Roughly 2,000 delegates will gather this weekend at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford to endorse Democratic candidates for statewide office. Friday (tonight) is reserved to nominate U.S. Senator Chris Murphy to a second, six-year term. Saturday morning delegates will weigh in on the state’s six constitutional offices. Ned Lamont will be endorsed for governor. Other than that the question centers on Joe Ganim securing 15 percent support to make the August primary ballot. If he falls short, Ganim is petitioning onto the ballot that requires more than 15,000 verified signatures from Connecticut Democrats. He says his campaign has amassed more than 10,000. June 12 is the deadline submission.
Eva Bermudez Zimmerman, a union activist from Newtown, has added intrigue to the lieutenant governor’s race as a late entry after Lamont’s selection of Susan Bysiewicz to run with him touched of a backlash from political operatives criticizing lack of ticket diversity. Technically the governor and lieutenant governor slots run separately in primaries. They run as a ticket in the general election.
More from Ken Dixon, CT Post:
Though Lamont’s nomination is all but assured, the same can’t be said for Bysiewicz, a former secretary of the state and state representative from Middletown. Despite declaring themselves a team, the governor and lieutenant governor positions have separate nominating processes.
Other races to watch in the convention include the Attorney General’s race in which there are four candidates competing: William Tong, a state representative from Stamford, Chris Mattei, the former federal prosecutor who put former Gov. John Rowland in prison, assistant attorney general Clare Kindall and state Sen. Paul Doyle, of Wethersfield.
In the Treasurer’s race there are also four candidates, including two Greewnich residents Dita Bhargava Bhargava, a former hedge fund portfolio manager, and John Blankley, who has worked as a chartered accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers and as chief financial officer of BP North America. Others include Shawn Wooden, the former President of the Hartford City Council and Arunan Arulampalam, a lawyer who advises banks and financial institutions.
Full story here.
For the 90 Bridgeport delegates and the alternates they can party tonight and cry on Saturday listening to this:
https://youtu.be/gmQuIpM4h6A
This is Joe torching the Democratic convention just to descend his own needs.
He will encourage her to run and vomit Bridgeport’s delegation to support him but won’t do a damn thing to help her once the gavel comes down to end the convention.
Figure out the typos for yourself although I do like VOMIT in stead of commit.
Bermudez Triangle! A real ménage-a-trois. Her, her husband and the SEIOU! Malloy Cubed.
Is Joe black or Latino. I’m not sure.
There was a canvasser at Stop & Shop last night asking customers to sign a petition for Guy Smith. This is never a successful strategy.
If this is their strategy, my guess is that neither he or Stallworth make it onto the ballot.
In addition, the Smith campaign has not submitted petitions to the Bridgeport registrar’s office yet for verification so it has no idea about signature success ratio.
Guy Smith, a former Diageo liquor executive, doesn’t have any Gin and Juice.
Where’s the Bombay!
It’s on the rocks.