Trooper Who Made Middlefield Campaigning-While-Black Stop of Republican Candidate’s Volunteered as Bysiewicz Driver.

State Trooper Larry Morello made the ugly stop of Republican state representative candidate Ernestine Holloway’s volunteers in Middlefield last week. The Meriden Record-Journal first reported the story Wednesday but did not include the identity of the politically active trooper. The Courant also has more.

Morello, the resident state trooper in nearby Durham, has been a busy volunteer for Susan Bysiewicz, a Middletown resident making her ninth bid for statewide office as the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor. Morello, Daily Ructions can report, has not been discreet about his connection to Bysiewicz.

A van of nine Holloway volunteers was canvassing a Middlefield neighborhood when they were stopped by Morello. He asked them to summon Holloway, who was campaigning in the same neighborhood, to the scene, according to the Record-Journal. A witness has told others that it was a traumatic encounter with the physically imposing Morello.

Bysiewicz in a statement to Daily Ructions wrote through her spokesman, “The reports on this incident are deeply disturbing to me. As the former Secretary of the State, I believe in fair and open elections, and I have zero tolerance for any group or person who would hinder our democratic process. The officer involved in this situation was an occasional volunteer driver for me. As soon as the details were shared with me, we severed ties.”