Election 2010

GLASTONBURY--Rob Simmons Friday launched the second and last television ad of his recently revived campaign for the GOP U.S. Senate nomination, a 30-second spot extolling public service and including an implicit jab at his principal opponent, Linda McMahon. Read more

The debate over whether to have a debate is over: Ned Lamont promises to show up at the Rocky Hill studios of WFSB next Tuesday to debate Dan Malloy in the Democratic race for governor.

But if Democrats now expect their contenders for an elusive political prize to dial back the negative ads, disappointment awaits. Neither camp is standing down. Read more

Gov. M. Jodi Rell notified lawmakers Thursday that she will veto any proposal to fix the state's public campaign finance system if it includes increasing the grant amounts.

The legislature's Democratic leaders say increasing the grants is essential to preserve the system, but they're not sure they have the votes to override a veto. Read more

Tom Foley and Lt. Gov. Michael Fedele frequently sparred Thursday night, ignoring the underfunded Oz Griebel during a televised debate of the Republican candidates for governor.

But Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell took the most punches as Foley blamed her administration for the fiscal crisis. And Fedele worked from the opening bell to distance himself from his boss. Read more

Republican Linda McMahon's first advertising attack on Democrat Richard Blumenthal in the U.S. Senate race is a mailer that casts his admitted misstatements about his Vietnam-era service as calculated lies.

The mass mailing began arriving Tuesday, as Blumenthal and McMahon skipped a debate and left Republicans Rob Simmons and Peter Schiff to gently confront each other and two minor-party candidates, John Mertens and Warren Mosler.

Simmons, who suspended his campaign in May, arguably made news just for showing up and uttering a simple, declarative sentence: "I am running for the U.S. Senate." Read more

A Superior Court judge Tuesday rejected Michael Jarjura's effort to block Kevin Lembo from using public financing in their Democratic contest for state comptroller.

The terse order by Judge James T. Graham frees Lembo to begin spending the $375,000 awarded to him last week for his Aug. 10 primary with Jarjura, the mayor of Waterbury. Read more

Democratic gubernatorial candidates Dan Malloy and Ned Lamont will hold telephone town halls tonight, taking calls from voters on an evening when they were invited to debate in New London.

Maybe they can call each other.

Malloy intends to first hold a press conference outside the Garde Arts Center, where The Day of New London and WTNH, Channel 8 had hoped to stage a televised debate with the two Democrats. Read more

In a WNPR radio debate of the two Democratic candidates for lieutenant governor today, the first question posed by a listener: Does Connecticut really need a governor in waiting?

For the record, Nancy Wyman and Mary Glassman believe the job they are seeking is necessary, though each conceded that lieutenant governors often have had little to do, other than wait for the boss to move on. Read more

Just five weeks after petitioning his way onto the Republican U.S. Senate primary ballot, Peter Schiff says he is unlikely to continue propping up his struggling campaign with his own money.

His last gasp as a U.S. Senate candidate likely will come this week with an online plea for money to air commercials.

"If I can't raise the money, I have to decide if I want to pay for it myself," Schiff said. "At this point, my answer would be no." Read more