Search query: connecticut

Connecticut Gov. Primary: Major Party Candidate Advances with 2% Voter Support
Connecticut Gov. Primary: Major Party Candidate Advances with 2% Voter Support
Connecticut was one of four states that had its 2018 primary elections Tuesday. Republicans and Democrats went to the polls to decide their party's respective nominees -- though not in high numbers.Ac ...
16 Aug, 2018
-
2 min read
Media Stays Silent as U.S. Backs Saudi War Crimes in Yemen
Media Stays Silent as U.S. Backs Saudi War Crimes in Yemen
Not only is the United States backing the Saudi monarchy with intelligence and logistical support as it prosecutes a violent proxy war via relentless airstrikes in one of the world's most destitute an ...
16 Aug, 2018
-
14 min read
9 States Where Registered Independents Outnumber Both Major Political Parties
9 States Where Registered Independents Outnumber Both Major Political Parties
Millions of voters are not just choosing to self-identify as independent of the two major parties, they are dumping their party registrations in droves.In about half the states that register voters by ...
08 Aug, 2018
-
5 min read
The Myths, The Facts, The Future: Everything You Need to Know About Ranked Choice Voting
The Myths, The Facts, The Future: Everything You Need to Know About Ranked Choice Voting
Partisan gerrymandering. Money in politics. The Electoral College. Undue restrictions on who votes and how we vote. Every contentious election issue discussed today was either inherited from 18th-century England or came out of a compromise in our democracy’s incubation when there were few voters and fewer voting models.
11 Jun, 2018
-
17 min read
The $1.3 Trillion Mistake: How Our Two Political Parties Have Mortgaged Our Children's Future [Podcast]
The $1.3 Trillion Mistake: How Our Two Political Parties Have Mortgaged Our Children's Future [Podcast]
T.J. O’Hara, the host of Deconstructed, is joined by David Walker again.The two breakdown the omnibus spending bill versus restoring and improving the traditional appropriations process, the continuin ...
10 Apr, 2018
-
1 min read
Maine SOS Office Rips GOP for False Ranked Choice Voting Claim
Maine SOS Office Rips GOP for False Ranked Choice Voting Claim
The Maine Republican Party sent out an email Friday to its supporters with the subject line, "Ranked-Choice Voting risks the security of YOUR vote." Words emboldened in the email include "Department o ...
09 Mar, 2018
-
3 min read
Vermont Governor Signs Historic Marijuana Legalization Bill
Vermont Governor Signs Historic Marijuana Legalization Bill
Vermont is the first state to legalize adults’ possession and limited cultivation of marijuana legislativelyMarijuana will be legal in nine states and the nation’s capital when Vermont law takes effec ...
22 Jan, 2018
-
3 min read
IVN Monthly Update: Record Number of Independents Give Voters Hope
IVN Monthly Update: Record Number of Independents Give Voters Hope
Happy New Year! And what an exciting year 2018 will be for independent candidates and the reform movement!In an election year that is supposed to be highly dramatic and very expensive, voters wil ...
12 Jan, 2018
-
4 min read
Vermont Makes History with Marijuana Legalization Bill
Vermont Makes History with Marijuana Legalization Bill
Vermont is poised to become the 30th U.S. state to legalize marijuana for medical or recreational consumption, and the first state to legalize adults’ possession and limited cultivation of marijuana t ...
11 Jan, 2018
-
2 min read
Time Is Right to Elect An Independent Governor in Connecticut
Time Is Right to Elect An Independent Governor in Connecticut
Just before Thanksgiving, I received a call out of the blue from a friend of Oz Griebel, a well-known and very respected business leader in Connecticut, and a Republican. He began by telling me that M ...
03 Jan, 2018
-
4 min read