Dispatches From The Sitting Duck Tavern. Herbst is a Loon.

It’s the only explanation. Trumbull First Selectman Tim Herbst must have been texting from one of his favorite watering holes, The Sitting Duck Tavern (Now in Trumbull!). Maybe it was late at night, maybe not. It has not gone well. Herbst’s nutty feud with beleaguered Democratic Enfield state Representative David Alexander, who seems like a bit of a whiner himself, has taken attention away from Republicans who are on the ballot this fall. Herbst has further revealed himself as an undisciplined loon, given to impulsive outbursts.

The Herbst-Alexander hostilities date to their years as rivals in Trinity College campus politics. (The college must be so proud.) Alexander has had two well-publicized drunk driving arrests while serving the people of Enfield. Herbst thought this would be an appropriate time to even a score and make an intervention. It was not. Herbst’s Clint Eastwood-themed text–featuring, of course, a gun–caused Alexander, who must be a fragile sort, to feel unsafe. Alexander called the Capitol State Police to report his fear. Curiously, he did not call the nearby Enfield police. Someone from the Capitol State called Herbst and told him to knock it off. The rising-star-to-shooting-star says he will cease and desist. Weiner Herbst says it was a mistake. The 2014 Republican candidate for state treasurer meant to send the clip to a different Trinity classmate.

Herbst has mocked Alexander about being unprepared for “the big leagues”. What would he know of such a place?

Herbst, who was re-elected Trumbull’s first selection last November by a tiny 357 vote margin out of more than 11,000 cast, works on a wide spectrum of outrage for criminal conduct. He’s in a twist over Alexander’s drunk driving arrests but has emerged as a supporter of Bridgeport mayor Joseph Ganim, who was sentenced to nine years in prison for public corruption.