Earlier in the week I interviewed Dan Malloy, current mayor of Stamford and former gubernatorial candidate. As always, Malloy impressed with his firm grasp of not only operating a major city, but of the regional and statewide issues that effect us all. This is the first part of that interview.

Malloy recently presented a Stamford city budget that the Stamford Advocate reported would increase property taxes by 8%. But on the subject of budgets Malloy pointed out, “City side government continues to be smaller than when I took office in 1995. Technology and training are ongoing investments; if you do it, it pays.”

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Running for political office in Connecticut as a challenger can be a daunting experience. A good campaigner will walk the district, knocking on doors and introducing themselves in hopes of catching a resident open to meeting someone willing to serve for public office. Invariably though, the tales of the door knocking campaigners include the mythic being chased by a dog, after all dogs view the lone campaigner armed with campaign literature as being from the same species as the US Postal worker, and we all know what that means.

Running In The 61^st

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