Hartford businessman Oz Griebel’s gubernatorial campaign today is promoting a new, bare bones web video of the candidate entitled “Divided Team.”
In it Griebel, a Republican, talks about how coaching sports teams has taught him the skills the next Governor needs to head to Hartford and get Connecticut’s “dysfunctional government” working again.
“I’ve never seen a divided team succeed,” Griebel says.
I haven’t heard/read every stump speech given by the handful of Republican gubernatorial candidates, but they often blame the Democratic-majority General Assembly for the state’s woes (retiring Gov. M. Jodi Rell is a Republican).
But Connecticut is traditionally a blue state and while the GOP has the opportunity to make gains in the legislature come November, it’s likely the Democrats will at least maintain control of that body even if they lose their veto-proof majority.
Griebel’s new ad strikes me as an admission by the campaign that this is the likeliest scenario, so they’re positioning their man as the Republican who can reach across the aisle and get something done.
After all, Griebel could have instead taped an ad asking voters to send him to the capitol AND a Republican majority to the General Assembly.
That ad is a travesty….I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy. Combined with arguably the most sophomoric “strategic” memo “leaked” the other day, I cannot believe Oz is paying someone for this stuff. I’m a big fan of his, but this is amateur hour.
Comment by Bruce — March 9th, 2010 @ 12:00 pm