Fifth, Sixth or Seventh Time the Charm? Bysiewicz Will Explore Statewide and Legislative Campaigns.

How can we say goodbye if you refuse to go away? Perennial candidate and former secretary of the state Susan Byciewicz will form a broad exploratory committee for statewide and legislative offices, Daily Ructions has learned.

You may remember Bysiewicz but have lost track of the chronic candidates remarkable history of campaigns. She briefly hovered around the 2006 contest for the Democratic nomination for governor. In 2010 she started running for governor and switched to the race for attorney general when incumbent Richard Blumenthal ran for the U.S. Senate when unpopular incumbent Christopher Dodd abandoned his bid for a sixth term. Bysiewicz suffered a spectacular defeat when the state’s highest court ruled she did not meet the statutory qualifications for attorney general.

In 2012, Christopher Murphy, who was serving his third term in the U.S. House of Representatives, trounced Bysiewicz in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate seat that had been held for four terms by Joseph Lieberman. Two years later, Bysiewicz considered moving to Bristol to challenge Republican Henri Martin in the 31st Senatorial District.

Bysiewicz was active in Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign as a fundraiser, though she was not given a delegate spot to the Democratic National Convention.

Monday is the first business day of the second campaign financing reporting quarter of the year. Expect the brisk pace candidates filing committees to continue.