Start Spreading the News. Blanchard Departs Lamont for New York.

Ned Lamont loyalist Rob Blanchard is leaving the governor’s office for a new life in New York. The heart will not be denied. The Bucks County native and Syracuse graduate has been the Greenwich aristocrat’s faithful companion since joining his 2018 campaign.

Blanchard served on Middletown’s Democratic town council and did an eventful turn as chair of its fractious town committee. He will be applying his skill in the dark arts of communications on the big stage.

The 33 year old also spent time working with Ted Kennedy while he considered a 2018 run for governor.

Blanchard outlasted a considerable number of original hires in Lamont’s office, a place that is more difficult to work in than it appears from the outside.