DARIEN – Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan thanked a crowd of more than 300 well-heeled donors Sunday, telling them that their money would help finance presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s television commercial blitz during the campaign’s final month.
The brief stop in Darien was the second of three fundraisers Sunday, following a noon reception at the [...]
The hilltop mansion of Arnold Chase attracted a crowd of theatrical protestors who gathered for a visit by Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan on Sunday morning. Ryan is making three fundraising appearances in Connecticut Sunday — West Hartford, Greenwich, and Darien — but there are no public events. Courant reporter Chris Keating will attend the fundraiser at [...]
Little Connecticut has only seven electoral votes, but it has lots of cash.
That’s why Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan is coming for three events in West Hartford, Darien, and Greenwich on Sunday in order to raise big money to fill the campaign coffers. It is the same reason why Vice [...]
… and $10k gets you a seat at the roundtable.
On Sept. 30, the GOP vice presidential candidate will be at the big house on top of Avon Mountain:
Here are the details if you want to go:
From a Boston Globe story over the weekend, Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virgnia’s Center for Politics, says just 8 “swing” states will decide the presidential race:
“In my view it is likely that 42 states are over.”
The states: Colorado, Nevada, Ohio, Wisconsin, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina and Virginia.
Here’s another sign that the presidential race may be a whole lot tighter in Connecticut than anyone realizes.
Members of the West Hartford Republican Women’s Club are being told that Paul Ryan, the GOP vice presidential nominee, will be in town to attend a private luncheon fundraiser on Sunday, Sept. 30.
“That’s the plan,” said [...]
He won’t copy actor Clint Eastwood or mimic his fellow governor and political antagonist, New Jersey’s Chris Christie.
But Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is preparing his own speech for the Democratic National Convention, which opens in Charlotte, N.C., tonight, on the heels of last week’s Republican party in Tampa, Fla. Malloy will [...]
The issue is not the economy that Barack Obama inherited, not the economy as he envisions, but this economy that we are living. College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with [...]
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy nationalizes Connecticut politics. He was in New Hampshire over the weekend. He will be in Charlotte next week. This was at the state Capitol earlier today. More of this to come. Video from Capitol Bureau Chief Christopher Keating.
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