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| Victory or Not, the Parties must go on |
| Ted Mann of the New London Day explains why we will be at Luce's in Middletown. |
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| Victory or Not, the Parties must go on |
| Ted Mann of the New London Day explains why we will be at Luce's in Middletown. |
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| As campaign ends, here's some awards |
Ken Dixon throws a little humor in his weekly capitol view column, 11/6/6.
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| As campaign ends, here's some awards |
Ken Dixon throws a little humor in his weekly capitol view column, 11/6/6.
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| Nader Teaches Kids "Civics" Lesson with Press Locked Out |
| Oops - we made a mistake at Amistad High School. We won't let it happen again. |
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| Dreaming Big |
| With
A Full Slate Of Candidates, Green Party Seeks To Raise Its Profile, By
Joel Lang, 11/2/6. FRONT PAGE OF THE HARTFORD COURANT! |
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| Nader asks voters to put deeds above words |
| CTNewsJunkie.com covered Ralph Nader's press conference at the state capital, 11/1/6. |
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| Nader backs Thornton |
| The Manchester Journal Inquirer, 11/2/6. |
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| CT Races Draw New Voters |
| Yale Daily News finds a new Thornton voter, 11/1/6. |
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| Third Party Candidates Debate At Storrs |
| Steven
Durel of the UConn Daily Campus covered the gubernatorial debate
between Cliff and Concerned Citizens candidate Joseph Zdonczyk Friday
night, 10/27/06 in Storrs. |
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| Voters Deserve to Hear from All Candidates |
| Susan
Campbell watched the Oct. 18 debate with Cliff at Central CT State U
and has written an elegant argument for inclusion, 10/29/06. |
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| Show the Green |
| A little piece about the TV ad in the Fairfield County Weekly from 10/19/06. |
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| "Highway Howie" Blasts Drug War |
| Melinda
Tuhus at the New Haven Independent caught up with Cliff and drug policy
reformer Howard Woolridge in the Elm City 10/26/06. |
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| Candidates Debate at Mishkan Israel |
| Reporter Joseph Cole weighs in the for the weekly North Haven Post about the 10/23/06 Bagel Breakfast. |
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| The War on Sprawl...and Drugs? |
| Melissa Bailey of the New Haven Independent captures the essence of a stop-the-sprawl "confab" in the Elm City, 10/26/06. |
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| Candidates speak at Bagel breakfast |
| CT Post covered this Sunday morning political feast in Hamden, 10/23/06. |
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| Interview with Cliff Thornton |
| Mark Rutkowski of CCSU's Recorder interviewed Cliff first, 10/4/6. This one slipped through without notice until now. |
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| Interview with Jodi Rell |
| Mark
Rutkowski of CCSU's Reporter gives Rell the business about Cliff not
being in the debates. And he forces her to discuss pulling the National
Guard out of Iraq. 10/23/06. Good work. |
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| Connecticut's Color Barrier: No Greens Allowed |
| The New London Day published Cliff's op-ed today, 10/22/06. Site may be RR, so story will be on the blog as well. |
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| Feature: Prominent Drug Reformers Run for Statewide Office in Connecticut, Maryland |
| From the Drug War Chronicle. |
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| Candidate: Students not being helped |
| Cliff rocked Bridgeport Central High School on 10/19. Ken Dixon said Cliff scored points. Hooray! |
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| DeStefano, Rell compare accomplishments, plans in second debate |
| Neither of them discussed real issues, but Mark Davis included us in this report of 10/18/06. |
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| DeStefano faces Rell in TV debate |
| Andrew Mangino gives Cliff's commercial props in the pages of the Yale Daily News. |
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| Commercial During Debate Exposes Left Out Candidates |
| UConn Daily Campus writer Steven Durel takes a look at the Thornton commercial on 10/19/06. |
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| DeStefano, Rell on the attack as they focus on executive policy |
| Greg Hladky's New Haven Register notes high up that we belonged in the debates. Link to the Bristol Press because no RR. |
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| Green Party to air debate protest ad |
| The Manchester Journal Inquirer sports us some ink for buying our TV commercial. |
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| DeStefano Ad Will Knock Rell's Past |
| And the bit about Thornton's ad included at the bottom of the story. |
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| Elementary School Forum Draws A Candidate Crowd |
| Griswold
schools' mock vote has accurately predicted outcomes of past elections
- RR on the New London Day site - cross posted on the T4G blog. |
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| State Green Party To Run It's First TV Ad |
| Gregory Hladky writes about Cliff's first TV ad. This site is RR. The text is on our blog if you don't want to register. |
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| Thornton to buy tv ad |
| From the AP, a report about our ad buy for the gubernatorial debate, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2006. |
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| Green Party Candidate's Exclusion Sparks Protest |
| NL Day story about protest (because this is a RR website, I will post it on the blog). |
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| Third-Party Candidates Protest; Labor Roars |
| Melissa Bailey covers the Green Party protest at the gubernatorial "debate." |
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| High Level Face Off |
| Ken Dixon of the CT Post gives Cliff the last word on the debates, 10/10/6. |
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| Clash of Opponents |
| Gregory Hladky covers our protests well. Same story as in New Haven Register, just no RR on this site in Middletown. |
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| Some questions we'd love to ask DeStefano, Rell |
CT Post capital reporter Ken Dixon inhis 10-8-6 column muses about Cliff's absence from tonite's debates and more.
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| Regulating Heroin Trade Suggested |
| Attorney Sylvester Salcedo wants a change in the drug laws, and the CT Post quotes Cliff on it, 10/9/6. |
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| Minor candidates can't find places on main stage |
| Ray Hackett describes how developing political parties get discriminated against in this repressive climate, 10/8/6. |
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| Rell Unveils Anti-Sprawl Proposal as Protestors Looked On |
Cliff was one of the protestors. Check out Sue Haigh's AP story, quoting the Green Party's candidate for Governor.
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| Take a Gamble on Free College |
| Rick
Green of the Hartford Courant agrees with Thornton for Governor's free
college tuition plan, 10/6/6. We couldn't have said it better. |
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| Major-Party Candidates Dismiss Third Parties |
| Editor Michael Marciano gives a weekly recap on the gubernatorial race for the Winsted Journal, 10/3/6. |
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| It's not easy being green |
| Cliff wrote an op-ed for the Hartford Courant, and it ran, 10/3/6. |
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| Parents Hear Concerns Debated |
| Expecting
good journalism from the Middletown Press is like expecting fair play
from the two party system. The Press couldn't even get it right that
Jean deSmet is our Lt. Gov. candidate. But it's ink on 10/1. |
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| Candidate Thrown Off Debate Seesaw |
| "Green Party's Thornton Won't Appear With Rell, DeStefano," says the sub-head for the Keating story, Hartford Courant, 10/1/6. |
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| Promises, Promises |
| In
what has to be a highlight for Thornton for Governor, the Republican
editorial board in Waterbury, the same people who endorsed pedophile
Phil Giordano for Mayor and Senate, criticized our free college tuition
plan Saturday, Sept. 30. We're feeling pretty good about that. |
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| Debate sponsors disagree on including Green Party in debate |
| Susan Haigh of the AP shows how power suppresses speech. |
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| Candidates: Deal out insurance companies? Legalize Drugs? |
| Alan
Brison fills in heroically at a candidates forum in New Haven while
Cliff Thornton taped a tv segment about being shut out of the debates. |
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| Green Candidates speaks at Watertown High School |
| The Town Times, a local weekly, covered Cliff's conversation with teacher Al Marko's high school civics class, 9/28/06. |
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| Cliff's Notes |
| In
The World This Week, Sept. 27, Hartford Advocate columnist Alan Bisbort
congratulates Cliff Thornton for having the courage to tell the truth. |
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| Minor Parties Need a Voice in Debates |
| The
Connecticut Post editorial board on 9/24/06 opines that the Dems and
Repubs have overstepped their bounds and that the minor parties belong
in televised debates. |
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| Rell and DeStefano Differ over Debate |
| So
the New York Times (reg. req'd) is a day late on this news clip, as
they must print Saturday's Connecticut Section on Friday morning. But
shoot, the Cliff Thornton's campaign made the Old Gray Lady, 9/23/06. |
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| Thornton Campaign on Debates: "The Green Party will not take this sitting down." |
| Genghis Conn over at CTLocalPolitics shows the Greens some love and puts Cliff on the front page of his popular blog, 9/22/06. |
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| Rell, DeStefano Agree to Debates |
| Keith Phaneuf at the Manchester Journal Inquirer quotes Cliff on the debate debacle, 9/23/06. |
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| Governor Agrees to 2 Debates with DeStefano |
| Registration
Required here. on 9/23/06, Hladky of the Register put the Green Party
on the front page for the second time this week. |
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| Minor Parties Left Out of Debates |
| CTnewsjunkies' take on the debate agreements between DeStefano and Rell. |
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| Rell, DeStefano Agree to 2 Debates without minor party candidates |
| Sue Haigh of the AP has the best story of the day - 9/23/06 - about the treachery of the two major parties. |
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| Rell: Debates On |
| The
two major parties deliver another nail to the coffin of free speech.
And for the first time, the Thornton for Governor campaign is above the
fold in the Hartford Courant. |
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| Debating the Debates, Part 2 |
| Christine
Stuart at CTNewsjunkie.com with more great debate coverage, from
9/20/06. Make sure you read Joe Barber's comment at the end, too. |
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| Rell Backs Off Debate Stance |
| Cliff quoted by Christopher Keating in the Hartford Courant, 9/21/06. |
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| DeStefano, Rell Spar Over Debate Format |
| The
Associated Press quotes the Thornton for Governor campaign on
exclusionary politics and the state of the American dream, Sept. 21. |
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| Gubernatorial debate controversy brewing |
| Channel
8's Mark Davis reports that Rell wants two debates with all four
candidates and DeStefano wants 6 debates with just two candidates. In
2002, Rowland and Curry debated at least three times. |
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| DeStefano claims Rell is ducking 1-on-1 debate |
| The
NHR's Gregory Hladky describes our situation as being "whipsawed."
Pretty accurate. If Rell was really trying to put us on equal ground,
she would insist that a third moderating entity handle all
negotiations, and include all candidates. |
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| Green Candidate Chooses Activist as Running Mate |
| Gregory Hladky of the New Haven Register runs a quote from Cliff about Jean M. de Smet. |
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| Green Party Announces LT Gov |
| CTNewsJunkie gives us a way better fix than the AP on Sept. 18. |
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| News and Notes from the Campaign Trail |
| AP stories about the debates and Jean M. de Smet as the Green Party candidate for Lt. Governor from Sept. 18. |
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| Rell wants third-parrty candidates in debates |
| Fred Lucas of the News Times in Danbury goes deeper into the debate story on Sept. 18. |
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| Political Candidates Speak to Seniors |
| The New Britain Senior Center hosted a candidate forum which Cliff spoke at. |
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| Rell, DeStefano Debate over Debate |
| Fred
Lucas of the Danbury News-Times contributes this story from Sept. 11
about DeStefano's anti-democratic stance on the debates. |
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| Green Party making points on issues |
| Ken Dixon's Capitol View column on Sept. 10 said that the CT Greens merit attention. |
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| Rell, DeStefano Sparring Over Debates |
| The
Manchester Journal-Inquirer went to press on Sept. 8 before we could
comment, but the major news here is that John DeStefano's campaign
changed its tune from no third party participation to maybe some. |
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| Gubernatorial Candidate Calls Out Top Cop |
| The Hartford Advocate published Cliff's letter in response to Adam Bulger's story about Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. |
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| A Greener Side of Politics |
| Out at UConn's Daily Campus in Storrs, columnist Steven Durel quizzed Cliff this past spring semester. |
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| Thornton Runs to be Heard |
| Christine Stuart of CTNewsJunkie.com first interviewed Cliff in the middle of June. |
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| Who Uses vs. Who Pays |
| Melinda Tuhus records the earliest story about our gubernatorial campaign bac in January for the New Haven Independent. |
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| DeStefano doesn't want other parties to be in the debates |
| The
New Haven Register's Gregory Hladky documents the exchanges between
three camps about the gubernatorial debates. Published Sept. 6, 2006. |
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| Third-Party Candidate's First-Class Issue |
| Paul
Bass wrote one of the first stories about Cliff's run for the Courant's
Northeast Magazine back in February. It's worth reposting now just to
see how far we have come. |
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| Guess Who's Coming to the Debates |
| The
New Haven Independent explores the debate raging over the debates.
Should Cliff be included? We think so. From Sept. 5, 2006. |
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| Thornton on Homeless Radio |
| A Hartford Courant story discussing the WESU-Middletown radio show of a homeless man. |
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| Rasmussen Poll Report |
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| Interview with Cliff Thornton |
| A
thorough four-part interview with Richard Rhodes of WatchBlog. This is
the third part, the links to the first two sessions are at the bottom
of the page. |
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| Green Party Candidates Face Hurdles |
| On
the front page of the Sunday, August 27, Connecticut Post, Ken Dixon
delves into the challenges the Green Party faces in its quest to shape
in-state political debate. |
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| War On Crack Cocaine Is An Absolute Crock |
| Attorney Norm Pattis kicks out the jams with this August 28, 2006 column referncing Cliff's campaign. Registration required. |
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| Job Growth Predicted To Be Slow |
| Thornton comments in the Connecticut Post on August 27, 2006 on new ways to generate jobs in Connecticut. |
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| Green Thumbs Up |
| Google Cache version of Adam Bulger's story for the Hartford Advocate because the Advocate archives are kaput. |
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| It's Not Always Easy Being Green Party Candidate |
Susan Campbell interviews Cliff's wife Margaret Thornton for her column in the Hartford Courant on Aug. 27, 2006.
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| Green Party fields state candidates |
| New Haven Register covers the Green Party convention in April. |
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| Green Party Has A Slate: Ticket Leaders Say Drug War Wrong |
| Frances Grandy Taylor of the Hartford Courant covered the Green Party's nominating convention in April. |
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| Green Party prepares for races |
| Ray Hackett of the Norwich Bulletin writing about Cliff's campaign for a May 21, 2006 story. |
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| Green Party Candidate Stares Down the Odds |
| Writer Tobin Coleman of the Stamford Advocate interviews Cliff for a May 23, 2006 story. |
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| Thornton's Focused On Failed Drug War In His Run For Governor |
| This story by Ted Mann appeared in the New London Day on June 21, 2006. |
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| Lieberman Gets Ballot Bottom, Green Party Wants To Be in Poll |
| Christine Stuart at CTNewsjunkie.com talks about Lieberman and Green Party access to the polls. |
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| Lieberman on Ballot Under New Party |
| Susan Haigh's AP dispatch about the press conference at the Secretary of the State's office on August, 23, 2006. |
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| Lieberman Lands Spot on Ballot |
| Gregory Hladky Discusses Green Party placement on the ballot. |
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| Paying for College With Lottery Proposed |
New Haven Register writer Maria Garriga explores Cliff's education policy proposal on July 3, 2006.
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| Gubernatorial hopeful says Bridgeport mayor should go to jail |
| New
Haven Register staff writers Angela Carter and Andy Bromage talk with
Cliff on June 23, 2006 about Bridgeport Mayor John Fabrizi's drug use
in office. |
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| Green Party Connecticut governor hopeful: Let's end drug war |
Norwich Bulletin article from June 26, 2006 by Ray Hackett with a great picture of Cliff.
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| Thornton Leads Forum at CCSU |
| From
the August 1, 2006 New Britain Herald, writer Scott Whipple starts his
story with Cliff's speech to a group of college students. |
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| 'Green' option to be offered to voters |
| Putnam
Villager writers Chuck Edenburn, Antoine Craigwell, and Shaun Moriarty
describe how our "Third-party hopeful for gov. weighs in on issues" in
the Friday August 11, 2006 Putnam Villager. |
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| Green Candidate for Governor Calling for Drug-Policy Reform |
| Michael Marciano, editor of the weekly paper The Winsted Journal, interviewed Cliff for this story on June 16, 2006. |
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| Greens claim to have enough names for ballot |
Angela Carter, New Haven Register Staff
08/22/2006
HARTFORD — The Connecticut Green Party Monday announced it had reached
the required number of 7,500 signatures to qualify its slate of
candidates for the November ballot... |
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| Should He Stay or Should He Go? |
Manchester
Journal-Inquirer from June 23, 2006 story by Tom Breen about whether or
not coke-snorting Bridgeport Mayor John Fabrizi should resign.
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