Senate
The financial past of both Chris Murphy and Linda McMahon is being used by both camps to paint the other candidate as irresponsible.
Murphy’s campaign is bringing up McMahon’s involvement in the 1976 bankruptcy of the WWE – then known as the World Wrestling Federation. According to the Associated Press, McMahon’s company owed $1 million to creditors.
‘‘It’s wrong that McMahon made hundreds of millions of dollars at the WWE but still has not paid back the people she owes from her foreclosure and bankruptcy,’’ said Ben Marter, a spokesperson for Chris Murphy.
McMahon’s campaign is honing in on Murphy’s past, where he missed mortgage payments on his home and tax payments on his car, reports the Hartford Courant.
Second District
East Lyme's First Selectman Paul Formica was busy with town business at a Board of Selectman's meeting on Wednesday but on Tuesday, he was interviewed by Polititic at Norwich City Hall and on Thursday he posted something that looked remarkably like a political campaign ad on his facebook page.
Rep. Joe Courtney spent Thursday with SrA Michael Malarsie, who was blinded by an IED in combat in Kandahar. He was with his guide dog Xxon, who was trained at Fidelco in Bloomfield.
Third District
Rosa DeLauro (D) joined fellow Democrats in a press conference to hit Republicans on their stances on women’s issues, reports The Huffington Post.
Wayne Winsley (R): The candidate has a newly-redesigned website.
Fourth District
Steve Obsitnik (R) issued a second round of grades for U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, giving him an F for student loan debt, college options for prospective students and job prospects for college graduates.
Himes’ campaign spokesperson graded Obsitnik as well.
"Obsitnik, whose actual report card details his failing to vote in six elections since registering to vote in Connecticut, is once again desperately misleading voters by fabricating report cards," Justin Myers said, according to the Connecticut Post.
Fifth District
Elizabeth Esty’s attempts to link Andrew Roraback to controversial remarks by GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is a strategy being used by Democratic candidates throughout the nation, reports Talking Points Memo.
“It’s going to help us in every swing district in America,” House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland, was quoted as saying.
According to the Register Citizen, Roraback’s campaign accused Esty of “hyper-partisanship.”
