This is the most important of all the Connecticut special elections. Conservatives are glacially increasing their numbers, particularly in the State Senate. Total number of senators is 36. Conservatives now hold a seat in Enfield area (near Springfield, MA), Danbury (on the western edge of CT), Southington (SE of Waterbury), at least one Waterbury seat and both are possible), one NE of New Haven (including North Haven, Wallingford, part of Hamden), this very difficult Meriden (and Cheshire, Middletown, Middlefield) seat. Republicans of probably more liberal leanings are likely holding Greenwich seat and Westport/Fairfield seat. The seat covering Stratford and Shelton is conservative and usually Republican. There is a seat in the Northwest corner of the state that is almost always Republican (fiscally conservative and often socially middle to liberal). That makes 9 or 10 (depending on the second Waterbury seat) but 19 are necessary to a majority. Demonrat senators are probably hopeless on votes that matter. A key to improving the GOP senate numbers is stressing social conservatism in areas like New London, Norwich, Bristol, New Britain, and recapturing traditionally Republican seats in a district NW of Hartford including Simsbury and Farmington and a shoreline seat East of New Haven (Branford, Guilford, North Branford, etc.) and the thoroughly middle class seat long held by the retired (but still only 53 year-old) Tom Scott in Milford (now apparently held by a Maoist feminazi). More remote possibilities include the Manchester seat (SE of Hartford), a seat in the Willimantic area (extreme NE corner). Getting beyond these requires ideological revolution at the grass roots and extreme organization. There is now enough of a cadre in the State Senate to lead the charge and the three guys photoed in #1 above are the three to do it.
Governor Malloy is the first Demonrat governor elected since 1984 (that was Bill O'Neill). Since then CT has elected as governor an ideological criminal in Lowell Weicker, a convicted criminal in John Jailbird Rowland, and several terms of Mother Rell.
Malloy is a smidgeon less leftist than Maryland's O'Malley or Jerry Brown but he thinks that he can continue tax increases as usual and get away with it. He is left of Andrew Cuomo on fiscal matters and wants to abolish the death penalty at a time when one of two home invasion killers/rapists of a mother and two teenaged daughters in a nice suburban town of Cheshire has been convicted and sentenced to death and the other is about to be tried. Cheshire is in Suzio's district.
Suzio is the former president of the Pro-Life Council of Connecticut. The only issue on which he might be liberal would be the death penalty but I don't think so and it would be hard since the notorious rape murders occurred in the district.
My knowledge of the geography of the districts is a bit dated since I have not been in CT since before the 2001 redistricting and I welcome correction of the description of districts above and any additional districts or senators I should have named.
With Suzio’s win, the GOP holds 14 out of 36 seats. Of the other 22 held by the Dems, 7 won by less than 10% (Steve Cassano in Dist. 4 - Bolton, Glastonbury, Manchester and Marlborough, who won by just 73 votes); (Theresa Gerratana in Dist #6 - New Britain, Berlin and Farmington); (Edward Meyer in Dist #12 - Branford, Durham, Guilford, Killingworth, Madison, North Branford, a GOP seat until 2005); (Edith Prague in Dist #19 - part of Montville; Andover, Bozrah, Columbia, Franklin, Hebron, Lebanon, Ledyard, Lisbon, Norwich and Sprague); (Anthony J. Musto in Dist #22 - Bridgeport, Monroe, and Trumbull, a seat we held as recently as 2008-09); (Carlo Leone in Dist #27 - parts of Darien and Stamford) & (Eileen Daily in Dist #33 - Chester, Clinton, Colchester, Deep River, East Haddam, East Hampton, Essex, Haddam, Lyme, Old Saybrook, Portland and Westbrook).
If the GOP takes all of those with a concerted effort, that would be a 21R-15D majority. They last won a majority in 1995-97.