July 1, 2009
Governor Rell’s flip-flop back flip on the Senate vacancy bill – which cans the Governor’s power to appoint the replacement for a Connecticut US Senate seat vacated mid-term in favor of a special election – has exposed the rift the chasm between the occupant of the only major Connecticut office held by a registered Republican and her Party.
Connecticut House minority leader, Norwalk Representative Larry Cafero, after a moment of mum, has been quoted in the press making some rather candid statements of his views on the matter.
”Maybe she completely changed her mind,” Cafero said sarcastically, rattling off a list of potential explanations. “Or her phone broke. Or she forgot that 48 out of 49 members of her own party, at her office’s request, spoke for over five hours in opposition to a bill that we felt was a direct slap to her personally because it took effect during her term.”
”It was clearly a political move,” Cafero said of the Senate vacancy bill. “She said it was. For her to today sign that was a complete about face of which we had no prior notice, so I guess you’d have to ask her why.”
This has sparked renewed speculation about the Cafero’s intentions for next year, bolstered of course by his website:
I am exploring greater opportunities to serve the city I cherish and the state I love. My commitment to Norwalk has never been stronger…our shared efforts on behalf of Connecticut’s future have never been more needed. — Larry Cafero
Where he might be headed may be problematic, since the CT04 Congressional nomination will be going to State Senator John McKinney (Fairfield, Easton, Newtown, Weston), and there is already a knot of Republican aspirants considering a run for Chris Dodd’s seat next year.
But depending on what M. Jodi Rell decides to do (or not) in 2010, and what happens in the under-ticket on the Democratic line, a run statewide may well be in the cards for him. Ironically, any such bid might pit him against Democratic State Rep Spallone (Essex), the vacancy bill’s principal sponsor, who has announced his interest in exploring a run for constitutional office.
One might wonder whom the Republicans and the Democrats might nominate to replace Larry in the House next year?
Source: Explore Cafero.
[h/t tparty]
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April 2, 2009
There are many occasions, where I wonder what our Norwalk legislative delegation is thinking about. Clearly, in the face of a suffocating $8 billion dollar deficit, you would hope that they would be thinking about how to cut expenses. As Minority Leader of the House, Larry Cafero gets lots of ink time. So we start with his latest comments on decriminalizing the possession of less than half an ounce of pot. Call it the martini equivalent.
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