Primary Results Are In: Foley Gets the GOP Nod

GOP Gubenatorial Race was down to the wire, but Foley came out ahead

The CT Mirror Reports: A dispute over vote tallies from one of Connecticut's largest cities pushed the battle for the Republican gubernatorial nomination late into the night between Tom Foley and Michael Fedele.

But the third GOP gubernatorial contender, Oz Griebel, bowed out shortly after 10:30 p.m., when unofficial results showed him trailing Foley by 24 percentage points.

Fedele, Connecticut's lieutenant governor since 2007 and a former state representative from Stamford, claimed that he had just won his home city by about 3,000 votes, about the same time the Associated Press projected Foley as the winner.

Read more from the CT Mirror's coverage of the GOP race here