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TPM: Connecticut's '10 Election: Battle At Sea?

by: Larkspur

Wed Mar 17, 2010 at 13:03:03 PM EDT



Connecticut's '10 Election: Battle At Sea?

Connecticut voters will have their pick of wealthy candidates in this year's statewide elections. How to tell them apart? By their boats, of course.

The Stamford Advocate reports four Senate and gubernatorial candidates own nautical vessels:

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Guess which ones own "nautical vessels"?  The answers over the fold.
Larkspur :: TPM: Connecticut's '10 Election: Battle At Sea?
Linda McMahon and her husband own a 47-foot yacht, the "Sexy Bitch" (really).

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They keep it docked in Boca Raton, Florida.  Wonder if they have a CT dock for it.
I can see SNL having a field day with this yacht's name.

While the "Sexy Bitch" would be the flagship of most political fleets, it sinks when compared to GOP gubernatorial hopeful Tom Foley's prize: "Odalisque," a 100-foot ship he keeps in the Marshall Islands. (Bonus trivia: An odalisque was a female slave in Ottoman Turkey.)
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Let's see, the Chamber of Commerce is advocating that the US import products made with slave labor, including child slave labor, I wonder who Tom Foley will support?  I see another SNL skit for this boat.

Meanwhile, an order of magnitude or two down from the "Sexy Bitch" and "Odalisque," Daniel Malloy, Democrat running for Governor, has a 28-foot powerboat.

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No wonder Dan didn't make snide remarks about yacht and boat owners.

So Dan "make snide remarks about Lamont's wealth" Malloy owns a 28-foot powerboat?  Does it have more power than those polo ponies Malloy joked about?  Wonder if that powerboat runs on green energy?  We know that polo ponies do.

Finally, Rob Simmons, a Republican running for Senate, owns a J-22 sailboat.

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And Ned Lamont, he's apparently a landlubber, but he's got a really nice house with a swimming pool.

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Ned didn't take part in the survey (0.00 / 0)
I believe Ned is a sailor, we've talked about sailing before, but because he didn't reply to the survey the reporters just used old information about him.


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Do McMahon and Foley actually keep their yachts in Florida and the Marshall Islands, or just register them there to avoid CT taxes?

 
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