Tag: Kevin Lembo

Political insiders thought Ned Lamont was done with politics. “And I was town chairman of the Democratic Party in Greenwich, Ned’s hometown, from 2008 to 2015. It’s the most politically active I've ever been in my life, and I don't recall him doing anything more than an ordinary citizen would do.” Back in the real world The day after his 16-point loss to now-Gov. For the first five years after the election, Lamont said, his day-to-day was spent working on the company’s transition in the morning, and in the afternoons, he sometimes taught classes at Central Connecticut State, or did work for one of the many boards he served on. Running for governor, he said, wasn’t even on his radar. I just figured I’d be able to help ... from there, we put together a study group and worked with all of the major employers in the state. “I thought probably I could better serve from the outside than from the inside,” Lamont said. Dannel P. Malloy — each declined to run, the name left at the top of the list was none other than Lamont. David Pudlin, a former state House majority leader and political consultant who worked on Lamont’s 2006 campaign, called Lamont a “unifying factor” at the convention after the party expressed some now-unfounded fears about the Republican Party. In hindsight, the fears turned out to not be true, but I think those are accurate things we could take from the past.” That assessment makes sense to Farricker, the Democratic insider and former Lottery Board chairman.