Connecticut long had a reputation for strong political parties led by strong political leaders. There was a time when the chairman of each party was a powerful boss who chose his party’s candidates for statewide and congressional offices and pressured the delegates at party conventions to nominate them; a time when the party organizations got out the vote and helped their candidates win elections; a time when the chairman ruled over the General Assembly and determined which bills passed and which did not.
John M. Bailey, Democratic Party chairman from 1946 to 1975, personified that power. Those times have passed.
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