Latest Q Poll: GOP’s Tom Foley Leads Gov. Malloy By 43 Percent To 40 Percent in 2014 Rematch; Q Poll Calls Him ‘Mid-40s Malloy’

By On June 19, 2013 · 5 Comments

Republican gubernatorial challenger Tom Foley leads incumbent Gov. Dannel P. Malloy by 43 percent to 40 percent in the latest Quinnipiac Poll released on Wednesday morning as the two rivals prepare for a rematch.

Foley, a Greenwich millionaire and prominent Republican fundraiser who served as the U.S. ambassador to Ireland, narrowly lost to Malloy in [...]

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Tom Foley Doesn’t Want To Talk About Guns; Instead Wants To Talk on Conflicts of Interest

By On April 23, 2013 · 25 Comments

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 [...]

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Tom Foley Says 11 Legislators – 9 Democrat, 2 GOP – Have Conflicts Of Interest; Not Giving Up on Bill; Mentions Cafero, Not Others

By On April 23, 2013 · 16 Comments

Tom Foley is not giving up.

Despite facing a huge buzzsaw of opposition over his bill on conflicts of interest, the former Republican gubernatorial nominee is pushing ahead to resurrect the measure before the session ends on June 5.

At a news conference on Tuesday, Foley announced that 11 legislators – 9 Democrats and 2 Republicans [...]

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Foley On CT Gun Control Bill

By On April 22, 2013 · 7 Comments

Republican Tom Foley, the leading challenger to Gov. Dannel Malloy, continues to dance around a clear answer on the gun control question. On Dennis House’s Face the State, it appeared as if Foley would not have embraced the bill that Republican leaders got behind:

Would I have voted for [...]

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Foley Camp Poll Finds Malloy Vulnerable

By On April 10, 2013 · 15 Comments

A new poll commissioned by Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley suggests Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is vulnerable to a challenge–and that Foley is the strongest GOP contender to unseat the Democratic governor.

The survey of 504 likely voters conducted March 18-20 found that 47 percent ”believe it is time for a new person” [...]

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GOP’s Tom Foley Is Not Giving Up; Says Legislators Essentially Accepting Bribes Through Jobs; Wants Vote on Friday

By On April 2, 2013 · 5 Comments

Tom Foley is not giving up.

After clashing with legislators during a public hearing last week, Foley strongly reiterated his stance Tuesday that there is institutional corruption in Hartford as legislators hold jobs that he says have a clear conflict of interest.

Foley was sharply criticized by three House Republicans who said his proposal was so [...]

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Foley Clarifies: I’m Not Out To Get All Of You

By On March 28, 2013 · 2 Comments

Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley has written state legislators after his tumultuous appearance before the Government Administration and Elections Committee this week. Foley was testifying in favor of a bill that would make it a felony for legislators or immediate family members to work for outside contractors, nonprofit groups or companies that do business [...]

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Larry Cafero Says House GOP Clash With Tom Foley At Public Hearing Wasn’t About Him

By On March 27, 2013 · 12 Comments

The clash between House Republicans and former Republican gubernatorial nominee Tom Foley during a public hearing this week marked one of the most contentious dust-ups of the legislative session so far.

Insiders have said for days that three House Republicans were actually defending their leader, Lawrence Cafero of Norwalk, who has been mentioned in a bitter [...]

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Tom Foley: Kick Bribe-Taking, Sleazy Legislators Out Of Hen House

By On March 26, 2013 · 7 Comments

Tom Foley has apparently decided that he isn’t just running for governor. He’s running against the entire Hartford establishment, Democrat and Republican.

How else can one make sense of Foley’s appearance before a capitol committee yesterday to testify in favor of a “clean government” bill that could make felons out of dozens of legislators — [...]

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GOP’s Tom Foley Clashes Sharply With House Republican Legislators Over Intent Of Bill On Conflicts of Interest At State Capitol

By On March 25, 2013 · 27 Comments

Former Republican gubernatorial nominee Tom Foley came to the state Capitol complex Monday with the straightforward idea of trying to root out conflicts of interest in state government.

But he ran into a major buzzsaw of protest from both Republicans and Democrats over the wording of a bill that he was pushing – and the [...]

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