HARTFORD – While many campaigns were taking a breather Monday from the long hours of the political party conventions, Democrat Ned Lamont came to the capital city to talk about job creation with a group of young professionals.<\/p>\n
About a dozen attendees gathered around long tables to kick around ideas about how to improve Connecticut’s image among some that it is merely a stopping point between New York and Boston. The group gathered at the University of Hartford, which is about halfway between Albany and Providence.<\/p>\n
“All my friends are headed to D.C., New York or San Francisco,” said Meg Evans, a 22-year-old senior at Yale University who has lived in Connecticut virtually her whole life. “That’s a big pull.”<\/p>\n
Many of her friends, she said, actually live in Manhattan and make the reverse commute to work in Stamford.<\/p>\n
“If you go to those train stations in Fairfield County, there are as many people coming in as going out,” Lamont responded. <\/p>\n
One woman caught Lamont’s attention when she said she left the famed Research Triangle Park in North Carolina and is now teaching political science at the University of Connecticut. She said that Connecticut would be a better state if there was a light rail system to get from UConn to New Haven.<\/p>\n
Others in the roundtable discussed the long-stalled New Britain-to-Hartford busway, although some said that will not make much difference in the quality of life in either of those cities.<\/p>\n
“The heck with the Research Triangle,” Lamont told the group. “You want to be in New Britain. … Hartford, New Haven and Bridgeport were three of the richest cities in the world a few generations ago, and they can be again.”<\/p>\n
Lamont will be facing former Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy in the Democratic primary on August 10. On the same day, Republicans Tom Foley of Greenwich, Mike Fedele of Stamford, and Oz Griebel of Simsbury will be battling in the GOP primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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