Mr. Malloy is in a tight race with Tom Foley, a Republican former ambassador to Ireland.
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During the time that Tom Foley was Speaker, Bob Michel was also the Republican leader.
But his success in bringing it off was due rather more to his professional kinship with Big Tom Foley.
Tom Foley, a Republican former ambassador to Ireland, , has gained on the one-time front runner, former Stamford Mayor Dan Malloy.
The governor is also making a particular push for Tom Foley, the Independence candidate for the fourth congressional district.
When Michel was Minority Leader, he worked alongside staunch Democrats Tip O'Neill and Tom Foley (each a former House Speaker).
In flooded Atlantic City late Monday, National Guard and other officials were trying to rescue nearly 500 people from their homes, said Tom Foley, the city's director of emergency management.
"That often prohibits candidates who otherwise would be important candidates and good members of Congress from getting sufficient funds, " says former House Speaker Tom Foley, who lost his Washington seat in the 1994 Republican overthrow.
It honors Thomas F. (Big Tom) Foley (1852-1925), a prominent alderman, saloonkeeper, and Tammany Hall sachem.
Hayworth, Richard Pombo, Sue Kelly, Nancy Johnson, Tom DeLay and Mark Foley.
Rep. Tim Mahoney -- a south-central Florida Democrat elected to replace scandal-plagued GOP Rep. Mark Foley in 2006 -- lost to his Republican challenger, Tom Rooney.
The Democrats might, indeed, lose some of the seats they took from scandal-tainted incumbents in 2006, such as the Texas seat of Tom DeLay (alleged campaign-finance violations) or the Florida seat of Mark Foley (flirting with teenagers).
"With Newt out and Livingston not sworn in yet, Tom is the de facto Speaker, " says one of DeLay's deputies, Representative Mark Foley of Florida.
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