Labor Looks to Six Series D’Agostino in Race for AG.

Labor is making its move in the Democratic contest for attorney general. The public employee-dominated movement is promoting Michael “Six Series” D’Agostino in the crowded race. The fast-driving German luxury ragtop driver as champion of working men and women features some challenging optics. The state representative can be seen speeding between home in Hamden, his Hartford law office and the State Capitol in the expensive BMW convertible (starting price: $86,700) with the legislative license plate. Man in a hurry, indeed.

Labor is cool on Stamford legislator William Tong and will not forget former prosecutor Christopher Mattei for dismantling former Speaker the House Christopher Donovan’s 2012 congressional campaign. That investigation nabbed some Donovan staffers and straw donors but failed to indict Donovan. The labor favorite’s campaign never recovered.

Corporate lawyer D’Agostino was a noisy champion of the ruinous deal worked out between Governor Dannel P. Malloy and state labor unions last year. The extension of benefits runs to 2027 and will prove a high hurdle to the next governor’s ability to restore the conditions that begin to allow the state’s economy to flourish.