State Official Eyeing Future Run For Governor?

THOMPSON, CT – State Comptroller Sean Scanlon, visiting the town of Thompson in the northeast part of the state this week, dropped a hint he would be open to running for governor if Ned Lamont decides not to run again.

The comment came about during a Q&A session at the event when he was asked what was next for him.

“I have no interest to go to Washington. I think that Washington is the antithesis of what I believe in politics, which is that I think Democrats and Republicans can still work together to solve problems,” he said.

He added that his home life and his two boys were something that he loved to come to every night to.

“I love state government. I love the job that I have. The governor, I think is leaning towards running again for another term, and I think he’s doing a really good job,” Scanlon said.

He continued that if Lamont decided not to run that governor “is a job that I’m interested in and probably the only job that I’m interested in beside the one that I have.”

But before making any decision, he said he would need to talk to his wife and figure out the potential impact on his children. Governor, also, has certain restrictions that his current role does not, he said.

FILE PHOTO: Comptroller Sean Scanlon speaks to local residents at a business in Thompson, Connecticut on June 9, 2025. Credit: Brian Scott-Smith / CTNewsJunkie

“If my wife says, hey, we’re out of milk. I could get in my car and drive to the grocery store. I don’t know how I’d feel about having state troopers around me all the time and not being able to have that freedom,” he said. “So, it’s a give and take in anything you do, but there’s no greater office in the state that you can have an impact on people.”

In response to questions on other topics, Scanlon said the state was out of its historic fiscal crisis, but was facing a new crisis of ‘affordability’ when it comes to housing, healthcare and childcare.

“We’re all struggling with the same things as a state. And I think and hope that in the next few years we can be really big and bold when it comes to tackling these things,” he said. “I have lived in this state my whole life. I have two young boys who are three and six, and I want them to inherit a better state than the one that I did.”