Posted on 02/27/2019 12:46:59 AM PST by campaignPete R-CT
Republicans won two of the five state legislative seats at stake in special elections Tuesday, flipping House and Senate districts by carrying blue-collar communities that have grown difficult for Democrats. All five vacancies were the result of Gov. Lamont hiring Democratic legislators in January.
Even with the losses, Democrats retained solid majorities of 91-60 in the House and 22-14 in the Senate. But Republicans got a morale boost after losing ground in the General Assembly last fall for the first time in 10 years.
In the night’s biggest upset, Republican Gennaro Bizzarro of New Britain won the the 6th Senate District with 53 percent of the vote, defeating Rep. Rick Lopes, D-New Britain. The district includes the GOP-trending suburb of Berlin, where House Speaker Joseph Aresimowicz, a Democrat, barely won re-election last fall against a late entrant.
Lopes carried New Britain by about 500 votes, but lost Berlin by nearly 1,000 votes. The district also has a piece of Farmington that was carried by Bizzarro.
Two Democrats held onto Senate seats in solid Democratic districts: M. Saud Anwar of South Windsor, a physician who became the state’s first Muslim mayor in 2013, won the 3rd Senate District with 59 percent of the vote over Republican Sarah A. Muska; and Rep. Derek Slap of West Hartford won a four-way race in the 5th Senate District with 63 percent. Republican Bill Wadsworth finished second with 34%.
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Republican Joseph Zullo of East Haven won in the 99th House District, which was carried by Donald J.Trump in 2016, a harbinger of difficult times to come for the Democrats in a district they’ve dominated for three decades. With 54 percent of the vote in a two-way race, Zullo easily defeated Democrat Josh Balter, who was cross-endorsed by the union-backed Working Families Party.
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Yep. I lived in Ct then. Sat in endless lines and paid four tolls a day. Maddening.
Finally in the late 80s the tolls came down after a trailer truck killed seven people at a toll.
Ever since, liberals have been jonesing about reinstalling the tolls. Looks like they’re going to get their way only ten times worse.
One of the happiest days of my life was when I put Ct in my rear view.
Bizzarro. Has a chance. Needs help in redistricting to win in 2022 and forward.
Parents were Italian immigrants
Imgbb will work
A new candidate emerged today here in Liberal Haven.
2nd amendment activist
Dem seat that is often targetted. but Hasn’t gone GoP in 20 years.
We will win the special election 4/16
Cut up district.
5% of Farmington
25% of Avon
30% of West Hartford
Makes gotv difficult
5200 will be turnout
2700 to win.
From your fingers to God’s....eyes.
The 65-team Big Dance is near.
No teams from ILL that I see. Again.
Vermont could be only team from New England. Likely one and done.
NY has a bunch of teams alive. Buffalo is the only one that’s good.
When I lived there 30 years ago, we had a Republican Senator (Wackjob) who acted more like a Democrat, and a Democrat Senator (Liebermann) who acted more like a Republican.
And no state Income Tax on earned income until after I left, when Weicker became the Governor, IIRC.
The Land of Lincoln going to the Dance!
Bradley breaks the shutout !
When Democrats are in charge for a while, they start to believe they are bullet-proof. They start picking people’s pockets and people resent it.
CA Republicans should convince CA Democrats to pass outrageous car taxes. The Hispanics will vote them out.
Draw the usual triangle-circle from Mich to Tex to FlA.
15 of 16 sweet teams likely inside.
South to dominate.
A couple of my uncles went there.
We could root for Wofford and Buffalo.
Or all cinderellas.
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