The Hartford Courant:
Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz is expected to announce Wednesday that she is running for attorney general, according to Capitol sources.
Bysiewicz, 48, has scheduled an announcement at 11 a.m. Wednesday at city hall in her hometown of Middletown, according to her campaign manager, Tanya Meck.
“There’s been a lot of speculation,” Meck said. “You’ve got to hear it from her, not me.”
State Rep. Stephen Dargan, a West Haven Democrat who served in the legislature with Bysiewicz, said, “This is not ordinary times. Everybody is trying to make a decision on where they’re going to run. Something that she always wanted to do was run for governor, but she wanted to be AG, too. She’s got the name recognition, and she’ll probably be the favorite for the AG’s office.”
This is more than a little baffling. Yeah, there’s little doubt that Bysiewicz would be the front-runner for the AG position, but she also looked very strong in the gubernatorial race, beating her Republican competitors by over 20 points. PPP also showed that two of the other Democrats in the race, Ned Lamont and Stamford Mayor Dan Malloy, also posted sizable leads over the GOP field. Former House Speaker James Amann is also running in the Democratic primary, but with the front-runner out, could this mean that more names could emerge to fill the void?
The Attorney General’s race doesn’t exactly have a clear field, either: former Senate Majority Leader George Jepsen announced today that he’s exploring the race.
RaceTracker Wiki: CT-Gov
Weird.
Maybe there’s some huge new contender about to enter the gov race (though I can’t imagine who)? Otherwise, that’s bizarre.
Or she’s decided she wants to run against Lieberman in 2012 instead and so is running for this as a placeholder position?
that George Jepsen would give up his day job at Spacely Sprockets just to run for AG.