After years of organizing for Democrats such as John Kerry and Barack Obama, Matt Lesser ’10, who is currently on leave from the University, will serve as Democratic Representative for the 100th district of Connecticut. Lesser won a tightly contested race against three-term incumbent Representative Raymond Kalinowski (R), in which Lesser received 6,154 votes—51 percent of votes cast—while Kalinowski received 5,833.
The concern felt by many over the present financial crisis was clear on Monday afternoon when around 100 University students, faculty and community members gathered for a program entitled “The Financial Crisis and its Political Ramifications,” held by the Center for the Study of Public Life and the departments of economics and government.