Betsy McCaughey in April: Not Running for Senate.

The Connecticut Post suggests that prolific commentator and former New York Lieutenant Governor Betsy McCaughey may be interested in running for the U.S. Senate in 2016 against incumbent Democrat Richard Blumenthal. McCaughey told Daily Ructions in an April 17th email, “The answer to your question about my running for Senate is no. My focus is on defeating Obamacare.”

McCaughey spoke about healthcare policy to a gathering of Republican presidential hopefuls and party activists in New Hampshire on April 18th. For a taste of McCaughey’s vivid prose, read this piece she wrote about the abuse and ill-effects of solitary confinement in prisons.

Kevin Lembo-Frey was one of McCaughey’s aides around the time she switched her party affiliation from Republican to Democrat during her term as lieutenant governor and launched a bid for governor as a Democrat and then a Liberal. He’s now known as Kevin Lembo (she was then Betsy McCaughey Ross) and is in his second term as Connecticut’s comptroller. Lembo and his people are still bewildered by his closer than expected race last November with Ellington Republican Sharon McLaughlin. Or maybe it’s the lingering effect of the 1998 Buffalo plane crash that Lembo and McCaughey survived.