Scott Bates
Shelly Sindland has mentioned the possibility of the largely unknown Scott Bates running in next year’s Democratic primary:
While Bates may not be a household name in Connecticut, he has an impressive resume. He has been to Iraq too many times to count—working on keeping weapons away from terrorists and working with local politicians there to promote democracy in Qatar and Bahrain.
He also has an impressive political background. Besides being the elected Police Commissioner for his hometown of Stonington, Bates was the youngest Secretary of State in the nation history when he held that office in Virginia at the age of 26.
He also has worked for Joe Lieberman, Doug Wilder–the first elected black Governor, a Congressman from Illinois and for a time, worked as a Democratic Caucus leader at the Virginia State Capitol.
I don’t know enough about him to have a sense of whether he’d be good or not, but from the way he describes himself, it sounds to me like a bit of bad news for Malloy — at least within whatever built-in constituency exists among Democratic primary voters for a youngish, white, male, just-right-of-liberal technocrat with a long resume of government service across state lines.
He’ll be on TV on Sunday morning — the full slate of Connecticut talking heads can be seen over at The Laurel.