In his new 30-second TV campaign ad, Lamont, a Greenwich telecommunications giant, is shown driving a modest car -- part of a $40,000 ad buy in the Hartford television market for the endorsed Democrat for governor.
“So, I turned 64 this year. Kind of liberating actually,” Lamont says while driving. “I’m not running for governor as a stepping stone. Not thinking about re-election. Not going to take a salary and I don’t need a government car. This one is going to do just fine.”
Lamont is shown driving a Chevrolet Equinox in his first TV campaign ad.
The annual salary for Connecticut governor — a job now held by Dannel P. Malloy, who defeated Lamont in the 2010 Democratic primary — is $150,000.
Malloy has a state police security detail, which handles the driving for the governor in a state SUV.
Lamont and Ganim, as featured in this Daily Voice article, will face each other for the first time in a primary debate Thursday night, July 19 at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven.
In Lamont’s 2006 U.S. Senate loss to Joe Lieberman and his 2010 setback to Malloy, he spent $26 million of his own money running for statewide office.
Lamont's new campaign ad is linked below and can be accessed by clicking here.
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