Richard Blumenthal: guns, tobacco, and grandstanding AGs(CN)

overlawyered.com ^ | 8 January, 2010 | Walter Olson

[marktwain]

I was a guest this morning on Ray Dunaway’s show on WTIC 1080 (Hartford) to discuss Democrat Richard Blumenthal’s bid to replace Chris Dodd in the U.S. Senate. I’ve been covering the Connecticut attorney general’s legal record for years here at Overlawyered as well as at my other site, Point of Law. For details on his bullying, legally ill-founded ventures into litigation against gun makers and dealers, check here, here, here, here, etc., while for the aromatic tobacco-fee angles, you can start here and here. For the time he sued his own state client, see this 2002 post (& welcome Instapundit readers).

[marktwain]

Blumenthal may be the one to beat in the Connecticut senate race.

[tommyboy]

Chuck Schumer II

[Zeppo]

Josef Stalin II

[Road Warrior ‘04]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goNw7cu1G3g

[kenmcg]

This jerk is nothing more than an Eliot Spitzer wanna-be with hair!!

[mojo114]

Great links here.

[Montfort]

Or a Sheldon Whitehouse wannabe.

I wonder if he is fabulously rich like Spitzer and Whitehouse.

There seems to be a pattern here, at least with Spitzer and Whitehouse. Ridiculously wealthy man becomes showboat Attorney General "Champion of the People" against evil corporations like the ones that send his trust fund dividend checks every quarter. Champion of the people becomes a household word, and gets elected Senator and helps push the elite controllers' agenda.

[fieldmarshaldj]

More about the likely Dem nominee for Dodd’s seat.

[Clintonfatigued]

He’s got the edge, no doubt, but I don’t think he’s unbeatable. It will take a very skilled campaign to win this.