The Lamonts, Governor Ned Lamont and his lovely wife Annie Lamont, an accomplished money-making investor, have been with us a long while. Ned Lamont first entered politics under the sheltering wings of former Governor and U.S. Senator Lowell Weicker, a Republican millionaire bumped by Connecticut Republicans way back in 1988 when they realized that Senator Weicker, who as governor graced the state with an income tax, was a Teddy Kennedy Democrat in disguise. Weicker served in the U.S. Senate for three terms from 1971 to 1989. Weicker’s Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) rating during his last year in the Senate was ten points higher than that of U.S. Senator Chris Dodd, not a “moderate Republican.” Moderate Connecticut Republicans espied Weicker’s Democrat Party leanings when rarely subtle Weicker boasted of himself that he was “the turd in the Republican Party punchbowl.” Neo-progressive revolutionists with knives in their brains, socialists teetering on the edg...
Governor Ned Lamont spoke over the heads of moderate Democrat delegates to a different neo-progressive constituency in his acceptance speech as the Democrat Nominating Convention concluded. He was addressing the 25% of delegates who voted for Josh Elliott, a neo-progressive heartthrob some quasi-socialist Democrats in Connecticut regard as the Zohran Mamdani of Connecticut. Elliot, who garnered a sufficient number of delegate votes to primary Lamont, has vowed to engage the governor, considered by some a moderate Democrat, in a primary. The delegate count, Elliott has said, did not adequately portray his delegate support. He believes he would have won the endorsement had the delegate vote been anonymous. “People were afraid to cast their votes against the governor,” he said. “I’ve been hearing threat after threat from people if they voted against the governor today. I’ve been telling people to channel that frustration into energy over the next three months. We have ...