2014 Connecticut Gubernatorial debates and race coverage


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Abortion     Tom Foley: Pro-choice.

Budget & Economy     Tom Foley: Tax credits are spending; oppose $400M job expansion credits.     Tom Foley: AdWatch: Malloy's policies drive jobs out of state.

Civil Rights     Tom Foley: Maintain gay marriage law, although personally against it.

Corporations     Dan Malloy: Invest state funds in businesses that preserve in-state jobs.     Tom Foley: We pay huge sums in corporate welfare to keep jobs in CT.     Tom Foley: Investigate Economic and Community Development loan fraud.     Dan Malloy: Businesses should suggest which state regulations to abandon.     Dan Malloy: Small Business Express Program: grants for 944 companies.     Tom Foley: Small Business Express Program is too generous with aid.     Tom Foley: Criticized for bankruptcy of a Georgia textile mill.

Crime     Tom Foley: Veto efforts to repeal the death penalty.     Tom Foley: Arrested twice for motor vehicle incidents.

Drugs     Tom Foley: Recreational marijuana use is a gateway drug.

Education     Tom Foley: In-district public school choice, money follows the child.     Tom Foley: Charters are part of the solution, but not whole solution.     Tom Foley: Local control instead of Common Core mandates.

Energy & Oil     Tom Foley: No gas tax increase to pay for rail transport.     Dan Malloy: Moving Canadian oil thru the US is not best for the economy.

Families & Children     Dan Malloy: 21-year-old son arrested in robbery, suffering depression.

Free Trade     Dan Malloy: Trade trips to China to promote aerospace & bioscience.

Government Reform     Peter Lumaj: Peter's Plan: require voter ID; end same-day registration.     Tom Foley: AdWatch: Complains about ethics, but was fined for PAC.     Tom Foley: 2010: criticized public campaign financing; 2014: accepts it.

Gun Control     Ned Lamont: We learn first hand the cost of unregulated gun ownership.     Ned Lamont: Ban bump stocks, and other common sense restrictions.     Tom Foley: Newtown law added inconveniences on law-abiding citizens.     Tom Foley: Let stand current gun laws, but no specific proposals.     Tom Foley: Enough on gun control; focus on preventing another Newtown.     Tom Foley: Supports 2nd amendment but require reporting stolen firearms.

Health Care     Tom Foley: Post costs for treatments to give consumers options.

Homeland Security     Tom Foley: Appoint veteran-friendly Commissioner of Veterans Affairs.

Immigration     Tom Foley: House child refugee immigrants at Southbury Training School.     Tom Foley: We need a federal comprehensive immigration policy.

Jobs     Tom Foley: OpEd: His company moved 3,000 jobs to Mexico.     Tom Foley: Raise minimum wage nationally, but focus on jobs in CT.     Tom Foley: Pledge not to change public employee collective bargaining.

Principles & Values     Tom Foley: 1981: Arrested for 1st-degree attempted assault in car crash.     Tom Foley: Will not participate in primary debates.     Tom Foley: AdWatch: NYC residents should move to CT under new governor.     Tom Foley: Partial facial paralysis means he smiles on only left side.

Technology     Tom Foley: No comment on reducing mass transit funding.     Dan Malloy: Invest in Jackson Labs & Bioscience Connecticut.

Welfare & Poverty     Tom Foley: New urban enterprise zones and urban renewal initiatives.

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