“That’s why it got life in the Virginia governor’s race,” said Mark Bergman, a Democratic consultant who has advised campaigns in Virginia and Connecticut.ĭemocrat Terry McAuliffe didn’t help his cause when he seemed dismissive of parents, saying, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” Last year, the election was held while Virginia parents were furious over continuing mask mandates and long school closures due to COVID-19, as well as concerns about what was being taught. Some Connecticut operatives in either party are skeptical about whether that can be replicated here. In Virginia, education was an issue in 2021, when voters ended a 12-year Democratic winning streak in governor’s races and elected Republican Glenn Youngkin, who had staged “Parents Matter” rallies. “We’re looking forward to working closely with a number of the parents’ groups that have spontaneously formed over the last six months to a year here,” Fieler said. CT Truth PAC, another independent expenditures group with a budget of at least $1 million, already is running ads on television and the web attacking Lamont, who is independently wealthy and largely self-funding his campaign. We use experiments and artificial intelligence to modify (not just predict) human behavior - we get more people to do what you need them to do.”įieler declined to say when or how its messaging would begin. His new PAC was registered March 1 with the State Elections Enforcement Commission, and its first quarterly report showed initial contributions of $80,000 from Fieler and a payment of $60,375 to Evolving Strategies of Bethesda, Md., for “messaging test research.”Įvolving Strategies describes itself on its web site as “a behavioral science and clinical data science firm. “So there’s obvious political application to these issues in a way that there aren’t for some of the other social issues in a state like Connecticut,” he said. By the numbers: Where Leora Levy won the CT Senate primary
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