Done: Second Term at DGA Signals No Third Term for Malloy.

With approval ratings hovering just above Francois Hollande’s, Democrat Dannel P. Malloy would need to devote his full efforts to seeking a third term as Connecticut’s governor. He will not. Instead, Malloy will serve a second term as head of the Democratic Governors Association. That will allow the luxury-loving governor to spend a lot of his time away from home and putting the squeeze on special interest donors for other Democrats in the first year of the busy 2017-2018 cycle. Two states, New Jersey and Virginia, elect governors in 2017.

Ambitious Democrats who hope to succeed Malloy, and there are many of them, will be relieved that he’ll not be in the state to serve as a reminder of Democratic failures.