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http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=33808

4 points. hard to imagine a close race in that district.

So this Scott guy was a State Senator, and ran for Governor in ‘94?

Our campaigns is confused because a same name rat ran against him for State Senate in 1988. They have the ‘88 rat running against De Lauro in 1990 and the State Senator running in 1992 (and getting crushed). I assume this is an error.

Tom Scott was the State Senator from the then competitive 14th District along the Long Island Sound shoreline and slightly inland west of New Haven (typically Milford, part of westernmost West Haven, Orange, Woodbridge, Derby). That district with some redistricting changes is now held by a woman named Schlossberg, a leftist Demonrat. Tom was elected in 1980 and served until the early days of 1991 when his last term expired. He had run against Rosa (My other car is a broom) DeLauro in 1990 and lost narrowly. The Demonrats got their act together and took Tom more seriously in 1992 and DeLauro won decisively as she has ever since.

In that district, in 1976, John Pucciano ran a close race against Robert Giaimo (first elected in 1958) in the 3rd District. When Giaimo retired in 1980, liberal Republican State Senator Larry DeNardis was elected as the only GOP Congressman since 1958, defeating then State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Lieberman who, was eventually elected to four terms in the U.s. Senate. DeNardis was defeated by Bruce Morrison in 1982 after a single term.

Tom Scott ran for governor as an independent candidate in 1994. Although he garnered some serious labor union support, (Food and Service Workers, Electrical Workers and others) and it took less than a week to petition him onto the ballot, Tom got about 15% of the vote. The winner was Republican John Rowland who was recently convicted of his second set of federal corruption charges, having been forced out as governor by a prison sentence during his third term.

"Our campaigns" is totally confused. However, they have Tom Scott being crushed by DeLauro (as he was) in 1992. They omitted the much closer 1990 race. DeLauro's predecessor was Democrat Congressman Bruce Morrison who ran for governor in 1990, lost, and never ran for office again. He had been Executive Director of New Haven Legal Assistance Association before being elected to Congress.