The executive director of the Connecticut Working Families Organization agreed to pay a $10,000 fine to the Office of State Ethics for lobbying for Paid Sick Days legislation without wearing a badge identifying himself as a lobbyist.

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Tags: Jon Green, Working Families Party, Lobbying, Capitol, Paid Sick Days

(Updated 5:30 p.m.) Her appearance in a 2010 World Wrestling Entertainment ad for the Make-A-Wish foundation was less than two seconds and her name wasn’t even mentioned, so the Federal Election Commission decided to give Linda McMahon’s 2010 Senate campaign a pass.

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Tags: McMahon, wrestling, 2010, Senate, complaint, DiNardo, FEC, Hugh McQuaid

Over the course of 2011 Public Policy Polling found that voters in a lot of states wish they could do their gubernatorial elections over again and pick someone else.

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Tags: Malloy, approval, Blumenthal, Lieberman, gubernatorial, bounce, poll

If I were outgoing state GOP Chairman Chris Healy and my state had been a glaring outlier in the Red Tide of voter discontent in 2010, I would have spent my remaining days in office engaging in introspection as to the cause, and working with my State Central colleagues to ensure a smooth transition for the next chairman so things go better in 2012.

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Tags: Working Families Party, Connecticut, Republican, Chris Healy, lawsuit, campaign finance

The Connecticut Republican Party filed a complaint Friday alleging that the Working Families Party broke state and federal election laws by making illegal monetary transfers to the campaigns of several state officers before last year’s elections.

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Tags: campaign finance, election enforcement, Working Families Party, Republican Party, Healy, Hugh McQuaid

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday in an Arizona case that “trigger” funds in publicly funded campaign programs are in violation of the First Amendment.

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Tags: Hugh McQuaid, Citizens Election Program, campaign finance, free speech, connecticut

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy told his fellow Democrats Monday that they have defied expectations and they will continue to do so, just as he did in his campaign for governor.

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Tags: Malloy, naysayer, labor, unions, concessions, budget, campaign

With the Feb. 22 special elections just around the corner, Secretary of the State Denise Merrill outlined her election reform agenda Monday including a measure that would require towns to report to her office on how many ballots were ordered before an election takes place.

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Tags: Merrill, elections, ballot shortage, special election

(Updated 6:20 p.m.) Less than two weeks after leaving elected office, former Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz announced her intention to run for U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s seat Tuesday morning.

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Tags: Bysiewicz, U.S. Senate, campaign 2012, Lieberman

What went wrong?

That’s the question more than 350 Republicans from across the state tried to answer Saturday morning at CCSU during a conference organized by House Minority Leader Lawrence Cafero and Senate Minority Leader John McKinney.

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