Lesser Makes a Move. Senate Dems Quietly Rejoice.

State Senator Matt Lesser formed an exploratory committee Monday to seek statewide office. The Middletown Democrat has his eye on his party’s nomination for secretary of the state. A bid for comptroller might also become possible if three-term incumbent Kevin Lembo does not seek re-election.

Lesser served in the state House before winning his Senate seat in 2018. That spot opened when popular incumber Paul Doyle ran for attorney general. Lesser’s political life expanded when he quit Wesleyan University, where he’d been active in student politics, to win the first of five two-year terms in the House.

Members of the opera company known as the Senate Democrats are thought to be pleased indeed with Lesser’s bid for higher office.