Bridgeport Republican mayoral nominee Rick Torres has given his answer to odious incumbent Bill Finch’s attempt to worm his way onto the GOP ticket.

Guess who’s not getting the nomination.

Finch has been calling Republicans in and outside Bridgeport to try to get them to squeeze Torres. He shall not be moved.

Mayor Bill Finch will not concede what appears to be a humiliating defeat at the hands of Joe Ganim, the former Bridgeport mayor convicted of corruption and driven from the office he moved closer to seizing tonight. Democrats who went to the polls today gave Ganim more than a 600 vote margin.

Absentee ballots have become the focus of both camps. There are about 1,400 of them. Finch would have to win those absentee ballots by a margin far exceeding what he’s achieved in any other aspect of the contest with a resurgent Ganim.

Finch and Ganim will both be on the ballot in November, though the Democratic nomination is the great prize in the long race.

Not even close. Passero won every district, most by significant margins over first termer Finizio.

You read that right. U.S. Representative and retired state employee John B. Larson (D-East Hartford) will join one-time ally House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi for an October 2nd fundraiser in beleaguered Hartford. The top ticket price is $33,400 per couple–that gets the donor a VIP reception with Pelosi–and lunch too.

Pelosi has presided over a historic loss of Democratic seats in the House of Representatives. Larson served as a chairman of the House Democratic caucus until the party lost its majority in the 2010 midterm elections. The nine-term congressman has often turned to Connecticut’s insurance industry to make his Hartford fundraisers with Pelosi a financial success.

Britons and freedom’s friends around the world today mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. This was the critical month of combat with the Nazis in the skies over Great Britain. It included the storied day when Winston Churchill was told there were no Royal Air Force planes in reserve. Everything was in the air.

Your life is better than it would have been if the British had not stood alone that year against the Nazi hordes.

The Telegraph reenacted this day on its site. Read it Battle of Britain.

They are throwing everything they have at befuddled incumbent Pedro Segarra in his Hartford Democratic mayoral primary with Greenwich Brahmin Luke Bronin and Company. Below is an email Sara Bronin, the candidate’s abrasive spouse, sent today to University of Connecticut School of Law community from her UConn email account.

From: Bronin, Sara <sara.bronin@uconn.edu>
Date: Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 8:18 AM
Subject: Election Law Monitoring 9/16
To: LAW_SCHOOL_COMMUNITY-L@listserv.uconn.edu

Listen for a sigh of relief from Waterbury this week. Detroit-based Trinity Health and Waterbury’s St. Mary’s will soon announce they have reached an agreement to merge. St. Mary’s was one of five Connecticut hospitals in an unsuccessful takeover bid by for-profit health care giant Tenet. That proposal, which would have included a new hospital for Waterbury, fell afoul of the state’s complex regulatory and political web.

Trinity Health and St. Francis Hospital won regulatory and Vatican approval of their merger. St. Francis will be the dominant hospital in the New England healthcare network of Roman Catholic hospitals Trinity is creating.

Hartford Democratic mayoral hopeful Luke Bronin’s campaign fundraising practices may have gone several steps too far in his avaricious hunt for contributions, Daily Ructions has learned. People with business before the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission have been startled to receive solicitations from Bronin’s campaign around the time they appear before before the PZC, which is headed by Sara Bronin, the candidate’s spotlight-loving spouse.

The grumbling about the Bronin tactics has grown louder as Sara Bronin’s public role grew in her husband’s Democratic primary campaign contest against incumbent Pedro Segarra.

Some land use professionals and others who appear before the city’s PZC worry that the Greenwich plutocrat’s aggressive fundraising will grow worse should Bronin, as expected, win Wednesday’s showdown. Bronin, after all, holds a degree from the Dannel P. Malloy School of Relentless Fundraising. The use of grudges and vendettas are notorious features of that curriculum.

The Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan Indian tribes will hold a public ceremony Thursday in Hartford to ink a joint venture deal to build a casino in northern Connecticut, far from tribal lands. The tribes are acting under legislation passed earlier this year that gives them the exclusive right to build the slot barn intended to compete with a new MGM casino and resort in nearby Springfield, Massachusetts.

The Mohegans cared little about Connecticut casino revenues when they made a failed bid for a Boston area casino. The Pequots are deeply involved in a proposal to build a $650 million casino in New Bedford, Massachusetts. According to research by bitcoin gambling sites for 2022, that casino would also threaten gambling revenues in Connecticut.

The slot barn–and the fierce opposition to it from MGM–could cause the Bureau of Indian Affairs to take a close look at Connecticut’s lucrative and unprecedented compact with both tribes. That review holds the potential of some serious reversals in fortune for the flow of money from the tribes to the state’s general fund. Thursday’s ceremony is one more reckless roll of some gold-plated dice.

Underdogs unite. Popular Connecticut Republican Heather Bond Somers has endorsed Republican presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett Packard chief.

Somers won a surprise victory in the 2014  Republican primary for lieutenant governor over two others, the endorsed candidate and former state Senator John McKinney’s running mate. Florin has been enjoying a steady rise in a buffet of polls since her strong showing in the August 6th cocktail hour debate of seven Republican hopefuls who had not scored high enough in polls to make the main event of ten rivals later that evening.

In her endorsement of Fiorina, Somers declared in a written statement, “Through hard work, innovation, and natural leadership, Carly Fiorina rose from a secretary of a small, nine-person firm to the CEO of the largest consumer technology company in the world. Her experience and business savvy are just what we need in Washington.”

Somers’ tenure on Groton, Connecticut’s town council included two years as mayor. She is a member of the state’s Commission on Economic Competitiveness.