The Brawl for Governor. Will Foley Say It? “I’m Not the One Whose House Police Raided Twice in Drugs and Guns Investigations.”

Democrat Dannel Malloy Thursday night unleashed a fuselage of abuse that seemed outside the boundaries of what the public expects from a governor. This is what surrogates do. As the debate sponsored by The Hartford Courant and FOX CT neared its end, Malloy went into his aria of accusations. He reminded the audience of a payment Foley made to the state’s elections board to resolve a complaint and tossed in Foley’s early 1980s encounter with Long Island police over an ugly car-ramming incident.

As a coda, Malloy added after the debate in comments to the press that he wasn’t the one who’d been in a car chase with his wife. That was a reference to a dispute Foley and his first wife had over their child that spilled into the streets of Greenwich.

Foley would like a truce. This reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of his opponent. Malloy and his inner circle are not pacifists. They understand only the tactics they use. No one will ever mistake Malloy for Gandhi. His surly circle is worse.

Will Foley or his surrogates venture into the Dannel Malloy/Catherine Lambert no-go zone? Will they produce some grainy photos, unflattering headlines, ominous music and a sad but knowing narrator to tell the tale of two police raids on the Malloy-Lambert home in a wealthy section of Stamford? Will they mention the curious disposition of the cases?

Would Malloy use two police raids against Foley if they had happened at the Greenwich businessman’s house? You know the answer to that.