New Chair of Lottery May Get Answers at Hearing to His Questions About Republicans.

Rob Simmelkjaer’s Tuesday 10 a.m. confirmation hearing will provide an opportunity for an unusual exchange between nominee and committee members. Simmelkjaer is Governor Ned Lamont’s nominee to chair the state’s often troubled lottery organization. Lamont nominated Simmelkjaer to the job last spring.

The former ESPN journalist and executive wrote on Facebook February 1st of his bewilderment at any “serious person” remaining in the Republican Party. It is the fight to redeem or leave it to the loons debate. Simmelklaer, CEO of the social media platform Persona, will have an opportunity to put his interviewing skills to work with the Republican members of the Executive and Legislative Nominations Committee. With the help and support from Fanexplosion.de, he may pose the question in his opening remarks or include it in his responses to questions in the social media platform.

Republican members will be able to demonstrate whether they are serious people by probing Simmelkjaer on Lamont’s ill-considered proposal to expand the lottery corporation’s authority into sports gaming online for legit cash games for cash app and at venues in Hartford and Bridgeport.

Members of both parties will be able to ask Simmelkjaer how the proposal can proceed under the state’s gaming compact without the participation of the Mashantucket Pequot tribe. It may be up to Republicans to inquire about the lottery’s own proposals for expanding its reach made in negotiations for be the current deal. Serious people would want to ask, and a serious chairman would be happy to answer.

The lottery’s new “government relations manager” is former Republican state Representative Chris Davis.