Mike Clark, the retired FBI agent who led the corruption investigation of former Gov. John Rowland, ended a campaign for Rowland's old congressional seat Wednesday, concluding he had neither the money nor delegate support to wage a primary.
His withdrawal two days before the GOP convention narrows the field to four. And it ends any chance of what could have been compelling talk radio: an interview with his old quarry, who now is an afternoon drive-time radio host.
Read moreGov. Dannel P. Malloy is backing an effort to resurrect the bipartisan jobs bill that was killed in a game of political chicken by House and Senate Democratic leaders a week ago on the last day of the annual legislative session.
"I have expressed my support for that in personal conversations with a number of individuals," Malloy said Wednesday after addressing a business group at the XL Center. "I think there were a lot of good things in that bill."
Washington -- Congress' move to abolish the American Community Survey, a U.S. Census program that reveals how Americans live, work and shop, has provoked an outcry from academics, researchers, local officials and even the business community who rely on the data.
"We live in a democracy and a democracy needs to have the facts in order to distribute government money," said Lynne Hodgson, a sociology professor at Quinnipiac University.
Read moreWashington -- The latest skirmish over what Democrats call "the war against women" has broken out over a domestic violence law.
The Republican-led House will consider a bill Wednesday that would extend the Violence Against Women Act without expanding protections to undocumented immigrants and the gay and transgender community.
Democrats favor a bill that would pull those groups under the law's umbrella.
Read moreDemocrats endorsed House Speaker Christopher G. Donovan of Meriden for Connecticut's only open congressional seat Monday night, but former state Rep. Elizabeth Esty of Cheshire and Dan Roberti of Kent qualified for an Aug. 14 primary. Donovan, 58, who has been organized labor's greatest ally in the General Assembly, won 66 percent of the vote.
Read moreNew Britain -- U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy won an easy first-ballot Democratic convention endorsement for U.S. Senate on Saturday with 76 percent of the vote, but former Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz vowed to force an Aug. 14 primary.
The only question at the anticlimactic convention had been how much of a struggle Bysiewicz would have to win 15 percent of the vote, the threshold to qualify for a primary without having to collect signatures from 2 percent of registered Democrats. She finished with 24 percent.
Washington -- Big money is already being spent in the race for retiring Sen. Joe Lieberman's seat, but this is just the beginning of the expected blowout.
Republicans need only four more seats to win the majority in the Senate; Democrats are at a disadvantage because 22 of their seats are up for re-election, compared with 10 Republican seats.
"Democrats have to hold Connecticut if they have any chance of retaining control of the Senate this year, so the stakes both locally and nationally are very high," Moscardelli said.
Read moreHow raw are feelings between House and Senate Democrats over each chamber's killing the other's favored bills Wednesday, the annual session's last night? The Senate pointedly quashed plans for the joint post-session press conference its leaders typically hold with House counterparts.
"Last night, they told us they weren't interested," Doug Whiting, communication director for the House Democrats, said Thursday.
The Connecticut Senate gave final approval early Wednesday to what the national advocacy group Common Cause said would be the strongest campaign-finance disclosure law in the United States.
But the general counsel for Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said the bill is plagued by practical and constitutional flaws, an assessment that appears to raise the possibility of a veto by the governor.
For the first time since his election in 2010, Comptroller Kevin Lembo is playing a political role as the first openly gay statewide official in Connecticut, urging the Democratic National Committee to take a stand against North Carolina's ban on gay marriage.
"He brings experience. He's been elected."
Mike Clark on endorsing State Sen. Andrew Roraback for the Republican nomination for the 5th Congressional District race.
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