Connecticut lawmakers lose battle over domestic violence bill
By Ana Radelat
May 16, 2012 5:46pm

The House of Representatives voted 222-205 to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act Wednesday without a single vote from the Connecticut delegation.

That all-Democratic delegation prefers a bill the Senate approved last month that would extend protections to the gay and transgender communities. The Senate bill would also provide temporary visas to illegal immigrants who suffer domestic violence so their cases could be prosecuted and tried.

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Clark to endorse Roraback as he exits congressional race
By Mark Pazniokas
May 15, 2012 3:50pm

Mike Clark will endorse Andrew Roraback as he exits the congressional race in the 5th District today, a casualty of his inability to raise money in a five-contest for the GOP nomination.

Clark, a former FBI agent and Farmington councilman, is leaving the race two days before the Republican nominating convention, an admission he was short of the minimum delegate support to automatically qualify for an August primary.

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Sen. Eileen Daily will not seek re-election
By Mark Pazniokas
May 15, 2012 11:59am

Sen. Eileen Daily, D-Westbrook, the co-chairwoman of one of the legislature's key money committees, made a surprise announcement today she will not seek re-election this fall.

Daily has been fighting cancer, but she had seemed to be set on another term. She passed up a chance to make her goodbyes from the Senate floor on the last day, as did her Democratic colleague, Sen. Edith Prague of Columbia.

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Bysiewicz forces primary for Senate seat
By Jacqueline Rabe Thomas
May 15, 2012 10:44am

It's official: there will be a Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate.

Susan Bysiewicz, who finished in second place at the Democratic convention, filed the necessary paperwork Tuesday that ensures her a place on the Aug. 14 primary ballot.

"We're excited about going forward," the former secretary of the state told reporters. "Primaries are incredibly helpful for our election process because they get voters involved much earlier."

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Oakes may abandon U.S. Senate bid soon, would back Murphy over Bysiewicz
By Keith M. Phaneuf
May 12, 2012 9:49am

Political newcomer Matthew Oakes, an East Hartford Democrat who's been trying to petition his way onto the Democratic primary ballot for U.S. Senate, said at Saturday's Democratic State Convention he may soon abandon that bid.

Oakes, who already has collected about 9,000 of the roughly 14,600 signatures he needs, said he would decide shortly after the convention whether to continue, or to support U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, D-5th District.

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