Amid the back-and-forth over the lack of debates in the final five weeks of the Democratic campaign, WNPR host John Dankosky notes that a debate between lieutenant governor candidates Nancy Wyman and Mary Glassman is scheduled for July 26.
The Monday morning debate will run from 9 a.m. until 10 a.m. and will feature two of the best-known Democratic candidates in the state. Wyman is serving in her 16th year as state comptroller - one of the longest in state history. Democrat J. Edward Caldwell of Bridgeport served for 16 years and one day before being succeeded by Bill Curry, who served for four years before Wyman took over in 1995.
Glassman is the former chief of staff to the lieutenant governor and is now serving in her second stint as Simsbury's first selectman.
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The campaigns of Ned Lamont and Dannel Malloy have been clashing over the number of debates since Lamont declined to debate in a live, televised contest on Tuesday, July 27 at the Garde Arts Center in New London. Lamont says that they have already appeared in more than 25 joint appearances around the state, including a televised debate on NBC 30, a recent forum at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, and a forum last week in Stamford.
The campaigns are clearly heating up with less than five weeks to go before the August 10 primary. Malloy was out on the north side of the state Capitol on a hot day on Friday morning with a television production crew of about 10 people and their equipment. Malloy has broadcast three TV commercials so far.