HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell has asked the state attorney general to sue the federal government if Nebraska receives extra Medicaid money in the final version of federal health care reform legislation.
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HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says he will seek to succeed fellow Democrat Christopher Dodd in the U.S. Senate.
Blumenthal tells The Associated Press that he will announce his candidacy at noon Wednesday at Democratic headquarters in Hartford.
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Blumenthal requires some vetting.
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THE CROWN PRINCE - THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIFE OF DICK BLUMENTHAL
Hartford Courant, The (CT) - Sunday, October 3, 2004
Author: Elizabeth Hamilton, Elizabeth Hamilton has been a reporter in Connecticut for 15 years and is now assigned to The Courant’s investigations team.
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Take their home, for example.
It requires a good bit of effort to find out how much they paid for it or, for that matter, what it even looks like. Search the land records in Greenwich Town Hall and you won’t find the Blumenthal name anywhere.
The 5,608-square-foot house, with a market value of $2.5 million in 2001, was transferred for $1 and ``other considerations’’ to the ``John and Abigail Trust,’’ named by his wife, Blumenthal said, after the second president and his wife.
``[Cynthia] didn’t want it to be reported that the attorney general bought a house on such and such a street,’’ Blumenthal said, adding that they own their home.
Given Blumenthal’s financial disclosure statement, it would be implausible that they wouldn’t. The statement lists 13 trust funds held in either his wife’s or children’s names, and one blind trust held jointly by him and his wife.
Cynthia Blumenthal is the daughter of Peter Malkin, a Greenwich real estate mogul who heads the investor group that owns the Empire State Building and other Manhattan properties. She and her children owned partnership interests in 30 real estate ventures, including the Empire State Building, according to the 2002 disclosure.
Rahm’s choice.
Just a snake shedding its skin.
Unfortunately Dodd’s departure increases the challenge, so I’m afraid it may have the opposite effect.
I’m not sure that Schiff is cut out for politics anyway. He’s got almost a perpetual sneer in going after the economic stupidity of his foils, not sure he’s used to pulling out the charm.
Former Congressman Rob Simmons, WWE Founder Linda McMahon, and President of Euro Pacific Capital Peter Schiff.
With Hoven running for Dorgan’s seat-Hoven wins with at least 65% of the vote.
GREAT information!!!!!! Opposition research.
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RICHARD BLUMENTHAL GOES TOO FAR
Hartford Courant, The (CT) - Tuesday, August 20, 2002
Author: John Lott John Lott is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, and an unofficial adviser to Martha Dean, a Republican running for state attorney general.
In just 12 years, under state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal ‘s desire to increase his authority, his office has ballooned in size, more than doubling its budget from $13 million to almost $27 million and increasing the number of cases completed by 65 percent.
Yet despite this growth, Blumenthal has gone so far into actions previously reserved for other parts of the government that he often neglects the real duties of his job.
On Aug. 9, the Connecticut Supreme Court checked Blumenthal for overstepping his authority. The court unanimously ruled that Blumenthal’s jurisdiction is largely limited by state statute to representing state agencies and officials in lawsuits brought by or against them, although the attorney general had claimed broader powers.
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The grab for power sometimes crosses ethical lines. Two of the law firms that Blumenthal contracted with to sue the tobacco companies were run separately by his former law partner and his partner’s wife. Blumenthal’s defenders claim that other law firms simply didn’t want the job. In a Connecticut Law Tribune article, however, a few lawyers disagreed, one complaining that ``we didn’t ever get a meeting’’ with the attorney general’s office and another sayin that his firm wasn’t included despite agreeing to the state’s contractual terms. Blumenthal’s former partner, David Golub, acknowledged, ``I know how it `looks’ — he’s my former partner ...’’
Yet, whatever the concerns about Blumenthal giving a contract to a former partner, where did he get the authority at the time the contracts were negotiated to commit the state to pay private attorneys a sum then estimated to be more than $250 million?
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Well, we have to wait and see if he actually joins the lawsuits against the bill. If he does he has a pretty good chance. If he doesn't that could be used against him.
Conn. considering lawsuit if Nebraska gets money
Between your #41 and this #48 of your, maggief, Blumental already looks slimely.
He couldn’t even wait for Dodd to formally announce his retirement!!
Please see maggief’s #41 also.
Blumental couldn’t even wait for Dodd’s formal retirement announcement!
How many Stalinists do we need in the Senate, anyway?
They already have gone to Hades! LOL
With all the insurance companies in CT, you'd think they'd be fighting ObamaCare tooth and nail.
Hmmm........
We need to look at the law firms that got the money from the tobacco settlement. If I remember correctly, Blumenthal’s ex-partners received the lion’s share and he appointed them.
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NO NEED TO WASH DISHES AFTER THIS SLEEP OVER
The Hartford Courant - Thursday, March 24, 1994
Author: David Lightman; Washington Bureau Chief
Just like good kids sleeping at a friend’s house, Dick and Cynthia Blumenthal made sure they called home before they went to bed.
Except this time they could say, as the Connecticut attorney general did, ``I’m calling from the Lincoln Bedroom,’’ where the ghost of the 16th president supposedly hovers over everything.
You can make calls like that when your friends are Bill and Hillary Clinton and they live in the White House.
No one was bragging about the decor 20 - odd years ago when Yale Law School classmates Richard Blumenthal and Bill Clinton crammed for exams in Blumenthal’s Olive Street apartment in New Haven.
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UGH. Clinton pal. American politics is too damn incestuous and cozy. This one’s a slimeball and very arrogant.
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Amid pro-life protest outside: - Democrats host Blumenthal
Wilton Bulletin, The (CT) - Thursday, March 11, 2004
Author: JEFF YATES
State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal received two very different receptions when he arrived at the Democratic Town Committee’s breakfast meeting on Saturday. While a group of 20 pro-life protesters stood on New Canaan Road denouncing Mr. Blumenthal ‘s role in the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973, approximately 95 Democrats from Wilton applauded him for the very same reason.
“He was the law clerk for Justice Blackmun, who penned Roe v. Wade,” said Annie Banno, leader of Operation Outcry, a post-abortive women’s support group.
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Blumenthal testifies in D.C. for national abortion-rights standard
New Haven Register (CT) - Thursday, March 5, 1992
Author: Tamara Lytle - Register Washingtn Bureau
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal Wednesday called for a national standard protecting the basic right to have an abortion.
“The ability of a woman to control her procreative capacity is fundamental to her rights to privacy and equality,” Blumenthal said. “A federal role is appropriate when such an important right is involved.”
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But state laws would not necessarily be pre-empted, said Blumenthal , who as a state senator in 1989 helped write Connecticut’s law ensuring abortion rights even if the Supreme Court overturns the constitutional protections they now have. Connecticut’s law requires that minors receive counseling.
Blumenthal started his legal career as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, who wrote the Roe v. Wade decision.
Excellent posts maggief!!!
Thanks. I will research more later.
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http://www.lifenews.com/state1679.html
Connecticut Pulls Choose Life Plate, Atty General Targets Pro-Life Group
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
May 26, 2006
Hartford, CT (LifeNews.com) — The state of Connecticut has stopped sales of the Choose Life license plate there after Attorney General Richard Blumenthal wrote the state department of motor vehicles and claimed the pro-life group that sponsored the plates was not eligible to promote them there.
The Connecticut motor vehicle department said it would stop issuing the plates on Bluemnthal’s recommendation while it investigates whether the Children First Foundation qualifies to have the specialty plate.
The group qualified for the plates in 2003 but Blumenthal and a Democratic state legislator say the New York-based organization doesn’t do enough in Connecticut to warrant giving them the opportunity to sponsor the Choose Life plates.
Blumenthal, in a letter to DMV Commissioner Ralph Carpenter, said the Children First Foundation has “negligible, if any, `operations’ in Connecticut, much less a base of operations in this state.”
Elizabeth Rex, the president of the Children First Foundation, who lives in New York, told the Hartford Courant newspaper she was surprised by the news and said Blumenthal never notified her that there were any problems.
She pointed to several letters from Connecticut lawmakers who said her group had done good work in the state promoting adoption over the years. The Courant said the letters came from pro-abortion Sen. Joe Lieberman, Govs. John Rowland and Jodi Rell, and even Blumenthal himself.
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Connecticut Reinstates Choose Life License Plate After Pro-Abortion Gripes
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
July 10, 2006
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