platforms that the PAC provided, Bysciewicz dropped out of the governor's race the week before the state Democratic convention and teamed with candidate Ned Lamont to run on a ticket as his running mate. To do so, however, would require that both she and Lamont obtain the party's nominations, and as of the date of the announcement, May 15, 2018, Bridgeport mayor Joseph P. Ganim and former commissioner of the state Department of Veterans Affairs Sean Connolly were seeking places on the party's primary ballot for governor and state senator Gary Winfield of New Haven and Eva Bermudez Zimmerman, a union organizer from Newtown, planned to contest the nomination for lieutenant governor. Bysiewicz is the chair of the Connecticut Complete Count Committee for the 2020 Census, and of the Governor's Council on Women and Girls, a platform for women engaged in politics and public policy. Personal life Bysiewicz met her husband, David Donaldson, while she was attending law school at Duke. Donaldson ran his father's insurance business in Manchester, now the Bysiewicz/Donaldson Agency. The couple has three children, daughters Ava and Leyna, who attended Wesleyan University, and son Tristan, who graduated from Middletown High School. References External links Lieutenant Governor Susan Bysiewicz official government website Biography at Ballotpedia |- |- |- 1961 births 20th-century American women politicians 20th-century American politicians 21st-century American women politicians 21st-century American politicians American people of Greek descent American politicians of Polish descent Catholics from Connecticut Connecticut lawyers Duke University School of Law alumni Lieutenant Governors of Connecticut Living people Democratic Party members of the Connecticut House of Representatives Politicians from Middletown, Connecticut Politicians from New Haven, Connecticut Secretaries of the State of Connecticut Women in Connecticut politics Women state legislators in Connecticut Yale University alumni