Tong is a contender–for worst video of the new year.

Must they torture us so soon after the promise of a new year dawned?

Lieutenant Governor Susan Bysiewicz posted battling cringe-inducing videos last week. So did Mayor Erin Stewart. Bysiewicz used a pair of socks as a prop. Stewart used and bleeped the c-word. On Wednesday, Attorney General William Tong joined the competition with what appears to be a monumental waste of state resources. What is the point of these 25 seconds of General Tong, as he prefers to be addressed and poses as an environmentalist, emerging from a gas guzzling, emissions belching SUV?

He climbs the stairs at the Capitol on the opening day of the legislature, mounts the dias to observe Governor Lamont’s address and hopes in two years to be standing in the place the Greenwich aristocrat makes his way through his speech.

The Hall of the House is the site of Tong’s lowest moment. It was there that he gave aid and comfort to anti-semites when he spiked the renomination of a Superior Court judge, Jane Emons, a Jew. Tong was co-chair of the Judiciary Committee (or as some of Emons critics would say, the Jewdiciary.

You will see no reference to Tong’s 2018 act in his video in which a jumped up GMC SUV sets the not-so-subtle tone.

Tong’s pawing-at-the-paddock candidacy continues today. His strange video will do nothing to clear the field.

Published January 9, 2025.