Be Afraid: Freeloader Farriker Raising Money for Blankley.

Frank Farriker, who earlier this year, he paid $11, 318 to settle an embarrassing complaint by the Office of State Ethics over dinging taxpayers for cable, cellphone and internet service, is holding a fundraiser for exploring Democratic John Blankley. Farriker, a Greenwich Democrat, paid $6,318 in reimbursements and a $5,000 fine. Blankley is exploring a race for Connecticut treasurer.

Blankley is one of the candidate in the Vinci Group’s thin stable of campaigns. A Greenwich Democrat who came to the United States from Britain in the early 1980s, Blankley ran a losing race against popular state Senator Scott Frantz last year.