Update: News release from Congressman Jim Himes:
Himes Gives Back Rangel Campaign Contributions
Washington, D.C. – Following a ruling against Ways & Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel (NY-15) by the House Ethics Committee, Congressman Jim Himes (CT-4) announced that he will donate to charity the contributions Mr. Rangel made to his campaign.
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John Gomes, the city’s deputy chief administrative officer who was suspended without pay for an altercation with city police, has been terminated.
Gomes had been in charge of the city’s highly touted government efficiency CitiStat program. Several weeks ago Gomes was involved in a beef with police that responded to a complaint at a Cape Verdean social club [...]
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If you’re a Republican who’s your candidate for governor? Lieutenant Governor Michael Fedele? State Senator John McKinney?
If you’re a Democrat who’s your candidate? Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz? Outgoing Stamford Mayor Dan Malloy? Ned Lamont?
And if you’re not a donkey or elephant, let us know your preference. Jodi Rell’s decision to reject another term throws [...]
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5:30 p.m. update: Okay, here’s the City Council primary lineup for September 15.
District 135: Peter Clarke and Mary McBride-Lee have qualified to challenge incumbents Warren Blunt and Richard Bonney. So has Isa Mujahid who is running solo.
District 136: Mark Trojanowski, running solo, was certified to take on incumbents Angel DePara and Carlos Silva. This is [...]
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Congressman Jim Himes will not be easy to knock off in 2010. The first-term Democrat will have several million to dump in his reelection effort and the support of Barack to juice an urban turnout.
That’s not stopping Republicans from lining up to try to reclaim Connecticut’s Fourth Congressional District that the GOP held for nearly 30 years before [...]
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8:30 a.m. update: So, the other night I was subjected to sharing the stage with the irrepressible City Councilman Bob Troll Walsh on Rob Foley’s Bridgeport Now cable access program.
For the uninitiated, Rob’s show is sorta like answering questions inside a clothes dryer. You tumble here, tumble there against the entertaining host’s rapid-fire questions. It’s a [...]
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