Drew Raises $105k in Bid for Governor. Celebrates With Swipe at Malloy.

“For decades, government has focused mostly on helping those at the very top, and people in the middle are being left behind. That has to change,” Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Dan Drew declared in a pointed criticism of incumbent Democrat Dannel P. Malloy. Drew included the aggressive attack on Malloy in the Middletown mayor’s announcement that he raised $105,627 from 1,030 donors in his campaign’s first fundraising quarter.

Drew is looking for a lane in the crowded leftwing of his party.

Malloy has not announced if he will seek a third term. Private polling shows the unpopular Democrat with a strongly approve rating in the single digits not far from the margin of error. Malloy’s strongly unfavorable number is many times higher than that, continuing to cause anxiety among Democrats who do not want to be saddled with the surly governor at the top of their ticket next year.