Susan Bysiewicz
Susan Bysiewicz
Susan Bysiewiczserved as Secretary of the State of Connecticut from 1999 to 2011. She was briefly a candidate for Governor of Connecticut in 2010, before dropping out to run for Connecticut Attorney General. She was disqualified from running for the office by the Connecticut Supreme Court and announced in 2011 that she was running for the U.S. Senate to replace the retiring Joe Lieberman. She lost the Democratic primary to Congressman Chris Murphy, who went on to win the election...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
CountryUnited States of America
I'm the kind of person that likes to run a very energetic, tenacious campaign, ... What I found was a whole confluence of factors that I think prevented me from running that kind of campaign.
If you're a man and you are confident and you are ambitious and strong, then you are a statesman and a leader. If you are a woman and you have those qualities, well, they have a not-so-flattering term for that.
I was brought up on a farm, and I've learned that every opportunity that I've had in my life has come from hard work and persistence.
I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas and frustration of the Occupy movement. I absolutely agree with the sense that Wall Street has brought an economic calamity to the middle class and that no one has been held accountable.
There are two chief responsibilities of the Secretary's office. One is to run the elections in the State of Connecticut to make sure they run fairly and efficiently because the Secretary is the chief election official. The Secretary of the State is also the chief business registrar for the State of Connecticut.