{"id":261778,"date":"2010-02-01T12:03:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T17:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.70839"},"modified":"2010-02-01T12:12:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T17:12:43","slug":"sen-gary-lebeau-drops-out-of-governors-race-will-likely-run-for-re-election-as-senator-from-east-hartford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/261778","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Gary LeBeau Drops Out Of Governor&#8217;s Race; Will Likely Run For Re-Election As Senator From East Hartford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Sen. Gary LeBeau dropped out of the governor&#8217;s race on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The East Hartford Democrat had been among the lowest-favored candidates in the latest Quinnipiac University poll &#8211; trailing far behind Democrats Ned Lamont of Greenwich and Dannel Malloy of Stamford.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With deep regret and strong sense of achievement, I am ending my bid for the Democratic nomination for governor,&#8221; LeBeau wrote in an e-mail to supporters. &#8220;I thank you and my many supporters who have given me encouragement, advice, time and donations over the past 12 months.&nbsp; I am wiser and wealthier as a result of this experience, and you are a key reason.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He continued, &#8220;You know, last year I started this campaign with the idea that jobs and Connecticut&#8217;s economic future are the most important challenges facing our state.&nbsp;At that time, I, &#8211;drawing on my many years of experience chairing the legislative Commerce Committee &#8212; was virtually the only one saying this. Now, every candidate has recognized the importance of this issue.&nbsp;&nbsp;I will continue to fight for a more competitive and prosperous Connecticut, most likely by seeking reelection as state senator.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Sen. Gary LeBeau dropped out of the governor&#8217;s race on Monday morning. The East Hartford Democrat had been among the lowest-favored candidates in the latest Quinnipiac University poll &#8211; trailing far behind Democrats Ned Lamont of Greenwich and Dannel Malloy of Stamford. &#8220;With deep regret and strong sense of achievement, I am ending my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}