HARTFORD — State Rep. Harry Arora of Greenwich, the Republican candidate for state treasurer who failed to win a cross endorsement from the Independent Party of Connecticut, cannot force the secretary of the state to remove the minor party nominee from state election ballots, a judge ruled on Monday. Superior Court Judge John Farley, in an announcement from the bench after a morning-long hearing, said that while Arora's attorney Proloy Das made some good arguments and exposed weaknesses in state election law, the fact that Arora filed the court challenge after Jennifer Baldwin of Guilford won the Independent Party nomination in August, worked against Arora. "The court finds in favor of the defendants," Farley said, stressing that Arora's court challenge "could have been timely," but was delayed until mid-September. Farley said that when Arora actively pursued the Independent Party nomination, he waived the right to pursue the deletion of the minor party from the ballot. It … [Read more...] about Republican Harry Arora loses challenge to Independent Party candidate for state treasurer