Doing business at the lucrative intersection of state government and politics. Lamont campaign pays $345k for consulting services to state vaccine outreach contractor.

Governor Ned Lamont is putting the favors he’s done and contacts he made in office to use for his re-election campaign. Ned for CT, the governor’s self-financed campaign committee, paid Grossman Solutions, LLC, $345,965.85 on September 12th for general campaign consulting.

At the end of July, state Democrats notified party organizations that “Grossman Solutions is seeking a team to support the voter outreach and Canvass in support of Democratic Governor Ned Lamont in Connecticut in Fairfield, New Haven and Hartford counties. The campaign will reach residents through paid full-time canvassing and will expand to include additional canvassers for GOTV. The campaign will start immediately and will last through November 2022. Pay is competitive, and benefits include a health insurance stipend.”

Last year, according to Grossman Solutions’s website, “…CT DPH hired Grossman Solutions to design and execute Get Vaccinated CT, a data-driven, door-to-door campaign that informs residents in vulnerable communities about the vaccine, debunks common misconceptions, and helps people get their shot.”

According to the SEEC online record of campaign disbursements, Grossman Solutions has been a minor player in Democratic state campaigns. The pandemic has indeed changed everything. Excluding advertising, Grossman Solutions has received one of the largest single payments from the Lamont re-election campaign. Lamont’s September 30th campaign finance report discloses the governor had spent more than $14 million on his fourth bid for statewide office and had $110,000 in cash on hand. Another hefty infusion of cash for the final five weeks of the campaign is likely to appear in the final report before November 8th and the post-election report.

Published October 24, 2022.