Monday May 5, 2008
It’s noonish and the state Senate is bidding adieu to Sen. David Cappiello, who’s gambling that he can unseat U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, D-5 after one term.
What the Senate does best is eat (actually it’s what majority Democratic senators do best) and congratulate each other.
But it’s a smaller group, 36, than the House, 151 and personal bonds may be a little closer there than in the rough-and-tumble lower chamber.
Be that as it may, “the circle” has just concluded a send-off of good wishes for Cappiello, R-Danbury, who had two terms in the House followed by five terms in the Senate.
Sen. Judi Freedman, R-Westport, who’s leaving the Senate herself after 11 terms, was one of the last senators to offer praise a few minutes ago.
And unlike the mere words that filled the Senate chamber, Freedman also presented Cappiello with a coloring book called “A Visit to the White House.” Murphy, anticipating another big Democratic wind in Washington this November, probably hopes that’s as close as Cappiello ever gets.