Connecticut’s public campaign financing spared — for now

Scores of Connecticut politicians reliant on public campaign financing got a stay of execution when Gov. Dannel P. Malloy vetoed the Republican budget last week, but some are still making contingency plans during the ongoing impasse over the state’s $3.6 billion deficit. The fluid nature of the negotiations, which are entering their fourth month, has cast uncertainty over the state’s decade-old clean-elections program. The GOP’s budget fix called for raiding $35 million from the Citizens’ Election Fund for 2018, creating potential upheaval for state office hopefuls who have spent as much as a year raising qualifying contributions for public aid.

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