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Another Jepsen fan

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In my Oct. 16 post, I asserted that Connecticut Attorney General George C. Jepsen’s approach to his office is thankfully different from that of his predecessor, Richard “The Camera Man” Blumenthal, now a U.S. senator. Mr. Jepsen’s style is low-key and he does not use the Blumenthal tactic of pursuing frivolous action to generate some quick publicity.

Another fan of Mr. Jepsen’s is Terry Cowgill of CT News Junkie. In an Oct. 25 column, Mr. Cowgill praised the attorney general for being the anti-publicity hound and trying to take an apolitical course.

“After enduring 20 years of watching the peripatetic Richard Blumenthal campaign for higher office, hold interminable press conferences and chase television cameras all over the state, how refreshing it is to see an AG who prefers to work behind the scenes and use the law as a guide instead of reading public opinion polls and suing everyone in sight,” he wrote. Mr. Cowgill argued Mr. Jepsen’s conduct has won him a lot of support from the business community, which is hurting for friends in Connecticut government.

Mr. Cowgill also got in a dig at former Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz, Mr. Jepsen’s opponent for the 2010 Democratic AG nomination until deemed unqualified for the post by the state Supreme Court. He contended that if Ms. Bysiewicz had defeated Mr. Jepsen and then prevailed in the general election, she “would have been nothing more than Blumenthal in a skirt.” Given that Ms. Bysiewicz, like Sen. Blumenthal, was shamefully ambitious, I tend to agree with Mr. Cowgill on this one.

Read this excellent piece here.

Given the embarrassing spectacle Sen. Blumenthal made (and continues to make) of himself, Mr. Jepsen’s course-change couldn’t be any more welcome.


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