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Governor Talking Like A Candidate
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| Last Edited | None Entered Jul 01, 2005 01:47am |
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| News Date | Thursday, June 23, 2005 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Northeast magazine will report Sunday that Gov. M. Jodi Rell is "more likely than not" going to run for a full term in 2006. In a wide-ranging interview that Rell requested, Northeast political columnist Kevin Rennie says the governor appears to have crossed that decisive line and plans to seek a full term. Rennie also will report that a confidant of the governor's says the Rell team is hoping her opponent will be four-term attorney general, Richard Blumenthal, conventionally considered the Republicans' worst nightmare as a gubernatorial candidate because of his high profile. Here are excerpts from Sunday's Northeast story by Rennie:
Gov. M. Jodi Rell has skyrocketed from obscurity to triumph in the past year. She quickly emerged from her disgraced predecessor's dark shadow to become the state's most confident and popular politician.
Now the middle-class everywoman, who calls herself "the lady next door," is ready to run for a term of her own.
In a two-hour lunch she requested at Hartford's sleek Peppercorn's Grill, Rell revealed that although she has made no final decision, she will "more likely than not" be a candidate for governor next year. One confidant puts her at 70 percent likely to run and growing more comfortable with seeking a full term.
Overlook any hesitation. Rell talks like a candidate. She thinks like a candidate. She collects the sort of anecdotes that have allowed her to move into candidate mode: that unfortunate state of mind where gray disappears, and all is transformed into vivid black and white.
The lady has not lost the capacity to surprise. She sounds like she wants to run against Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, defying conventional wisdom that he would be her most formidable foe.
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