Dan Malloy was endorsed by the Connecticut Democrats today as their candidate for governor by a slim margin of only four votes. The vote itself was marred by challenges to the votes of several delegations.
After the first roll call vote, DeStefano appeared to be leading Malloy 800-797, according to an unofficial count by CT-N and others. However, delegations were allowed to change their votes, and it appeared that after several delegations changed their votes that Malloy was ahead. Dan Malloy was seen moving all over the floor, as were many of his staff, before votes were changed.
The changed votes of Norwich, Danbury, West Haven, Hartford and Waterbury were challenged. The challenges to Norwich and Danbury were denied, but Malloy was left with enough votes to win the convention by the smallest of margins.
I will report more on this tomorrow, but Malloy was able to get enough votes through the competency of his own staff, and through the force of his own personality. John DeStefano will now come under enormous pressure to drop out before the August primary.
I am going home, now. This was an incredibly exciting convention to witness! The blog coverage of the convention was outstanding (look for photos and video from many sources, including myself, CT Bob, Connecticut Blog and others), and has established a great precedent for the involvement of citizen journalists in the future.
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VOTE LINE B
You now have a real choice
LINE A =DLC Ticket(Republican Lite)
Lieberman/Malloy
LINE B = Real Democrats
Lamont/Destefano
I couldn't be happier unless Dinardo was forced to resign for the truly Horrible job she did organizing this convention fiasco.
Hey Brassy,
Hows your congresswoman Nancy Doing.
Noone from Rowlandbury should ever talk about winning elections or being a Democrat.
I've met you Chis McC,
Way back when you were making believe you supported Howard Dean.I guess you were as unimpressed with me as I was with you.
I even watched you running back and forth to GC yesterday and whispering in his ear on numerous occasions yesterday.
Whats funny is the people who were giving you the information you were passing to GC told me Later they have the exact same opinion as I do of you but that Yesterday you were a Useful Idiot so they used you.
Have a good day.
By the way chris McC,
I did change my vote to JDS after he won the original vote and I watched as Malloy promised Jobs, money, favors and anything else to get people to change their vote.
Destefano won the conscience vote by 3 and Malloy won the goon vote by 4.
As far as being Lobbied by Rosa ,SO WHAT.Rosa ddn't change my vote and Bill Clinton couldn't have either.I voted present because Both candidates went along with a Cowardly Plan to Ignore the Iraq War for One Mans Benefit.They put Lieberman above the good of the party just like DiNardo and You did.
The only reason I changed my vote was Because Slime like you have no problem acting like Goons and twisting enough arms to get people to change their votes.Malloy won lane A and nothing more yesterday.The fact that he gets to be on the same line as Lieberman seems more like Justice than a Victory to me.
I am not a Democrat, but have a couple of questions / observations about the Democratic candidates.
First, I think Lieberman will probably win the nomination. The activists are the ones that go to the convention, but there were only around 1,500 votes total. I think that while Lamont has certain segments supporting him, the primary is very much Lieberman's to lose. However, if he does manage to lose it, then how could he possibly win the election running as an independent? If he runs as an independent, doesn't the Republican then have a realistic chance of winning.
If Lamont loses, especially if he loses by a relatively narrow margin, will this cause many Connecticut Democrats to sit out the election? Especially if Rell still has above 60% approval, so that race will also look pre-ordained. As I see some of the things that Lamont supporters are saying about Lieberman, I wonder if they'll really want to vote for Lieberman in November.
Finally, what are the major policy differences between Malloy and de Stefano? From the little reading I've done, it seems as if de Stefano is more liberal, but JDS's website had little on the way of specifics (he has various commissions making recommendations on things like energy policy, equal pay for equal work, etc). I'm not really sure where Malloy stands on anything because I haven't investigated, but it seems as if he is a bit more centrist.
Chris MC said: ...And, BTW, Chris Murphy is going to Congress next November, jerk...
He might; however one might consider two things prior to casting a strictly partisan vote.
1: Talk to Cheshire, Southington and Wolcott Democrats regardng his performance on the Southington Planning Board, and as both the 81st House and now 16th Senate office holder.
He doesn't call his own people back; ignores those that have helped him in the past. He casts people aside like yesterdays newspaper.
The saving grace to politics has always been, IMO at any rate, that it tends to be `warm blooded'. However both parties occasionally attract the wrong kind of people, those in the game for their own self-interest and not for any altruistic motives what-so-ever. Murphy is unfortunately one of "those". He does come across well - heck even I voted for him for PZC once.
2: Review Johnson's decades long record and see if she's as advertised by nut groups such as Moveon or far more moderate than that. (Many of the ultra-right, ultra-white David Duke faction of the GOP (only 2 or 3% in CT) refer to her as a "RINO". Some of us are trying to purge the party of them, not her.)
BTW - Chris Murphy is indeed a "jerk"; but I doubt that's what you meant in your original post.
-ACR
New Haven and West Hartford are only 2 of 169 Municipalities in Connecticut.JDS lost the convention by using Litchfield County and sucking up to those sleazebags in West hartford.
Andy Fleischmann,Scott Slifka,Maureen Megnan et al...are all opportunity grabbers and I will be so glad when Slifka loses the primary to Glassman in August.
Mary Glassman will be a great Lt Governor and DM Will be a terrific Governor.They won Because they were honest and Because their supporters were full of energy and kept their focus.
I will be glad that Slifka will still be West hartford Mayor,Megnan Town Chair and Fleischmann will be State Rep for Life like Bob Farr was for 26 years
True Blue I wouldn't vote for anyone in West Hartford after Saturday's episode. Blondin would of trounced Fleischmann for SOTS But will never ever know now will we???
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