Posts Tagged ‘Connecticut’
CT: State Senator Considers run for Attorney General
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:08 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 17 February 2010 03:04
From The Register Citizen:
Senator and local attorney Andrew Roraback continues to weigh his options for the position of Connecticut Attorney General.
Roraback is currently serving his fifth term as a state senator representing the 30th district, but has recently been mulling the decision to run for the seat which opened up when Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced his decision to run for United States Senate.
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CT: Two Dem Rivals Criticize Secretary of States Use of Database
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:18 Written by rslcpol Friday, 12 February 2010 02:49
From Courant.com:
Two rivals of Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz in the campaign for the Democratic nomination for attorney general raised questions Thursday about her use of an internal database from her office to send thousands of e-mails soliciting political support and campaign contributions.
Bysiewicz’s two Democratic opponents — former state Senate Majority Leader George Jepsen and state Rep. Cameron Staples — both commented on a Sunday Courant story about Bysiewicz’s use of a database, assembled by her office, of 36,000 constituents’ names, including about 9,900 e-mail addresses. In the past year her campaign committee sent thousands of e-mails to people in the database soliciting political support and campaign contributions.
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CT: Dem AG Says Dem Secretary of State Not Qualified to run for Attorney General
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:36 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 3 February 2010 01:43
From ctpost.com:
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today threw a monkey wrench into the race for his successor, announcing that Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz fails to meet the experience requirements.
During a news conference in his office, Blumenthal said Bysiewicz, who recently dropped a bid to run for governor and, instead, run for attorney general, does not have enough years as a practicing attorney.
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CT: Democrat Garfunkel Jumps into Secretary of State Race
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:42 Written by rslcpol Monday, 1 February 2010 02:56
From TheHour.com:
Democrat Andrew S. Garfunkel thinks 10 years as Norwalk’s town clerk make him the perfect candidate to replace Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz.
Garfunkel has filed paperwork to form a campaign to seek the office Bysiewicz will vacate to seek the Attorney General’s office.
“Sometimes the door opens and you have to take the chance,” said Garfunkel, 47, while at a Democratic rally Sunday night in Norwalk. “I am very familiar with the duties of the office… I will go into it full force and wholeheartily.”
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CT: Republican State Rep. Contemplates Run for Attorney General
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:45 Written by rslcpol Friday, 29 January 2010 04:14
From Republican American:
State Rep. Arthur J. O’Neill, R-Southbury, is contemplating becoming a Republican candidate for attorney general.
O’Neill said he plans to decide by the time the legislature opens its regular 2010 session next Wednesday.
“I think I’d like to conclude my thinking by the start of the session because once the session starts it is very hard to start doing things like that,” he said.
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CT: Secretary of State – and AG Candidate – Has New Issues to Explain
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:49 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 27 January 2010 02:23
From Courant.com:
Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz, currently a candidate for state attorney general, has submitted a personal check for $55 to the state’s judicial department to rectify an error she says she made in 2006 – when she obtained a 50-percent exemption from a $110-a-year professional fee by filing a form saying that she didn’t practice law as an occupation.
But Bysiewicz’s effort this week to shed that political embarassment has left her with additional issues to explain:
–Newly surfaced judicial department records show that she didn’t just file for the exemption in 2006, but also did it in 2007 and 2008 by signing identical statements that she didn’t practice law “as an occupation” in those years, either. However, she wrote a letter to the judicial department Monday – which was released to The Courant Tuesday – in which she asked that all three filings be disregarded.
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CT: Republican Explores AG Run
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:50 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 27 January 2010 01:59
From The Day:
John Pavia, a Republican from Easton and a former prosecutor, filed paperwork Tuesday to explore a run for attorney general in Connecticut.
Pavia told The Associated Press he is “seriously” considering a run and will make a decision in the coming weeks. He is the first Republican so far to announce the formation of an exploratory committee for attorney general.
“It has always interested me,” said Pavia, finance chairman for the Republican State Central Committee, a legal analyst and an attorney for the past 20 years. “I don’t think there’s a bigger honor than to be hired to represent the constituents of an entire state.”
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CT: Secretary of State Leads Dem AG Race
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:50 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 26 January 2010 02:47
From Courant.com:
Longtime Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz was the Democratic front-runner when she left the governor’s race to pursue the suddenly open seat of attorney general earlier this month.
From the moment she switched, she became a front-runner again. A Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday showed that she had a huge lead in a potential Democratic primary for the post.
Douglas Schwartz, director of the Quinnipiac poll, said Bysiewicz had reason “to feel good about her poll numbers.” He acknowledged that the poll was still being taken when the controversy broke over whether Bysiewicz has been in “active practice” as an attorney in Connecticut for 10 years. “She’s been getting whacked on a few things here, and her numbers remain high,” he said.
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CT: Secretary of State Wants to Know if She Qualifies to Run for Attorney General
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:53 Written by rslcpol Friday, 22 January 2010 12:28
From Capitol Watch:
Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz Wednesday followed through with her intention, stated last week, to formally request a legal opinion from state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal as to whether she meets the state’s statutory qualifications to run for attorney general herself.
Her request fuels an existing controversy over whether she has accumulated “at least 10 years’ active practice at the bar of this state” – which is what state law requires Connecticut’s attorney general to have. The controversy erupted last week, almost as soon as Bysiewicz declared her candidacy for attorney general – the office to which Blumenthal is not seeking re-election as he runs for the U.S. Senate.
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CT: Dem AG Candidate Still Hasn’t Sought Opinion of her Eligibility
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:56 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 20 January 2010 01:32
From Capitol Watch:
As of Tuesday afternoon, Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz still had not given Attorney General Richard Blumenthal the formal request that she vowed last week to submit, seeking his legal opinion on whether she qualifies as a candidate for attorney general. But, about 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, a spokeswoman for her campaign said that Bysiewicz would submit a formal letter sometime Wednesday.
Campaign spokeswoman Tanya Meck said Bysiewicz is still working on the request but “the plan is to get it to [Blumenthal]” by Wednesday.
One question being asked around the Capitol in recent days has been whether she would formally request the opinion by using her official position as secretary of the state – or if she would simply ask in her role as a candidate for office. Meck said Tuesday it will be the former – in her official capacity.
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