{"id":575867,"date":"2010-05-22T16:43:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T20:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.78532"},"modified":"2010-05-22T17:00:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T21:00:24","slug":"farrell-gets-gop-nod-for-secretary-of-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/575867","title":{"rendered":"Farrell Gets GOP Nod For Secretary Of The State"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jenna Carlesso<\/p>\n

Jerry Farrell Jr., the state’s consumer protection commissioner, is the Republicans’ choice for the next secretary of the<\/font> <\/span>state.<\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Farrell defeated Corey Brinson, a lawyer from Bloomfield and the Republicans’ only African-American candidate<\/font>,<\/span> to seize the convention endorsement today. Democrat Susan Bysiewicz is vacating the seat.<\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Farrell, 42, of Wallingford, has served as commissioner since 2006. He said his goals were to foster job growth, particularly in small businesses, and drive down state spending.<\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

“I’m going to walk in there and clean it up,” he said. “We can’t let government … just creep along the way it is.”<\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Farrell said he expected to win the endorsement, but made sure he put in the work to secure the votes.<\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

“I left no stone unturned,” he said. “You don’t go into this kind of thing over-confident.”<\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Brinson, who garnered nearly 40 percent of the votes, said he was unsure if he would wage a primary, but would make an announcement one way or the other on Monday.<\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

“Regardless of what happened today, the voters are looking for change in their party,” he said. “The state is 25 percent people of color. The convention is not.”<\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Jenna Carlesso Jerry Farrell Jr., the state’s consumer protection commissioner, is the Republicans’ choice for the next secretary of the state.   Farrell defeated Corey Brinson, a lawyer from Bloomfield and the Republicans’ only African-American candidate, to seize the convention endorsement today. Democrat Susan Bysiewicz is vacating the seat.   Farrell, 42, of Wallingford, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4003,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575867","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\/4003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}