Former Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy and Greenwich cable TV entrepreneur Ned Lamont still had not talked as of Sunday morning regarding their upcoming primary contest.
One of the questions that Malloy was asked Saturday after winning the Democratic Party's gubernatorial convention nomination at the Expo Center in Hartford was if he had talked to Lamont yet. He had not.
Within minutes of his acceptance speech, Malloy was sharply criticizing Lamont regarding his views on campaign finance reform as Malloy is accepting public financing in the race and Lamont is not. Malloy also criticized Lamont on paid sick leave - an issue that Malloy supports that failed again this year to be approved by the state legislature. The issue did not get a vote in either the House or the Senate, which are both controlled by the Democrats with veto-proof majorities.
On a television program on Sunday morning on Channel 3 at the studios in Rocky Hill, Malloy was asked again if he had spoken yet to Lamont.
"I think he left the hall while I was speaking,'' Malloy responded.
As reported by The Hartford Courant on Saturday and Sunday, Lamont was actually speaking to a group of reporters as Malloy was making his acceptance speech. Lamont had walked to the press area near the back of the hall, diverting the attention of many reporters as Malloy was still speaking on stage.
Lamont remained in the hall throughout the balloting in the lieutenant governor's race between his running mate, Simsbury First Selectman Mary Glassman, and Malloy's running mate, state Comptroller Nancy Wyman. Wyman defeated Glassman with almost exactly the same number of votes that Malloy surpassed Lamont - by more than a 2 to 1 ratio.