Ned Lamont

Edward Miner " Ned " Lamont, Jr. ( born January 3, 1954 in Washington, DC ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party from the state of Connecticut.

He was the candidate for a Senate seat from Connecticut in the Senate elections on 7 November 2006. In the intra-party primaries, which determine the candidacy, he defeated incumbent Joe Lieberman. Lamont is heir to a multimillion dollar fortune and a member of an exclusive country clubs, which led to Heucheleivorwürfen during the election campaign. However, he missed a place in the Senate. He defeated Lieberman, who won 50 percent of the vote as an independent candidate and thus made ​​the re-entry into the Senate. Lamont came only 40 percent of the vote. Many supporters of the Republican Party gave her voice Lieberman and Republican candidate Alan Schlesinger denied the allegiance. Lieberman were generally greater opportunities than Schlesinger conceded to beat Lamont. In addition, Lieberman is regarded as conservative values ​​and was chosen as for many Republican supporters.

In November 2009, Lamont announced that he would possibly run for the gubernatorial elections in 2010 in Connecticut; In February 2010, he filed his candidacy officially with the Democratic Party. At a party congress in May 2010, he defeated his challenger Dan Malloy internal significantly. As Lamont but the internal hurdle of 15 percent of the Congress votes managed to clear, he was still able to participate in the Democratic primary on August 10, 2010, where he also clearly but lost to its competitors Malloy.