Ned Lamont announced his candidacy for governor today and the best part of his speech is here:
I graduated from Harding and now teach at Central Connecticut State, where we reach out to businesses to see what they need. Why is insurance moving to Iowa? They need more accountants. So we need to start graduating more actuaries and accountants.
Can Bridgeport now adopt Ned as graduate of Harding High? He must of meant Harvard, right? Ah, but Ned did serve as a volunteer teacher at Harding sharing his busines skills with kids. For Ned’s full remarks http://tinyurl.com/LamontAnnouncement
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There are many graduates of Harding in the community, but no one named Ned Lamont!
Ned Lamont was a weekly guest speaker in a business class at Harding and did a couple of photo ops with selected Harding students in front of the school. That is more than a lot of people do for Bridgeport, but it sure doesn’t make him any kind of teacher and for sure it does not make him a “man of the people”.
I guess the purpose was to try to establish a link between the wealthy Greenwich politico and the downtrodden poor minorities that reside in Bridgeport.
No Lamont sightings at Harding since then.
Ned Lamont, God forbid…
I googled Mr. Lamont and found that he indeed did not graduate from Harding High School but from Phillips Exeter Academy.