A Rowland Enters a Republican Nomination Race.
East Haven Republican Patrick Rowland (no relation to the former Republican governor) is a late entry for the party’s nomination for state comptroller. Rowland, a CPA with a background in tax planning, will face West Hartford Republican May Fay if he proceeds with his quest.
Rowland’s email to Republicans took aim at Democrat Sean Scanlon and his patronage plum job at Tweed-New Haven Airport. He wrote in his announcement, “I can BEAT Sean Scanlon because I have the Tax, Research, Accounting, and Economic Policy background to understand deeply the roles of the office and can debate his flawed record as a legislator and as the Director of the Tweed – specifically, the State’s own INDEPENDENT AUDITORS issued a deficiency report (link below) on the Airport Authority criticizing control and management in areas which he would have similar control at the state level.”
“He also helped break a promise previously negotiated by all the pertinent mayors and legislative representatives much for his own benefit and at great peril to the city, region and the citizens who live near the airport,” Rowland continued, “And as CHAIR of the Finance, Revenue and Bonding – he OWNS the fiscal calamity we are suffering from.”
Scanlon is, for reasons that highlight the sometimes irrational nature of politics, the Democrats’ presumptive nominee for comptroller. The Guilford Democrat continues his long ride on the party’s hackerama.
Rowland said Wednesday afternoon that he will run as a petitioning candidate in the general election if he is unable to win 15% of the delegates at the Republican state convention. He criticized Fay for highlighting on her campaign website her opposition to imposing tolls on Connecticut’s working families.
Rowland will be introducing himself to delegates Friday. Fay may, however, have gotten a snootful of the voluble Rowland when he offered to “collaborate” with the West Hartford town council member if she’d make way for him to snag the party’s nomination.
Published May 4, 2022.