Of course not. Why screw up a good thing, like distance in the polls? That’s the obvious reason why Ned Lamont, the Greenwich millionaire (TGM) doesn’t want to mix it up one-on-one with Dan Malloy, the former 14-year Stamford mayor, before the August 10 Democratic gubernatorial primary. That’s why Linda McMahon (TGM) doesn’t want to appear with Peter Schiff, the Weston financial adviser, or the newly revived Rob Simmons, for that matter, prior to the Republican U.S. Senate primary. That’s why Tom Foley, TGM, should be avoiding televised debates with Lt. Gov. Michael Fedele of Stamford and R. Nelson “Oz” Griebel of Simsbury, but the trio will be in New London on next Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Garde Center.
In fact, the Garde figures in one of the great non-debate stories dating back to 2000 when then-Waterbury Mayor Phil Giordano was the GOP opponent for U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, who was running for vice president that year as well as re-election to the Senate. Lieberman just couldn’t….find…enough….time to appear with Giordano, who was essentially GOP cannon fodder on his way to an eventual federal prison sentence for sex crimes against underaged children. In his only good move of that campaign, Giordano traveled around with a cardboard Lieberman cutout that election season. The Blogster remembers Giordano unfolding the cutout in the Garde’s front hall.
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