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Today, during a 2:00PM press conference, Republican candidate for Connecticut Governor’s office Tom Foley, concedes to Democrat Dan Malloy. From the Courant website:”I am confident that a recount that included the photocopied ballots would not change the outcome of the governor’s race,” Foley told reporters in Hartford. “Once all of this information was available to me this morning, deciding what to do was easy. I have told my team that I am not going to pursue a legal challenge to exclude photocopied ballots.” Foley, a former U.S. ambassador to Ireland who was making his first race for elective office, described...

The title says it all and explains why I could never back Foley with any kind of passion. Foley announced today he would concede the election, even as the Republican Party told the state it would fight on for the integrity of the system. Foley wanted to be Governor and it doesn’t surprise me fighting for the people of Connecticut was nothing more than a campaign slogan. Foley’s concession essentially amounted to this. Yeah sure, there were voting “irregularities”, but what the heck. I lost”.

Just in.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley tells us he isn't planning to concede Tuesday's Connecticut election until he's "certain that the will of the voters was honored." Good for him. Mr. Foley and the rest of the state's voters have plenty of reasons to question a reported tally that now shows Democrat Dannel Malloy ahead by fewer than 6,000 votes out of more than 1.1 million cast. Specifically, Connecticut voters deserve a more thorough accounting of the votes in Bridgeport, and of the bizarre behavior of Susan Bysiewicz, the secretary of state. In Bridgeport, where the Hartford Courant has noted a...

GOP claims bag of uncounted ballots found in Conn.By Susan Haigh, Associated Press – 2 hrs 39 mins ago HARTFORD, Conn. – The Republican candidate for governor in Connecticut says a bag of uncounted photocopied ballots has been found, further throwing into question the outcome of the race. Tom Foley says the bag was found during the counting of ballots in Bridgeport, where a shortage Tuesday night forced officials to photocopy ballots. Foley says it's unclear where the ballots originated and whether they are valid. He wants them impounded. Foley and Democrat Dan Malloy have claimed victory in Tuesday's election....

Mark Boughton, Tom Foley's running mate in the disputed governor's contest, said that earlier today an error was found in the Torrington vote returns that resulted in a 2,000-vote swing.... Boughton, mayor of Danbury and Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, cited the Torrington error as evidence that discrepancies in the vote totals posted by Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz continued to come to light. A misclassification inflated Democrat Dannel Malloy's totals and undercounted those of the Foley-Boughton team, he said... MEANWHILE, Foley issued a release that said in Bridgeport "a bag of photocopied ballots was apparently discovered that had...

Thursday was the first full day of work for the transition team of Dannel P. Malloy, the Democratic who is certain he was the winner in the Connecticut governor’s race. It was also the first full day of work for the transition team of Thomas C. Foley, the Republican candidate, who claimed victory in the same race. Clearly, one of these men is going to be terribly disappointed. But when and how that will become clear is still, well, unclear.... Sometime on Thursday, the state’s top election official, Susan Bysiewicz, the Democratic secretary of state, is supposed to announce the...

[Main part of article about ongoing count delete] In another development, state Sen. Kevin Witkos - who works as a police supervisor in Canton - is calling for an investigation into the Election Day use of the Reverse 9-1-1 system in Bridgeport.The system was used to call voters in order to tell them that the voting hours had been extended by two hours to 10 p.m., based on an order by a Superior Court judge after some polling places ran out of ballots. ... "State law is very clear that reverse 9-1-1 is an emergency notification system only,'' Witkos said....

Former senator Norm Coleman — a man familiar with Democrats’ electoral machinations — has a piece of advice for Republican Tom Foley: Keep fighting. Foley is in an ongoing battle with Democrat Dan Malloy over the governorship of Connecticut. On Tuesday, polling stations in Bridgeport — a bastion of blue votes — ran out of ballots, leading to long lines and a flight of frustrated voters. Eventually, poll workers started photocopying ballots — which is legally suspect — and a judge ordered the polls to remain open two hours after those in the rest of the state closed — also...

Just announced on channel 3 (CBS affiliate)

In a surprise on-air encounter, Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley confronted Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewiciz Wednesday for declaring a winner without having official numbers. Both Bysiewicz and Foley were calling in to WNPR’s “Colin McEnroe Show” at the time, around 1:30 p.m. Byiewicz had in the previous hour declared Democrat Dan Malloy the “unofficial” winner of Tuesday’s gubernatorial election by a mere 3,000 votes, out of more than a million. She acknowledged she was basing her declaration in some cases on unofficial numbers from local registrars of voters. In New Haven, for instance, officials hadn’t even finished counting...

Governor - General Total 699/751 Malloy (D) 531,567 49% Foley (R) 533,197 49% Marsh (I) 16,686 2%

Election Day 2010 in Connecticut could very much be extended a few more extra days because of the Governor’s race, which is for now, is still too closed to be called. A number of voting districts, including that of the city of Bridgeport, which had to extend to 10PM last night voting in a few polling places. Bridgeport, IMHO, has ALWAYS being a troubling city, which has included issues of political corruption. This voting ballot issue of not having enough ballots is just the latest installment in the difficult political history of this CT city. ….And not just in Bridgeport,...

While the Governor's race is now looking pretty interesting, the Senate contest is not...

There's been a huge movement in the Connecticut Governor's race over the last month and the race is now a toss up, with Republican Tom Foley inching ahead of Democrat Dan Malloy by a 49-47 margin after trailing 50-40 in early October. A look inside the numbers makes it clear that attacks on Malloy, rather than an increase in voter affection toward Foley, are what has made this race so competitive in the final days. A month ago Foley's favorability rating was 41/40 and now it's almost identical at 41/38. Voters aren't really warming up to him. But Malloy's numbers...

Democrat Dannel Malloy has pulled ahead to a 7 point lead in the race for governor in the latest Quinnipiac University poll that was released this morning. Malloy, the former mayor of Stamford for 14 years, had 49 percent of those polled, while Foley, the former U.S. ambassador to Ireland, had 42 percent. The poll showed that 7 percent are undecided and 20 percent say they could change their mind before Election Day. In a bad sign for Foley, he has the same 42 percent that he had in the last Quinnipiac Poll that was released on September 29, said...

SNIPPET: "The oldest son of two Russian spies bagged in a summer sweep of undercover moles may have known his folks were working for the other side while they all lived the good life in Cambridge. “I’d say it’s logical to presume, and we suspect that he knew something, yes, toward the end,” FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard DesLauriers said yesterday. The feds believe the Cambridge couple - going by the names Donald Howard Heathfield and Tracey Foley - hid their secret life from their two boys, 16 and 20 years old. The oldest, however, may have caught on...

The similarities between the political condition of the Democratic Party in 2010 and the Republican Party's condition in 2006 are growing. One sign of the similarity is the tendency toward hopeful delusion on the part of many Democrats and liberals, which parallels the hopeful delusions of Republicans and conservatives in the run-up to November 2006. Two senior congressional Democrats, Reps. Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters, in hot water with the House Ethics Committee, just as Republicans had to suffer from the cascading effects of the bribery scandal involving San Diego Rep. Duke Cunningham and a sex scandal involving Sen. Larry...

<p>WASHINGTON — Ten Russian intelligence officers have been arrested for allegedly serving as illegal agents of the Russian government in the United States, the Justice Department announced Monday.</p>