GOP Chairman Chris Healy had a great line a few years ago about 20-year Democratic Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s ongoing flirtation with running for another political office (before Blumenthal in January decided to enter the U.S. Senate race).
Healy called it the longest political strip tease in Connecticut history.
Former Democratic Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy has been performing his own Dance of the Seven Veils since he formed an exporatory committee to run for Governor last February.
Healy even filed a complaint with the state Elections Enforcement Commission alleging Malloy was acting too much like a candidate to be allowed to remain in exploratory phase. Exploratory committees enjoy fundraising advantages under Connecticut’s public campaign finance system.
Tomorrow at noon Malloy will drop trou and file paperwork formalizing his candidacy with the state Elections Enforcement Commission in Hartford.
Keeping with the stripper theme, what this means is that supporters of Malloy-the-candidate can only stuff a maximum of $100 worth of donations into his G-string, as opposed to the $375 allowed while he was in exploratory mode.
“Keeping with the stripper theme, what this means is that supporters of Malloy-the-candidate can only stuff a maximum of $100 worth of donations into his G-string, as opposed to the $375 allowed while he was in exploratory mode.”
You think he’ll stay in the public financing system? I don’t.
Comment by Serge — March 9th, 2010 @ 11:31 am
What happens to the supporters who gave him more that the $100 IF he chooses to do public financing? Does he have to reimburse those people? Also, someone should double and triple check his donor list to be sure that nothing is overlooked as an “over-donation”.
Comment by Roxy — March 10th, 2010 @ 2:39 pm