Malloy Accomplice Kevin Lembo Jumps Into CT Gov Race, Tries To Distance Himself From Failed Governor

With failed Democrat governor Dan Malloy deciding not to run for a third term, one of the key accomplices to his job-killing agenda, state Comptroller Kevin Lembo, is forming an exploratory committee for the 2018 race in order to continue Dan Malloy’s failed policies. With Malloy’s approval rating below 30 percent and citizens leaving the state en masse to escape his failed economic policies, Lembo is already desperately trying to distance himself from Malloy, asking in his announcement video, “what happened?” and how is Connecticut “struggling so badly?”

Perhaps he should have asked these questions in 2014 when Dan Malloy was running for a second term and he endorsed him. On the trail, Lembo routinely defended Malloy as the Yale Daily News reported in October 2014, saying “We’ve gotta hold on tight:”

“[Lembo’s] pitch was made at the end of his speech, saying that if Democrats “turn the keys over” to Republicans, who have ‘no plan,’ the same thing is going to happen that happened when Republicans were in office years ago: they’re going to dig a ditch and ask Democrats to get them out of it. He completed the metaphor by saying of the key candidates: ‘We’ve gotta hold on tight.’

But even more recently, Lembo has been quick to praise the failed incumbent governor. In a 2016 profile in the Connecticut Post, Lembo “stressed that he and Malloy agree more than they don’t,” saying “there have been some real positive things that have come out of his tenure as governor” and that observers “haven’t a clue on how hard all this is:”

“Lembo stressed that he and Malloy agree more than they don’t… ‘And there have been some real positive things that have come out of his tenure as governor,’ Lembo said. ‘There’s a whole class of political folks who just snark from the sideline and haven’t a clue on how hard all this is.” 

Now that he has to run on the coattails of eight years of Dan Malloy’s failures, Kevin Lembo seems to believe he can fool Connecticut voters into thinking he is different from the governor. But Connecticut citizens have spent eight years watching Kevin Lembo enable and encourage Malloy’s destructive, job-killing agenda and they will not reward him with four years in the governor’s mansion to continue his catastrophic policies.