Guess Who’s Coming to the Debates

Allan Appel photo
If Republican Jodi Rell has her way, this man—Green Party candidate Cliff Thornton—will get to join her and Democratic candidate John DeStefano at this fall’s gubernatorial debates. The DeStefano campaign isn’t crazy about the idea.The DeStefano and Rell campaigns are in the early stages of negotiating how many debates to hold in the fall campaign and under what terms. Gov. Rell says she wants to include Thornton, who has gathered enough qualified signatures to make the fall ballot.