Connecticut Post columnist Ken Dixon has been known to be candid.
As a reporter for decades, he has seen many politicians come and go. So, as a veteran journalist, he was asked to be the moderator this week at a Bridgeport hotel for a debate that featured 10 aspirants for the governor’s office.
Before the debate even started, Dixon looked down the long, long table at the 10 candidates and said to the crowd: “I, like you, am looking forward to the conventions next week when half of these people will disappear.”
The crowd that gathered for the debate, sponsored by the Bridgeport Regional Business Council, both laughed and groaned.
The Republican and Democratic state conventions will be held on the same days – May 21 and May 22 – and they will both be held in Hartford. The Democrats will have 1,834 delegates at the Expo Center in the North Meadows, while the Republicans will have 1,465 delegates at the Connecticut Convention Center.