Can Fat Wallets At The Top Of The Ticket Buy GOP Legislative Gains?
Big spenders, government dissatisfaction could spell trouble for Democrats
Published: May 24, 2010
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Tom Foley and his wife, Leslie Fahrenkopf, react to the announcement that Foley has won the Republican Party endorsement
Photo:Jacqueline Rabe, Connecticut Mirror
When Senate President Pro Tem Donald E. Williams Jr. tried to put the best face on the majority Democrats' work in the 2010 General Assembly session, he took aim at a criticism leveled by Republican gubernatorial contender Tom Foley.
Foley's oft-stated charge that state government is "broke and broken" has been "blown out of the water," Williams said.
But the potential for an election season dominated by well-funded Republican candidates airing frequent campaign ads had GOP strategists feeling giddy this past weekend at the party's state convention.
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