Tom Foley is tired of talking about guns.
The former Republican gubernatorial nominee made it clear Tuesday, after holding a press conference at the state Capitol complex, that he prefers talking about issues like the conflicts of interest by state legislators in their outside employment.
“If I were governor, the gun bill would have been very different,” Foley told [...]
Here, Sandy Hook families, including Nicole Hockley in the center, arrive with their luggage at the University of Hartford. After President Obama’s speech, they traveled with him back to Washington aboard Air Force One to lobby members of Congress for gun control.
Connecticut Democratic party Chairwoman Nancy DiNardo said Jerry Labriola, her Republican counterpart, is misrepresenting Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s budget proposal.
“Chairman Labriola is distorting the facts about this budget,” DiNardo said in a statement. “Governor Malloy inherited a mess from the GOP, and has had to spend the first two years of his administration cleaning it [...]
State Democratic party Chairwoman Nancy DiNardo said she doesn’t know all the details about state Rep.-elect Christina Ayala’s recent arrest in connection with a domestic violence incident.
“All I know is what’s been in the paper, I don’t know the…total picture,” DiNardo said. “At face value, it does seem disturbing but at the same time I think the [...]
State Democratic Chairwoman Nancy DiNardo released a lengthy statement Tuesday afternoon praising President Obama’s approach to the fiscal cliff impasse.
“When people in Connecticut went to the polls on November 6th, they sent a clear message to Washington: they want their elected leaders to cooperate to find a solution to bringing down [...]
Television has dominated the presidential debates for more than 50 years, dating back to the famous Kennedy-Nixon debates.
But now, political junkies don’t need to wait 60 or 90 minutes to hear the analysis from the designated campaign commentators in the Spin Room. Reactions are available instantaneously on Twitter and Facebook – and everyone can [...]
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