Get ready for Tuesday’s tussle.
You know what they say about East Side politics? I went to a Democratic town committee meeting there the other day and a hockey game broke out. Well, the East Side is known for high sticking, body checks and oh baby, absentee ballots. Do you believe in magic? A couple of hundred absentee [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Chris Dodd'
East Side AB-racadabra, Plus: Merrick’s Time To Bloom
March 1st, 2010 · 19 Comments · City Council, City Politics, State Politics
Tags: Angel DePara·Chris Dodd·Danny Martinez·Dick Blumenthal·Linda McMahon·Maria Valle·Mario Testa·Mary-Jane Foster·Merrick Alpert·Testo's Restaurant
BOE Bucks And Pissy Pols
February 24th, 2010 · 13 Comments · City Budget, Education, National Politics, State Politics
Last year the Board of Education gave back $4 million to help ease the city’s deficit pain. Don’t expect that to happen again. In fact, the BOE finance leader is requesting a 10 percent increase.
Tags: Bill Finch·Chris Caruso·Chris Dodd·Épernay Bistro·Jim Himes·Joe Lieberman·Keith Rodgerson·Pat Crossin·The Gallery at Black Rock
What A Screwing, Plus: Ernie Newton, ‘The Moses Of My People,’ released, And Shays Weighs Big Decision
February 19th, 2010 · 107 Comments · Education, National Politics, Political Analysis, State Politics
Weekend Update: Did you catch this from the Hartford Courant:
HARTFORD — Connecticut came away with absolutely nothing in a competition for $1.5 billion in federal transportation grants this week, angering the congressional delegation enough that it has demanded a meeting with federal Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood next week.
Connecticut is one of just nine states to come [...]
Tags: Chris Dodd·Chris Shays·Ernie Newton·Hartford Courant·Jim Himes·Jodi Rell·Joe Ganim·John Ramos·John Rowland·Michael Fedele·Tom Foley
Blumenthal Casts Doubt On SuBy, Plus Steel Language, And Live And Die By The Budget
February 2nd, 2010 · 46 Comments · City Budget, City Politics, Development, State Politics
Afternoon Update: Yikes! Be careful what you request.
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal dealt, at the very least, a public relations blow to Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz who wants Dick’s job as he seeks Chris Dodd’s U.S. Senate seat. SuBy asked Dick for an opinion: does she have the legal professional qualifications to run for [...]
Tags: Andre Baker·Bill Finch·Bob Walsh·Chris Dodd·Dick Blumenthal·George Jepsen·Hartford Courant·Jim Holloway·Jodi Rell·John DeStefano·Susan Bysiewicz
Dodd’s Dough, Kohut’s Calling, Linda’s Lion, Musto’s Magic, Meet Malloy
January 18th, 2010 · 25 Comments · Development, Events, State Politics
Chris Dodd has at least two million clams left in the campaign account of his U.S. Senate seat for which he’ll not seek reelection.
What to do with it? Give it back to those jolly corporations that plied him with dough through the decades? Nah. Give it to candidates? Possibly. Give it to charity? Could be. Hey, I [...]
Tags: AmyMarie Vizzo-Paniccia·Angel DePara·Anthony Musto·Bill Finch·Bob Curwen·Bob Scinto·Carlos Silva·Chris Caruso·Chris Dodd·Dan Malloy·Dick Blumenthal·Ed Gomes·Jack Hennessy·Jeff Kohut·Linda McMahon·Michelle Lyons·Quinnipiac University·Rich Paoletto·Rob Simmons·Warren Blunt















