecticut Local Politics

A couple of interesting tidbits on Friday’s speech by President Bush on Malaria and the Bush-Cappiello fundraiser:
CT News Junkie reports that the President’s speech in front of the Boys and Girls club will not be in front of any actual Boys and Girls, as the speech is in the morning and the club doesn’t […]

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Any of you wealthy GOPers just happen to have a spare $10,000 lying around after the 15th? Well, have I got a deal for you!
The Litchfield County Times is
reporting that the Commander-in-Chief himself, President George W. Bush, will be attending a April 25th fund raiser for State Senator David Cappiello at the Kent, CT home […]

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UPDATE: Forgot to include transfers from authorized committee line below. Also, fixed the link.
Much better than the last two:
Total Q1 Contributions: $229,694.46 ($217,644.46 from individuals; $12,050.00 from PACs and party committees)
Total Cycle-To-Date: $627,354.79
Transfered from Cappiello- CT Victory 08 (Cappiello and the Connecticut Republicans together fundraising): $25,000 (the joint committee’s filing is here)
Q4 Burn: […]

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We’ve all been waiting with baited breath.  Former State Representative Anthony J. Nania will now apparently actually officially decidedly enter the race for Congress and attempt to get the Republican nomination to oppose Democrat Chris Murphy in the 5th CD.  This from Congressional Quarterly:
With his relatively late entry, Nania faced a candidate in Cappiello who […]

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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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Not a huge surprise that this was filed on a Friday Friday night:
Total Q4 Contributions: $131,133.33 ($70,426.00 from individuals; $60,707.33 from PACs)
Total Cycle-To-Date: $397,685.33
Q4 Burn: $97,304.07 (!)
Cash on Hand: $238,247.23
Well, it isn’t as bad as last quarter (>$70,000), but is still about $65,000 less than his debut 2nd quarter. The $200k + change […]

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Posted on behalf of David Cappiello by Headless Horseman
Hi everyone. I’m really happy to be here for my first liveblog on CTLP! Thanks so much for joining me.
As you all know, I announced in April of 2007 that I’d be a candidate for Congress in the Fifth District, and it’s been a whirlwind […]

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I’m pleased to announce that Republican State Senator, and candidate for Congress in Connecticut’s 5th District, David Cappiello will be joining CTLP to talk to us about his campaign for Congress during a live blog.
Where: Right here
When: Thursday, January 17, 2008
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Please join us then.

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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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Not really, but it wouldn’t hurt.
Via MyDD (and please click through, because I borrowed the table from them):

Committee
September Receipts
September Disbursements
September Cash-on-Hand
September Debts & Obligations
Net-Net

DCCC
$8,574,146.27
$2,395,904.87
$28,334,264.70
$2,982,499.61
$25,351,765.09

NRCC
$2,601,743.33
$2,595,275.28
$1,598,505.61
$3,850,000.00
($2,251,494.39)

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Unless something drastically changes, the NRCC simply won’t have the numbers to do anything more in Connecticut than defend the 4th; they will not have the resources for offense, only defense.
For challengers […]

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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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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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David Cappiello’s campaign for Congress against Chris Murphy seems to be getting some attention on the national level.
Stuart Rothenberg, famed analyst of Congressional races who writes for Roll Call and blogs at his own Rothenberg Political Report writes this:

I recently met five GOP House candidates who are running for Congress and attended a […]

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Sen. David Cappiello has called for Lou DeLuca to step down. He is the first Republican senator to do so.
Sen. David Cappiello, of Danbury, who has known DeLuca for 15 years, said calling for the resignation of the former top GOP leader was difficult.
“We all know Lou is a good man who got caught up […]

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