The Greenwich Time Missed This News Flash......Conn. governor decides not to seek another term
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP)
Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell says she will not seek re-election next year.
She made the announcement in a news conference Monday at the statehouse in Hartford.
Rell has been governor since 2004, when John Rowland resigned in a corruption probe. In 2006 voters made her the first Republican woman elected to the post.
State budget problems have driven her job approval.
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By Ken Dixon
CT POST STAFF WRITER
Posted: 11/09/2009 08:51:04 PM EST
HARTFORD Â tearful Gov. M. Jodi Rell abruptly announced Monday she will not run for re-election, bringing to an end a 25-year political career that saw her rise from an obscure small-town politician to a figure credited with restoring faith in a scandal-scarred office.
In a stunning announcement during a hastily called news conference in her office, Rell said.....
.....her predecessor and former running mate John G. Rowland, resigned under the shadow of an impeachment investigation in July 2004. He eventually pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges.
Rell served 10 years in the state House of Representatives, representing her hometown of Brookfield, before becoming Rowland's running mate in 1994. For nine-and-a-half years, she ......
....."I met today with our budget chief and our sales-tax revenue continues to decline," Rell said during a brief question-and-answer period in her Capitol office after her announcement. "That's why I need to focus, right now, my attention on getting our budget in balance and dealing with the Legislature." Rell said that she's sure Republicans can hold the Governor's Residence after she retires. Right after her news conference, Lt. Gov. Michael Fedele, of Stamford, told reporters in the hall outside Rell's office that he expects to be a candidate and anticipates Rell's support.
"This is something that we've all been expecting," Fedele said.....
.....On the Democratic side, James A. Amann of Milford, former speaker of the House, is the only officially announced candidate for the party's gubernatorial nomination. But several Democrats have filed exploratory committees: Stamford Mayor Dannel P. Malloy; Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz; Ridgefield First Selectman Rudolph P. Marconi; state Sen. Gary LeBeau of East Hartford; and Ned Lamont, who won the 2006 Democratic primary against U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman.
On the Republican side, House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, is exploring a candidacy.....
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CT-Gov: Rell Won't Run Again
Washington Post - 3 hours ago
Jodi Rell (R) won't run for re-election in 2010. Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for 20th Century Fox Connecticut Gov. Jodi Rell (R) has decided ...
Washington Post - 3 hours ago
Jodi Rell (R) won't run for re-election in 2010. Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for 20th Century Fox Connecticut Gov. Jodi Rell (R) has decided ...
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