Senate President Pro Tem Donald Williams is scheduled to endorse Ned Lamont for governor today.
The endorsement will be made in Williams’s district in Putnam on the Rhode Island border, which is one of the furthest towns in Connecticut from Lamont’s hometown of Greenwich. It will mark the highest-ranking legislative endorsement for Lamont.
Lamont and Williams are friends from their days working together as co-chairs of Barack Obama’s campaign for the presidency in 2008.
Lamont is currently leading in the latest Quinnipiac University poll over former Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy. Three other Democrats – Simsbury First Selectman Mary Glassman, Ridgefield First Selectman Rudy Marconi, and former state Rep. Juan Figueroa – are also running. Figueroa will be collecting signatures in an attempt to place his name on the ballot, while the others are all vying to garner 15 percent of the delegates at the Democratic convention in May in Hartford.