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Entries Tagged as 'John DeStefano'

Are You VIP Vibe Groovy? Just Ask City Council Members

July 29th, 2010 · 24 Comments · City Council, Events, State Politics

VIP Update: Who’s attending the Gathering of the Vibes? The annual hippie fest along the Seaside Park waterfront in tribute to the late Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia kicks off today for four days of music, love (we hope) and peace (perhaps a pipe).
How many city officials will get in for free? And what say you about [...]

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The Bridgeport Connections, Sizing Up Malloy-Lamont Fight, Plus: Mayor’s Community Forum

July 20th, 2010 · 21 Comments · City Politics, Political Analysis, State Politics

Three weeks to Tsunami Tuesday and counting. The state’s largest city is a player in the Democratic gubernatorial primary battle between Dan Malloy and Ned Lamont, and an eclectic group of city pols–sometimes together, sometimes not–are split among one of the men who could become governor.
Let’s start with Ned. A contingent of political players who include Mayor [...]

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Who’s Your Caddie? Plus: Schiff On Ballot

June 21st, 2010 · 18 Comments · City Politics, Library, Political Analysis, State Politics

An interesting configuration of local pols, sometimes friends, sometimes not, are lining up behind their respective Democratic candidates for governor.
Ned Lamont received the backing of the entire Bridgeport delegation at the state party convention last month. Some delegates went with the flow to be cooperating members of Team Lamont led by Mayor Bill Finch and Democratic Party Chair Mario Testa, even [...]

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Can Someone Figure Out The Ferry Fight? Plus: Himes’ Pelosi Peel

June 9th, 2010 · 25 Comments · Development, National Politics, State Politics

The city has a transportation jewel, the Bridgeport and Port Jefferson Steamboat Company terminal downtown.
Some one million travelers each year traffic the city’s ferry terminal owned by the Bridgeport Port Authority. Many head over to Port Jefferson, Long Island from the city and surrounding suburbs, and some come over from the other side of the pond [...]

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Malloy-Lamont Race, Big Difference; Malloy Camp Awarded $2 Million

June 4th, 2010 · 29 Comments · Political Analysis, State Politics

In 1994 I was campaign manager to Joe Ganim’s Democratic gubernatorial bid. Joe ended up as the lieutenant governor candidate with party-endorsed John Larson, now a congressman. A funny thing happened on the way to the general election. Larson got his butt kicked by State Comptroller Bill Curry in the primary. Not without a lot [...]

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Hand Me Your Proxy

May 21st, 2010 · 20 Comments · City Politics, Cops, State Politics

The Dem and GOP conventions start tonight. You wanna be a delegate? Or an alternate, at least? Democratic Town Chair Mario Testa has been scrambling for folks to go to Hartford in place of delegates who cannot, or don’t want to, go to Hartford for a couple of days. Bridgeport has 77 delegates to the state convention, the most [...]

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Rick Being Rick, When Mario Blew Up The Convention, Himes’ Bounty And Zoo Tickets!

May 14th, 2010 · 26 Comments · Education, Events, Library, Political Analysis, State Politics

Weekend Update: What? Former Bridgeport GOP Town Chair Rick Torres said something controversial at a forum for Fourth District Congressional candidates? No way. Rick wouldn’t say something controversial, would he?
The Connecticut chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations criticized the statements by Torres, who said, referring to Muslims while discussing illegal immigration, “It turns out, [...]

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