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Josh Elliott brings 'black sheep' instinct to gubernatorial challenge

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Rep. Josh Elliott, who faces Gov. Ned Lamont in the Democratic primary next week, has his own origin story. If you ask, he'll tell it.

Josh Elliott calls himself a “black sheep” for reasons unrelated to his insistent demand that the Connecticut Democratic Party dump Gov. Ned Lamont in next week’s rare gubernatorial primary for a younger, bolder, more liberal alternative: Namely, a state representative named Josh Elliott. Lamont’s origin story as a beneficiary of multigenerational wealth, a great-grandson of the J.P. Morgan & Co. executive featured on the cover of Time after the Wall Street crash of 1929, is fodder for Elliott’s taunting ads. His own origin story is unconventional and not widely known. But if you a

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