Isn’t that Hollywood East program just, in the end, a massive subsidy?

Yes. It’s a question, though, of which industries we want to grow and subsidize. Is the film industry that much more worthy of subsides than, say, the dairy farms which were lobbying at the capitol this week? I don’t know.

Susan Bysiewicz – Good delivery and some interesting ideas. I still left with the impression that the reason she would be a good candidate was that she had won a statewide primary and more than one statewide general election and that she was ahead in the Q-poll. I hope she can improve on that in the future.

Bysiewicz won that primary ten years ago. Her more recent race for governor was lackluster at best, and she’s faced token opposition since. I am not convinced by that argument.

Q-Poll right now is about name recognition more than anything. “I’m the best candidate because I’m winning” is Hillary Clinton territory.

Question: What should Democrats do to win in 2010?

Based on Sailor’s recap, I think Crusher gave the best answer. First you shouldn’t be running if your issues don’t generally align with those of the voters. (If your concern is Iraq or sidewalk repairs, you don’t run for Governor.) Second, you prepare your public outreach machine.

For the most part, you’ll never be able to compete with a Chief Executive. Obama has the bully pulpit. Bush had it before him. And Rell has it here in CT. There’s little any opponent can do about that until the MSM focus on the race which will largely happen after the nomination.

Huh? Whose idea of a convincing argument is that? What about taxes? People aren’t leaving Connecticut because there isn’t enough research on stem cells, they are leaving because there are no opportunities because of high taxes and it is too damn expensive to live here. Now the Democrats on the Finance Committee want to tax heating oil. What a great idea! That makes about as much sense as lead life preservers.

Case in point: I went to get a snack on Main Street today and turned the corner to enter this cute little sandwich shop and BAM. They were gone.
It was so sad. The shop was totally deserted. Inside was trashed like they had to leave in a hurry. A sign in the window said “Tag Sale: Everything must Go!” with a February date. They must have been closed for about a month.

I can only speculate but I really don’t think it was the lack of stem cell research that forced my cute little sandwich shop to close. I suspect they weren’t making a profit after taxes.

If the clueless Bysiewicz that has made a mockery of our voting rolls is the best the Democrats have than Mrs. Rell:

“Please raise your right hand and repeat after me…..”

Jim Amann – He is still talking like a legislator, not a candidate for Chief Executive Officer of the State. I suspect that this will change as the campaign wears on but if he doesn’t start presenting himself like a CEO, his candidacy may be short lived.

Nancy Wyman – I think the fact that she has not declared her candidacy or the forming of an exploratory committee restricted her ability to answer the questions with the tone of a CEO. She commented more than once that she was not a candidate and had to watch how she said things. If she does declare I suspect her answers will be crisper and more definitive.

Susan Bysiewicz – Good delivery and some interesting ideas. I still left with the impression that the reason she would be a good candidate was that she had won a statewide primary and more than one statewide general election and that she was ahead in the Q-pole. I hope she can improve on that in the future.

Dan Malloy- The most declarative of the candidates. He talked like a CEO and emphasized his experience in running one of CTs most successful cities. He showed where that experience would carry over to the Governor’s position. I am sure my comments here are also based on having watched Malloy run his last campaign for governor and the thoughtfulness that has gone into his positions on the issues. Although this is a biased report, I believe that if there was a winner this morning, it was Dan Malloy.