A Bristol Krawiecki emerges armed with roses and nine forgettable points for U.S. Senate bid.

Robert Krawiecki announced at this week’s Bristol Republican Town Committee meeting that he is seeking his party’s nomination for the United States Senate, Daily Ructions has learned.

It was a curious start to a campaign. Krawiecki handed out roses to the women at the gathering. He struggled to recall the nine points on which he will mount an assault for the party’s nomination and the general election campaign against incumbent Senator Christopher Murphy, champion of the Houthi terrorists–who Murphy has long argued are not terrorists. Helpful town committee members tried to assist Krawiecki by suggesting one of the nine points might be immigration. No, he replied, that is not on the list. The presiding party official brought the presentation to an abrupt end.

These are dreary days in Connecticut politics.

Robert Krawiecki is a brother of Edward C. Krawiecki, Jr. Daily Ructions readers of a certain vintage will recall Edward Krawiecki as the disputatious two-term House Republican leader who represented Bristol in the House from 1978-1994. Krawiecki, faced an energetic challenge in 1992 from Ellen Zoppo, declined to seek re-election in 1994.

Edward Krawiecki’s reputation was fatally damaged in 1993 when he “was fined $1,500 – the largest penalty assessed a state legislator for violating the conflict of interest provision of the ethics code,” The Hartford Courant reported. “He had tried to pass a bill that would have prevented him from being sued for legal malpractice.”

Krawiecki brought disrepute on himself, House Republicans and the legislature with his sleazy gambit to use his colleagues to punish a client he’d failed. Republican state chairman Ben Proto, then a lawyer for the House Republicans, attempted to provide mitigating testimony in the historic ethics investigation and finding. The commission properly disregarded it.

Published February 28, 2024.