Leapin’ Lizards Alert: You Know the State’s Bad When Ned Lamont Needs a Fiver.

Connecticut’s troubles must be are worsening. No better proof than a fundraising email from wealthy Greenwich scion Ned Lamont. The self-funder needs $5. He made the appeal in a message announcing “an emergency fundraising drive.”

Lamont poured millions from his family fortune into his 2006 U.S. Senate campaign against incumbent Democrat Joseph I. Lieberman. In that campaign, Lamont’s spokesperson would disguise his cash transfers as “amplifying” the few donations he received from supporters. Lamont reached into his deep pockets in 2010 in a race for the Democratic nomination for governor, losing the August primary to Dannel P. Malloy by 15 points.

The Lamont family exchequer can’t be empty. He hasn’t been paying hefty dues to the all-white Greenwich country club he belonged to until just before he launched his bid against Lieberman.