Brian K. Hill is a military veteran who's served around the globe, an attorney with a law degree from Howard University and an independent write-in candidate for U.S. Senate.
He says he's running because he's concerned about the direction of the country. "There's too much blind partisanship in Washington,'' Hill said during a brief interview this morning.
Hill defines himself as a moderate. He is an unaffiliated voter who finds something to admire in both Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.
He's conservative on fiscal matters, saying he believes the federal government needs to reign in spending. "The amount of waste in government is obscene,'' said Hill, who is 40 and lives in Windsor.
He doesn't have the big warchests of his major party rivals, Linda McMahon and Richard Blumenthal. Yet he is ready to take them on.
In a tv ad debuting today, Hill criticizes both McMahon and Blumenthal. "Same circus, different clowns,'' is the ad's tagline, displayed over photographs of McMahon and Blumenthal.