CT: Republican-Turned-Independent Plans Gubernatorial Bid

From the Connecticut Mirror:

Tom Marsh is working for a big promotion. As first selectman of Chester, a Connecticut River Valley town with a population of less than 4,000, he oversees a workforce of 20, not counting teachers, and a budget of a little more than $12 million.

In his next job, he hopes to take on a workforce of 55,000, a budget of $18.6 billion and a constituency of 3.5 million. Marsh wants to be Connecticut's governor. Marsh says his decision to run for governor, first as a Republican and now as the candidate of the Independent Party of Connecticut, arose from the frustrations he experienced as a small-town official trying to cope with local problems and issues, and getting little help from Hartford.