Depends what your definition of “older” is.

David Hogg, a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, brings his campaign to clear out senior, older legislators from Congress to New Haven on April 25th. This may make some Connecticut Democrats uneasy, but two added their names to the event host committee.

Hogg, according to a Tuesday New York Times story, “said his party must squelch a pervasive ‘culture of seniority politics’ that has allowed older and less effective lawmakers to continue to hold office at a moment of crisis.” Hogg is president of Leaders We Deserve, an organization that hopes to spend $20 million ousting older Democrats. Hogg will not support challenges to every alter kocker among House Democrats. He has generously given his blessing to 85 year old former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and 80 year old Representative Jan Schakowsky of Illinois.

New Haven’s own Rosa DeLauro is on the event host committee. In her 34th year in the House, DeLauro turned 82 years old in March. John Larson will celebrate his 77th birthday this summer. Richard Blumenthal, serving his third term in the Senate, will mark his 80th birthday in February, the oldest person to serve Connecticut in the Senate.

Perhaps Hogg, who believes all drugs should be legal and no one should have more than $1 billion, will use the April 25th event to give DeLauro and Larson his blessing to continue to seek to serve the people who elect them to office. Or maybe he will collect names of potential Leaders We Deserve donors and weaponize them in Connecticut.

Leaders Will Deserve, The Times reports, looks for candidates for Congress who are 35 years old or young and 30 or younger for state legislative offices.

Published April 16, 2025.