Temperature Rising: Dita Bhargava Scores Shawn Wooden on Guns and Losing Investment.

Dita Bhargava has found a wide space on guns between herself and primary rival Shawn Wooden. The Greenwich Democrat has found a New Jersey public pension fund investment to make her closing argument five days before Democrats pick their nominee for state treasurer.

In an email titled “We need to talk about Shawn,” Bhargava launches a stinging attack on Wooden’s two featured calling cards in this campaign: his experience advising investment funds and opposition to investing public funds in gun manufacturers. That’s now, not before. Bhargava highlights a $400 million losing bet the New Jersey State Public Pension Fund made with BlackRock Credit Investors. Wooden and his firm, according to Bhargava, “collected millions in fees” on the losing deal. She’s not done yet. BlackRock, Bhargava writes, “is among the biggest shareholders of gun manufacturers.” This is not the sort of record Democratic primary voters like to see in party leader.

Expect to hear more about this in these fraught closing days of the campaign.