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Duff, D’Amelio detail campaign expenses in State filing
Updated, 7:24 a.m.: information added; 6:52 a.m.: Copy edits NORWALK, Conn. – Financial details of the various campaigns for state office are available online, in filings that were due at midnight Wednesday. The campaign for State Sen. Bob Duff has paid The SoNo Group a $20,000 fee for running his campaign. The SoNo Group’s president…
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Early bills for 2016 session focus on tax reform
HARTFORD, Conn. – Lawmakers in the House and Senate have filed 18 bills in anticipation of the opening of the 2016 legislative session in less than a week. One of the busiest lawmakers was Rep. Melissa Ziobron (R-East Hampton), who has submitted four bills. One would remove the state sales tax from parking fees at…
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Opinion: The long, quiet death of campaign finance reform
Susan Bigelow is an award-winning columnist and the founder of CTLocalPolitics. She lives in Enfield with her wife and their cats. This week Democratic leaders floated the possibility of suspending public financing of campaigns as a way to close the current budget gap. Even though they backed down under pressure, it’s just one more sign…
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Dems would scrap clean election program to balance budget
HARTFORD, Conn. – The legislature’s Democratic majority released a proposal Monday to close a $350 million budget shortfall by, among other things, suspending Connecticut’s landmark campaign finance system for the 2016 election cycle.
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Former top Cafero aide sentenced to year and a day in kickback scheme
HARTFORD, Conn. – Former House Republican Chief of Staff George Gallo was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison Thursday in federal court in Hartford for steering Republican candidates to a direct mail company in Florida in exchange for kickbacks.
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Opinion: CT Legislature should close loopholes to preserve Citizens Election Program
Cheri Quickmire is the executive director of Common Cause in Connecticut There is one thing we agree with Suzanne Bates from the Yankee Institute about, “money gets into politics — to influence.” We would clarify that outside, shadowy, dark money sneaks in to move a mostly unknown agenda that the movers are trying to hide.…
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Election highlights flaws in campaign finance system
HARTFORD, Conn. – Good government advocates concede that the state’s clean election program may need some work after this year’s election cycle. On one hand, 2014 was a banner year for Connecticut’s public campaign finance system. Both candidates for governor, all the candidates for constitutional office, and more than 80 percent of the candidates for…
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Deadline to qualify for public financing is Friday
HARTFORD, Conn. –. The State Elections Enforcement Commission has given out more than $30 million in campaign grants since May, but more than 60 people, including candidates for attorney general, comptroller, state representative, and state senator still haven’t qualified for the grant.
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Rodgerson gets Citizen’s Election Program funding
WILTON, Conn. – Democrat of Wilton has qualified for the Citizens Election Program (CEP) for the 2014 general election. Rodgerson is a candidate for the 143rd House District state representative set currently occupied by Republican Gail Lavielle, who is running for reelection. “I am truly humbled by the wide-ranging support from the district and the…
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Candidate filings reveal disparate financial pictures
Updated Monday night with comment from Art Scialabba. NORWALK, Conn. – Local state senate and state representative candidates are assembling their campaign “war chests,” with some candidates waiting – and hoping – for an influx of state cash to revive moribund bank accounts. There are three primary races in Norwalk, two on the Democratic side…
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Watts election filings show how he qualified for CEP grant
NORWALK, Conn. – To try to clear up the roiling controversy that has popped up in our comments regarding the Citizens Election Program grant to Democratic 137th District state representative candidate David Watts, we combed through the candidate filings made by his wife and campaign treasurer, Kathleen Watts.
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Morris, Watts receive Citizens’ Elections Program grant
This story was originally posted Thursday evening. This is a rewrite to add David Watts qualifying and his comments. NORWALK, Conn. – State Rep. Bruce Morris (D-140) and Democratic Party-endorsed state rep. candidate David Watts (137th District) have officially been notified they have qualified for a $27,850 grant from the Citizens’ Elections Program (CEP) for…
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Third time’s the charm for Foley and public financing
HARTFORD, Conn. – State elections regulators awarded Tom Foley a $1.35 million public financing grant Wednesday, making the 2010 Republican gubernatorial candidate and former self-funded candidate officially a participant in the Citizens Election Program. Foley, the Republican nominee in 2010 and the candidate endorsed by delegates during the nominating convention, announced in May that he…
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State confirms public funding for Garfunkel campaign
NORWALK, Conn. – Andy Garfunkel, the Democratic Party nominee to represent the 142nd District in the Connecticut General Assembly, will receive funding under the Citizen’s Clean Elections Program. The former Norwalk Town Clerk, who served 10 years before trying to unseat then-Mayor Richard Moccia in 2011, is running to replace retiring State Rep. Larry Cafero…
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Malloy, Garfunkel among candidates awarded public funding Wednesday
HARTFORD, Conn. – State election regulators approved a $6.5 million grant Wednesday for the joint re-election campaign of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman, as well as grants for Norwalk’s Andy Garfunkel and eight other state and local campaigns. In order to qualify for the public funding, the campaign had to raise…
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Lavielle gets Citizen’s Election Program funding approval
WILTON, Conn – State Rep. Gail Lavielle (R-143), who is running for re-election to the state House of Representatives, has received approval from the Connecticut State Elections Enforcement Commission to take part in the Citizens’ Election Program (CEP). The approval came May 29 as part of the first round of approvals announced by the state.…
