Who is the Republican challenger in CT? I have been focused on the

[Midlodemocrat]

Webb/Allen fight here, so I beg your indulgence. I am a native Nutmegger and care deeply about what transpires in my home state.


TIA.

[efhmc]

1. I have absoutely no idea, but do you really refer to yourselves

as "nutmeggers"???

[Midlodemocrat]

2. LOL. The UConn yearbook used to be called the Nutmegger.

I think now, CT ites call themselves 'Huskies' in honor of the NCAA boys and girls B-ball teams.

[VTMechEngr]

9. better to be a nutmegger, or Connectikite vs

A Masshole B-)

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. A guy named Schlesinger (AKA Alan Gold) with a gambling problem:

http://www.casinocitytimes.com/news/article.cfm?contentId=159763

Republican Candidate Used Fake Name at Casino
14 July 2006

CONNECTICUT – As reported by the Norwich Bulletin: "Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Alan Schlesinger said he was simply trying to be left alone while gambling at Foxwoods Resort Casino when he got a Wampum Rewards card with a fake name.

"Schlesinger said Thursday that he got the card in the early 1990s when he played blackjack occasionally. He said dealers constantly asked him if he wanted a card and he finally broke down and got one to avoid the questions.

"…Schlesinger said he used the fake name Alan Gold to protect his privacy because the casino was controversial in the area. He said he also didn't want to receive marketing promotions from the casino by mail…"

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2006/07/21/in_connecticut_bombshell_hits_schlesinger_campaign.html

July 21, 2006
In Connecticut, Bombshell Hits Schlesinger Campaign

The Hartford Courant sent a bunker bomb in to Connecticut Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Alan Schlesinger’s flagging campaign today with revelations that the former legislator was successfully sued for thousands of dollars in casino debts he ran up in Atlantic City venues. Schlesinger’s campaign was rocked last week by the news that, among other things, he had gambled in a Connecticut Indian casino under an assumed name, Alan Gold. His luck will have run out now.

Word of his gambling debts will renew calls for Schlesinger to abandon his tattered candidacy. His falling fortunes caused much speculation Thursday on a successor candidate in the wake of a Quinnipiac poll showing Democrat challenger Ned Lamont leading incumbent Joseph Lieberman for the first time in the August 8th primary. Fainthearted Republicans who had declined to run in the spring, when they thought Lamont a minor protest candidate, are witnessing the rare second chance in the simultaneous declines of Lieberman and Schlesinger.

The 72 member Republican State Central Committee fill vacancies in the state ticket. It is a collection of the sclerotic and highly partisan, rather than a congress of the practical.

...


Others may start exploring bids as calls grow insistent that Schlesinger walk the plank.

-- Guest contributor Kevin Rennie is a columnist for the Hartford Courant.

[Midlodemocrat]

4. Thank you. My poltical junkie brother has been pre-occupied

with family issues and I didn't want to bug him. I appreciate the name.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

5. What's interesting is that the WaPo, Hartford Courant, and Conn. Post

articles about this fake name and bad gambling debts are no longer available online. The local papers with low storage/bandwith I can maybe understand, but WaPo???

[Midlodemocrat]

6. You know what? Give me until the morning, because I am

dog tired and I will check Lexis Nexis. If I don't get back to you by lunch, send me a PM.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. Okay!

[carpetbagger]

8. Some fellow named Joe Lieberman. n/t