Their game plan is secret, but the results are public: Solicitors for the Connecticut Democratic Party found generous donors among the ranks of state contractors in October, collecting $78,000 from five companies that did $67 million in business last year with the state.
The October numbers filed with the Federal Election Commission last week pushed contributions to the Democrats’ federal account to $1.1 million in itemized individual contributions in 2013, with about 30 percent of money coming from contractors and others with a financial or regulatory interest in state government.