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In the field, Malloy touts experience
Last in a series of profiles on the state's gubernatorial candidates.
SHELTON -- On his 55th birthday, Dannel Malloy is pulling a pair of beets from a field at the Jones Tree Farm and envisioning new job opportunities for the state of Connecticut.
The vegetables are bigger than softballs, but are the only survivors of a failed attempt to grow a few rows of them in this year's quirky weather.
Malloy, standing in a field of mostly young Christmas trees and pumpkins in the family's Valley Farm, is holding them like trophies, by their floppy green tops.
The studied casualness of Malloy's sneakers, blue jeans and open collar don't quite make up for the dress and accessorized high heels that his running mate, state Comptroller Nancy Wyman, is wearing as they stand with three generations of Joneses and talk farm policy.
Malloy figures aloud that if there were more meat-packing services in the state, farmers would have an incentive to raise and market local meat far beyond what's capable with the state's single slaughterhouse in upstate Bristol.
"It would make it easier if we developed a statewide permit," Malloy says. "We have 169 towns and local health directors just don't want to give up their power."
"There are synergistic health and environmental benefits to local foods," says farmer Terry Jones. "Part of our whole national health problem is we're not eating properly."
Jones says the state's $3.5 billion farm industry and the associated 19,000 jobs, could easily expand. "There's a lot of interest in producing grass-fed beef, but with that one slaughterhouse, it's costly to get processed," he says, stressing that required U.S. Department of Agriculture oversight is very expensive.
Malloy, who has cut Christmas trees here for 26 years, promises Jones that if he wins the Aug. 10 gubernatorial primary and the fall election, he'll retain current levels of state bonding funds to acquire farmland.
"Can we applaud?" says Jones, who's there with his wife, Jean, a registered dietician and son Jamie, who runs the grape-growing and wine-making arm of the farm, where dozens of people from throughout the state today are taking pick-yourself blueberries as big as cats' eyes.
Terry's father Phil, a former member of the state House of Representatives, who's almost 92, is standing under a nearby shade tent. He recalled the General Assembly from a half-century ago. "It was fun as long as there was enough money," says the family patriarch.
"Hopefully, we'll get that in the second term," Malloy replies with a laugh. "We're closing the gap, we feel good about it and we're going to win."
It's late July, just before the negative ads will start flying back and forth between Malloy and Ned Lamont, the Greenwich businessman challenging Malloy, who easily won the endorsement of delegates to the statewide Democratic convention in May.
Malloy, when he finally gets his $2.5 million from the state's voluntary public-finance program, will accuse Lamont of downsizing his business, contrary to Lamont's claims of success and acumen.
Lamont will counter, dredging up a five-year-old state investigation into Malloy's improvements to his home in the upscale Shippan neighborhood of Stamford, insinuating that something wasn't legal. A Lamont camera crew shot video outside Malloy's house in June.
Christopher L. Morano, the former chief state's attorney who headed the investigation into Malloy, recalled Friday that the then-mayor was candid and cooperative during what was a year-long probe that eventually cleared him.
"What occurred was that the investigators and inspectors from the Chief State's Attorney's office did a very thorough, lengthy investigation, interviewing witnesses and looking at documents," said Morano, who served from December 2002 until September 2006.
At the end of the probe, Malloy was invited to speak with investigators. "He came up by himself, with no attorney, and brought boxes of documents," said Morano, now a defense lawyer in private practice. "He was here for well over three hours; it may have been longer. He answered every question and asked to leave documents with us so they could be looked at."
When the probe finished, Morano issued a letter to Malloy, clearing him.
"Mr. Malloy was extremely cooperative and went through the vetting of every allegation by very experienced investigators of the Public Integrity Unit of my office, who found no wrongdoing," Morano said in a phone interview.
"In this particular case, Mr. Malloy just opened up his cards to us and I think we were somewhat surprised," recalled Morano, acknowledging that at the time of the probe five years ago, there was a public "taint" that Malloy may have felt.
"If an investigation does not come to fruition, it's the responsible thing to make it clear that a target is exonerated," Morano said.
State Sen. Andrew J. McDonald, D-Stamford, an old friend of Malloy's who was his campaign manager during his first successful 1995 mayoral election, said that it's Malloy's honesty, integrity and experience that qualify him to be the next governor, the first Democrat since William A. O'Neill left office in January 1991.
"There is no one in the field who has the experience of running a government other than Dan," McDonald said. "He understands how the different layers of government interact and how the different agencies can be moved at one time to achieve the ambitious agenda he's set forth.
"To lead a large organization, you have to know how the levers of government work," McDonald said. "People talk about running government like a business, but the skill set is very different and not transferable. I have not heard of a successful businessman who became a successful governor."
Nancy DiNardo, of Trumbull, chairwoman of the Democratic State Central Committee, said this week that both Lamont and Malloy are qualified to become the next state leader.
"Dan brings a very successful record of moving a city forward," she said. "Based upon his experience in Stamford, he knows how to reach out to businesses. He knows how to build consensus with people, which I believe will be important in turning around Connecticut and has a depth of experience with the problems we've facing."
Terry Jones, a registered Democrat, says Malloy is the only gubernatorial candidate to openly support the Working Lands Alliance of farmer and open-space advocates. Jamie Jones, a member of the state Farm Bureau, said Malloy seems to be the lone candidate interested in agriculture.
Malloy, under the shade now, sips a cup of pomegranate juice.
He is remembering the time when his family -- he was the youngest of eight kids -- made the drive to his uncle's farm in West Hartford, where they helped him harvest blueberries.
It was this time of year and in the hubbub of herding so many youngsters into the family car, Malloy was left behind when the clan drove back to Stamford.
"Farming is part of the history of Connecticut," he tells the Joneses. "We have to be extremely active in our conservation, for historic purposes to understand what our state was and to look for new purposes, like beef, bed-and-breakfasts and ecotourism."
Terry Jones explains to Malloy why he abandoned the attempt to grow the rows of beets, when the weather in May and June kept waffling back and forth between cool, hot, dry and wet. "Sometimes you just have to make the tough choices," he tells Malloy, who presents the smaller beet to Wyman. They pay for them, like the other customers, on their way out of the Valley Farm and back on the campaign trail.


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