Why Cafero Won’t Run For Governor

Larry Cafero officially announced that he has no plans to run for Governor but that he plans on keeping running for re-election as State Rep and as Minority Leader. They why isn’t all that hard to figure out, why would anyone want to run for Governor of Connecticut these days? The projected deficit for 2011-12 is $3 billion. The  legislature seems incapable of figuring out that somehow revenues needs to be raised, expenses need to be cut and the state has to steer itself into the 21st Century.

Can any Republican Governor be effective with a Democratic controlled legislature in Hartford? The short answer is no. Rell has figured that out, and so I think has Cafero. As the minority leader of the fighting 44, Cafero has been far more effective at forcing the legislative Democrats into reacting to alternative proposals than has the Governor. To get to be governor, on both sides of the aisle are the fleet of candidates, who will spar through a primary season, leaving little time to figure out how best to slide back to the center where general elections are won.

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  • Andrea Light

    so that’s why it seemed like everyone was becoming a Mike Fedele fan on facebook…geesh….

  • just watching

    Larry is my state rep and not a very good one. He and Giuliani are not running for the same reason… they are making too much money in their jobs – it has nothing to do with “spending time with the family” :)

  • gruntled

    Larry is not my state rep but I wouldn’t vote for him if he was. He has been totally inefective at getting us our fare share of state monies and the last thing we need in Hartford is another ineffective politician. Even his peers would rather play solitaire than listen to him. Sorry if this sounds mean.