GOP’s Losing Gambler: “I’m a Finance Expert”We checked in today with Connecticut GOP Senate candidate Alan Schlesinger to see how he’s doing on day three of his card-counting-under-an-alias scandal. Schlesinger, you’ll remember, gambled at the Foxwoods casino under the assumed name “Alan Gold” in the early ’90s. And lost money every year, he says.
He’s doing pretty well. For one thing, everyone now knows he’s a card-counter — that means he’s a numbers guy. “Itâs good to have someone good at math go on to the U.S. Senate,” he told me. “Iâm a finance expert.”
What’s more, the state’s Republican governor Jodi Rell has stopped publicly urging him to drop out of the race. “As of yesterday, she’s stopped meddling,” Schlesinger said. “From what Iâve been told.”
