CAMPAIGN 2024: Who is Michelle Coelho, and what has she learned from her 2022 campaign?
Tuesday, October 08, 2024 Time: 10:54 AM
CAMPAIGN 2024: One-on-one with State Senate candidate Michelle Coelho:
PART ONE: Who is Michelle Coelho, and what has she learned from her 2022 campaign?
Last week, I had the chance to sit down with Republican State Senate candidate Michelle Coelho for CT Senate District 24 to discuss the state of her campaign against Julie Kushner and her perspective on what she feels are the top concerns in the district.
The upcoming State Senate contest is a rematch of the highly competitive 2022 race that received significant attention in the area. In the first part, I asked Coelho how her experience from the defeat two years ago prepared her for the second attempt at state office.
Area Republicans nominate Michelle Coelho in State Senate campaign match-up
Wednesday, May 22, 2024 Time: 7:32 AM
Last week, Republicans from the 24th State Senate district endorsed Michelle Coelho as their choice to defeat State Senator Julie Kushner and flip the historically center-right district back to the red.
The race will be a rematch of the 2022 competitive race, in which Coelho lost by the smallest margin among all Republican State Senate challengers.
Coelho's candidacy has attracted the attention of GOP State Senate leadership and the State GOP, with both groups declaring that defeating Kushner, whom they describe as someone who prioritizes issues of labor over district concerns, is their top objective.
Here are the highlights from the nomination ceremony...
Public backlash to Gaza op-ed results in calls for Majority Legislative Leader Andrea Gartner's resignation
Time: 11:05 AM
Public backlash to Majority Legislative Leader Andrea Gartner's recent OP-ED was on display at last night's meeting of the City Council chambers as residents now call for the Majority Leader's resignation and the censure of the other eight Democrats who signed the letter that has been characterized as being insensitive, anti-Israeli, and inappropriate in using her capacity of an elected official in authoring the writing.
Here's video footage of the most damming public commentary against Gartner's piece from resident Jeffrey Berlant.
"From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!"
Time: 11:00 AM
Outraged residents have reached out to me, provided timestamps of footage of the March 16th "Danbury Stands with Palestine" rally, and requested that I make a video highlight of the clip of the controversial commentary at the event.
Upon request, here’s a copy of the printed version of Andrea Gartner’s letter, which is being loudly denounced as being anti-Israeli, along with the names of the members of the council who signed the letter in agreement.
04.25.22 (RADIO): WSHU Latino group call on Connecticut lawmakers to open a Danbury charter school
06.03.22 (OP-ED): KUSHNER: "Career Academy ‘a great deal for Danbury"
On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
The amended complaint states that plaintiffs sought to remedy the continued discriminatory and unauthorized enforcement of federal immigration laws against the Latino residents of the City of Danbury by Danbury's mayor and its police department.
Plaintiffs allege that the arrests violated their Fourth Amendment rights and the Connecticut Constitution because defendants conducted the arrests without valid warrants, in the absence of exigent circumstances, and without probable cause to believe that plaintiffs were engaged in unlawful activity. In addition, plaintiffs allege that defendants improperly stopped, detained, investigated, searched and arrested plaintiffs. Plaintiffs also allege that defendants violated their Fourteenth Amendment rights when they intentionally targeted plaintiffs, and arrested and detained them on the basis of their race, ethnicity and perceived national origin. Plaintiffs raise First Amendment, Due Process and tort claims.
Plaintiffs request declaratory relief, damages and attorneys fees.
On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
