Heather Bond Somers Strikes a Nerve: Walker =Weicker. Primary Voters, You’ve Been Warned.
Full marks to Republican lieutenant governor hopeful Heather Bond Somers raising rival David Walker’s ties to former governor Lowell P. Weicker in the Republican-bashing industry that have been filling many of Weicker’s public pronouncements since he lost his U.S. Senate seat in 1988.
Read about Walker and Weicker in this 2011 Connecticut Post account of a “summit on fiscal accountability.” The event featured Weicker and U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman.
Here are two excerpts of note:
“Like the event’s two headliners, Walker is also a party cast-off. He left the GOP to become an independent 14 years ago.” (That would have been 1997, an odd year to decide to leave the GOP.)
“Weicker delivered a blistering commentary on the state of Connecticut Republican Party at the event, calling the party a ‘non-entity’. ‘The Connecticut Republican Party mirrors itself after the national Republican Party. Forget it. It doesn’t sell in Connecticut,’ Weicker, the former first selectman of Greenwich, said in an interview.”
Republicans pick their nominees in an August 12th primary.