Salvatore Mounted Late Bid for AG at 2010 Democratic Convention.

The one on the right is going to prison.

What is it about the attorney general’s office that attracts a menagerie of ambitious oddballs? Convicted fraudster and Democratic stalwart Genevieve Salvatore concocted a last minute bid to challenge George Jepsen for the party’s 2010 nomination.

The Milford Democrat has been a generous supported of chronic candidate Susan Bysiewicz. Bysiewicz sued herself in 2010 when questions were raised about whether she met the statutory qualification to serve as the state’s chief civil law officer. On May 17th, a few days before the nominating convention, the state’s highest court knocked the three-term secretary of the state and two time gubernatorial hopeful out of the race for attorney general.  Salvatore, who had lost a 2009 race for mayor of Milford, hatched a scheme to challenge Jepsen. She stumbled at the starting gate. Some suspect Salvatore enjoyed the encouragement of Bysiewicz in the gambit.

In the 2012 election cycle, Salvatore, who was convicted this year of participating in a $2.49 million real estate scam, donated $1,000 to Bysiewicz’s failed U.S. Senate campaign, $800 to U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro, and $250 to U.S. Representative John Larson.

Salvatore holds severe views on humor that offends certain sensibilities, as she told Mr. Colin McEnroe in a 2010 comment on his Courant blog.

She begins her two year sentence on July 11th.