Joseph Maturo

Let Them Eat Tacos: Mayor's Regrettable Response To Alleged Police Abuse Of Latinos

Ryan J. Reilly | January 25, 2012, 12:30PM

Here's a way not to respond to charges that police officers in your town harassed, abused and brought false charges against Latino residents: by telling a reporter that you might eat tacos to help Latinos out.

Asked this week by WPIX reporter Mario Diaz what he would do for the Latino community, East Haven, Connecticut Mayor Joseph Maturo said he "might have tacos when I go home."

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Topics: Connecticut, Joseph Maturo

Islamophobia

Muslim Woman: School Said I Was A Terrorist In Retaliation For Sexual Harassment Complaint

Jillian Rayfield | January 19, 2012, 4:51PM

A Muslim woman is suing the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut for allegedly expelling her and telling the FBI that she was a terrorist, she says in retaliation for a sexual harassment complaint she made against a fellow student.

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Topics: Connecticut, FBI, Islamophobia, Sexual harassment, University of Bridgeport

Barack Obama

Birther Bills Pop Up In Connecticut And Arizona

Eric Lach | February 2, 2011, 11:17AM

And the birther tune plays on. Lawmakers in two states are pushing bills that would make presidential candidates "prove" that they are natural-born American citizens.

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Topics: Arizona, Barack Obama, Birthers, Connecticut

Ann Coulter

CT Board Throws Out Voter Fraud Complaint Against Ann Coulter

Rachel Slajda | October 15, 2010, 8:28AM

Earlier this week, we told you that a voter fraud complaint against Ann Coulter, filed in early 2009, was finally being heard today by the Connecticut Elections Enforcement Commission.

The board dismissed the complaint, which had been filed by anti-Coulter blogger Daniel Borchers. Borchers charged that Coulter illegally voted absentee from her parents' New Canaan, Conn., address while she lived in New York City in 2002 and 2004.

But the elections commission ruled that Connecticut was just as much Coulter's home as anywhere else in the world.

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Topics: Ann Coulter, Connecticut, voter fraud

Iraq War

Is Another CT Candidate Stretching Truth About His Time In War Zone?

Rachel Slajda | July 12, 2010, 5:08PM

The Connecticut Post reports that another Connecticut political candidate -- this time Tom Foley, a Republican candidate for governor -- may be stretching the truth about his time in a war zone.

Foley lived in Baghdad's Green Zone in 2003 while working for the Coalition Provisional Authority. On his campaign web site, he describes his time there as pretty hairy.

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Topics: Connecticut, Iraq War, Republicans, Richard Blumenthal, Tom Foley