Onward: Hayes Will Primary to Reclaim Nomination Swiped in the Switches.

National Teacher of the Year Jahana Hayes has overcome far more than the likes of privileged Mary Glassman. The Simsbury Democrat’s campaign team may have connived successfully to work the switches in mysterious ways at Monday’s 5th CD nominating convention, but they cannot keep Hayes from forcing a primary. A robust response to Hayes’ most recent fundraising appeal may be attributed in part to resentment over the end-of-balloting switches that snatched the party endorsement from Hayes and moving it to Glassman.

The method of declaring and tallying the switches has caused considerable dismay among Hayes supporters who have attempted reconstruct the unusual sequence of events at the Waterbury convention. The tawdry nature of roll call switching that changes the outcome of a convention may turn out to be a burden for Glassman, who has been defeated in two races for lieutenant governor and one for governor.