Kevin Lembo needs a few more dollars to qualify for public financing. The race for comptroller is the only one that features a Democratic primary candidate, Mike Jarjura, who is wholly objectionable. Many would say that the fact that he is mayor of Waterbury is a sufficient disqualification for any post, anywhere. But if we get beyond our prejudices, as well founded as they might be, consider that Jarjura is the guy who gave John Rowland a do nothing job for the City of Waterbury, and Rowland is, of course, actively campaigning against Lembo in league with his ultra right gay baiting friends at the Family Institute, a Connecticut based group that would like to establish religion, and a bizarre one at that, here in the very secular state of Connecticut. It would be profoundly troubling if this throwback candidate should win the primary, and force our other candidates to ignore the stench he would bring to the room. For myself, his candidacy would cause me to choose my Lieberman (prior to 2006) option: don’t vote for anyone. New Haven should be ashamed of itself for swapping votes with Waterbury to ease Jarjura’s path to the primary. Some deals are just indefensible, and that was one.
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