Bob Stefanowski

You could see why he was one of my favorite former colleagues up in the legislature.

He's also a former lieutenant gubernatorial candidate back when Stefanowski ran, uh, the first time.

Uh, let's welcome back to the show Joe Markley.

Joe, good morning.

Like, you feel me? You feel where he was at? This is probably not smart, but here's just, and I'm bulletproof in this state.

At the time, I swear he was probably, who am I going to run against? Stefanowski again? He wasn't sweating this election.

This was June 2025.

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Well, honestly, that's not the issue here.

So what are you trying to attempt? Really, what are you trying to attempt? You're trying to make the governor look like somebody who doesn't care? Because Bob Stefanowski tried that.

Didn't pay off well for him.

Look, you're down in the polls.

You had really high inflation.

So the Republicans really saw an opportunity to pick up wins in, you know, not only gubernatorial races, but also congressional races, and so they started pumping money into, you know, races like Connecticut, where apparently they, they believed, uh, Bob Stefanowski and his second challenge to Lamont had a, had a good chance.

And, um, you know, and that, that was interesting too, because both Stefanowski and Lamont were, you know, very wealthy men who were basically self-funding their campaigns.

But still, millions got poured into the Connecticut race.

But I'll give one final thing, you know, going back, and we've kept an eye on Connecticut politics for the entirety of that Sacred Heart poll.

But when I think back to one of the previous campaigns, as we talk about different audiences and whatnot, It was the Stefanowski and Grebel.

I forget the year, but when Oz was in it, where historically it is very much as it is this year with Fazio and Lamont, it's a Republican versus a Democrat, right? Whereas in that race, you had Oz, who is very well respected.

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