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Sunday, Feb 7, 2016 08:01 PM +0900 It’s almost over for Hillary: This election is a mass insurrection against a rigged system Sanders has ended the coronation and fired up the grass roots. Now Clinton's electability argument is crumbling too Bill Curry It would be hard to overstate what Bernie Sanders has already achieved in his campaign for president, or the obstacles he’s had to surmount in order to achieve it. Not only has he turned a planned Hillary Clinton coronation into an exercise in grass-roots democracy, he’s reset the terms of the debate. We are edging closer to the...

Progressives have no power in a corporate, focus-grouped, Wall Street-leaning party. But we are the change we need The Democrats’ conduct since the midterm debacle is as sad and sorry as the campaign that caused it. The party’s leaders are a big problem. A bigger one is the closed system of high-dollar fundraising, reductionist polling and vapid messaging in which it is seemingly trapped. Some say a more populist Democratic Party will soon emerge. It won’t happen as long as these leaders and this system are in place. Nancy Pelosi says it wasn’t a wave election. She’s right. It was...

(Hartford-AP, Nov. 3, 2002 5:45 PM) _Former President Bill Clinton will be a door prize tomorrow. Everyone who walks through the door at Monday's rally for Democrat Bill Curry will put their name in a hat. The winner gets their picture taken with the former president. Roy Occhiogrosso, Curry's campaign manager, said there was discussion of raffling off a chance to get a picture taken with Clinton as part of a fund-raiser. However, the campaign would have needed a special state permit. Curry, who is trailing Republican Governor John Rowland in public opinion polls, hopes Clinton's visit will energize voters...

Filed at 2:54 p.m. ET HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- The campaign manager for Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Bill Curry acknowledged that a staff member helped set up a noisy protest that disrupted a tour by the Republican incumbent. Campaign manager Roy Occhiogrosso said he planned to take action against the worker, but would not say whether the person would be fired. ``It shouldn't have happened and it won't happen again. I'm taking care of it internally,'' he said Tuesday. ``It is not the job of any member of this campaign to disrupt any public function.'' Gov. John G. Rowland and the...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) _ Consumer advocate and political activist Ralph Nader is scheduled to appear at the Coliseum in New Haven next week. ``The purpose of these events this year is to bring people together in cities across America, which is especially critical now,'' said Nader, the 2000 Green Party presidential candidate. New Haven is the 11th stop in Nader's ``People Have the Power Tour,'' sponsored by the nonprofit grass roots group, Democracy Rising, Nader's newest political organization. The group focuses on issues such as living wage legislation and ending corporate welfare. The New Haven event, set for 5...