During today’s gubernatorial-candidates forum, Republican rainmaker/multi-millionaire Tom Foley, whose first run at public office is governor of Connecticut, indicated he’s a little out of touch with Greenwich wealth, forgetting Lowell P. Weicker, the former town resident, U.S. Senator and independent governor, was one of his income-bracket homies.
“I don’t think it’s correct to say that you have to be a millionaire to run for office. Gov. Rell is not a millionaire that I know of, John Rowland wasn’t a millionaire, Lowell Weicker, as far as I know, wasn’t a millionaire,” said Foley, who was immediately interupted by the moderator, Pat Sheehan, a former local TV anchor. “Lowell was,” Sheehan injected.
Foley: “He wasn’t known as a millionaire or as a wealthy person or someone who could fund his own campaign.” Maybe not in Foley’s neighborhood in Greenwich, but the Blogster recalls that Weicker, who’ll go down in history for being the Republican U.S. Senator who hounded Ricjard Nixon out of office, had big pharmaceutical wealth in his background.