Tom Dudchik, a one term (1984 to 1986) state legislator from Ansonia/Derby who for years worked for both Republican U.S. Senator Lowell Weicker Jr. and independent Governor Lowell Weicker Jr. has launched a new political web site.
Frequent visitors to the Drudge Report will recognize the influence on the format of Dudchik’s Capitol Report, although Dudchik in an e-mail exchange noted his project is “Drudge looking, not Drudge leaning.”
“Capitol Report, like Drudge Report, is a one stop place for everything political. Interesting edited links. I read each story, and slug the link with my spin on the story. Sometimes what I think is important is buried in the last graph. That’s what I point out. People are busy. I believe they don’t want commentary, just stories,” Dudchik said. “I also believe that there’s great reporting going on all around the state. I want people from Manchester who read the Journal Inquirer to read Brian Lockhart. I want people in Stamford to read (the JI’s) Chris Powell. I want people in New London and Norwalk to read (the Connecticut Post’s/Stamford Advocate’s) Ken Dixon, and I want Greenwich people to read (the New London Day’s) Ted Mann.”
Tom currently lives in East Haddam where he has spent nearly three years raising two foster children
