Meyer Expected to Depart Senate. FOI Loses a Friend.

State Senator Ed Meyer has begun telling fellow Democrats that he will not seek a sixth term this fall, Daily Ructions has learned. Meyer scored a spectacular upset in 2004 when he extinguished the gubernatorial ambitions of former state senator William Aniskovich in the aftermath of the Branford Republican’s slavish devotion to felonious former governor John G. Rowland.

Meyer campaigned in the 12th Senate District that year while seven-term incumbent Aniskovich headed for Paris and defeat. Meyer has been a steady advocate of open government laws and has openly taken on members of his own party in the legislature from time to time. Observers suggest that Meyer’s departure has been accompanied by a forceful shove from supporters of Ted Kennedy, Jr.