Jessie Stratton Redux? AFL-CIO Scrambles to Save Aresimowicz.

Trouble in Berlin, according to a union document provided to Daily Ructions. Union troops spent valuable GOTV time last week on House Majority Leader Joseph Aresimowicz’s re-election campaign. Re-election should be a walk for Aresimowicz, who is expected to become speaker if Democrats retain their majority. That was before Republican Christopher Morelli, who was 18 years old when the campaign began, mounted a relentless door-to-door campaign for the suburban seat.

Aresimowicz is the House face of Democratic Governor Dannel P. Malloy’s unpopular policies. An Aresimowicz defeat would call to mind the upset Kevin Witkos, now a state senator, scored when he defeated the Duchess of York, speaker aspirant Jessie Stratton, in their 2002 contest.

Volunteering to help Aresimowicz and others seen to be in close races could get a union foot soldier a cash prize:

A Morelli Win would send a powerful message to state Democrats and Republican House leader Themis Klarides, a close Aresimowicz associate.