It seems the secretary of the state calculated that a) she might not be able win the governor’s office (with this economy, who’d want to be governor anyway? It’s a no-win job.) against a Republican moneybags like Greenwich zillionaire/corporate takeover artist/GOP rainmaker Tom Foley and b) Dick Blumenthal’s finally leaving the AG’s office after nearly 20 years to wrestle Linda McMahon for the US Senate nomination (yeah, the Blogster likes McMahon over Simmons in the primary: she’s the self-funding candidate conservatives want) leaves the high-profile do-gooder platform open for, dare-she-dream, her own US Senate run in 2012 when Joe Lieberman either campaigns for Stamford animal control officer or retires to K Street, finally joining his corporate keepers.
But there’s that lingering issue of whether Bysiewicz “practiced” as a lawyer the requisite 10 years, to give her the minimum CV requirements to be Connecticut’s top civil attorney. The Blogster believes there’s some kind of bad lawyer joke in here, but this morning will leave it up to gentle, cynical readers to create their own. Bysiewicz, who seemed so happy recently when Blumenthal made an oblique ruling on requirements for attorney general, now seems endlessly calculating today. Beating Democratic State Chairwoman Nancy DiNardo to the punch, Bysiewicz will announce that she’ll use her own money to bring the issue of her experience before a state Superior Court judge. This is all part of the run up to the weekend of May 21, when Democrats (and Republicans, for that matter) will meet in Hartford for their statewide nominating conventions. Bysiewicz has hundreds of thousands of dollars in her exploratory committee, but any lingering questions about her experience would create the kind of questions in the minds of delegates that two other AG hopefuls, George Jepsen of Ridgefield and Rep. Cam Staples, D-New Haven, co-chairman of the tax-writing legislative Finance Committee, would love to answer.