With the September 18th date looming on the horizon, and the newly formed senate committee to investigate State Senator DeLuca, the pieces are moving into place for DeLuca’s resignation. From the Courant:

The first Republican senator called Wednesday for the resignation of Sen. Louis C. DeLuca, only hours after top senators announced the formation of a special committee to investigate DeLuca’s guilty plea for conspiring to threaten his granddaughter’s husband.

Sen. David Cappiello, of Danbury, who has known DeLuca for 15 years, said calling for the resignation of the former top GOP leader was difficult.

“We all know Lou is a good man who got caught up in a bad thing,” Cappiello said Wednesday night. “Many of us were hoping he would do the right thing and step down before further legislative action was taken. … I think Lou, when he steps back, frankly will do the right thing. I don’t want to see him, or my colleagues, go through what we would go through over the next three months.”

Since the 6 member Senate committee wouldn’t convene till November, the pressure is now on DeLuca to do the right thing and resign. The Spetember 18th deadline is the last date he could resign so that a special election could be held for his replacement concurrent with the November 6 election. After that date a special election would be held separately.

source: Courant, GOP Senator Asks DeLuca To Resign, By CHRISTOPHER KEATING, August 2, 2007