From Maura at My Left Nutmeg:
A few weeks after having dinner with local party chairs and less than a week after former Rangers goalie Mike Richter was introduced to the Democratic Congressional caucus in DC, Richter has made calls to key players in the the district today to say he has decided not to challenge Shays next year.
I’m disappointed that things didn’t pan out for Richter, but since he didn’t have ties to the district, I think it would have been hard to beat the carpetbagger rap. I’d like to see him return to an area where he has real roots, work the scene for a few years, and then run. I think he would make a huge splash.
But as for CT-04, Maura tells us about the great candidate we’ve got who actually is running:
Jim Himes has done an impressive job of beginning to lay the cornerstones of his campaign against Shays. In the past two weeks, Himes has published great op-ed pieces against Shays in the Greenwich Citizen and two days ago in the The Advocate (Stamford and Norwalk) and Greenwich Time.
More biographical details in Maura’s post, plus some info on how Himes is already kickin’ the tires and lightin’ some fires. With Chris Shays running up a serious borrowed-time debt, I think this race could shape up to be the marquee challenge in the Northeast this cycle.
Race Tracker: CT-04
…it wasn’t meant to be this time.
There goes 2 years of hockey-related posts that I had ready to unleash. Sigh…
Some excerpts from an article in today’s Roll Call:
There is some doubt as to whether Himes will self-fund. Maura has more analysis on the race to take on Christopher Shays over at My Left Nutmeg.
Jim Himes, who is strongly considering a run against Christopher Shays in CT-04, has authored a guest post at Connecticut Local Politics outlining the issues that might inspire his run:
From a comment by Himes in response to questions following the post: