Democrats Ned Lamont and Dannel Malloy have been locked in a bitter battle that has become increasingly nasty in the final week before the upcoming primary on August 10.
One of Malloy's commercials charges that Lamont reduced his workforce while taking an annual salary of $500,000. The charge is repeated in red on the screen. Lamont's campaign, though, says that he has not taken a salary from his cable company for the past five years. Since the company is private, that point had never been disclosed.
The clash has become one of the biggest issues of the campaign as the commercial has been repeated on a regular basis on local television stations, particularly on newscasts.
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Lamont says the charges are the same ones that were made against his cable company during the 2006 campaign by Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman.
At the time, then-campaign chairman George Jepsen, said Lieberman's commercials were flat-out wrong.
"They don't want to talk about how their new ads get their facts dead wrong and slander Ned Lamont's record as a job-creating businessman in Connecticut,'' Jepsen said at the time.