"Some people prefer to have the old store where they can go in and buy a box of nails for 37 cents," said Stanley Kleckner, a Greenwich businessman.

Mr. Lamont, a Greenwich businessman, won the Democratic nomination for Senate in the Aug. 8 primary against the incumbent, Joseph I. Lieberman.

Like all the others promising party unity, she was throwing her support to Ned Lamont, the Greenwich businessman who had managed to take down Senator Joseph I. Lieberman.

Lieberman sought the Democratic Party's renomination for U.S. Senate from Connecticut in 2006 but lost to Ned Lamont, a Greenwich businessman and antiwar candidate.

It is not civil of Mr. Brooks to put a gentlemanly and genuinely moderate Greenwich businessman like Ned Lamont on a par with a corrupt extremist like Tom DeLay.

He did say he has received a commitment from William R. Berkley, a Greenwich businessman, to place a Canadian Football League team in Hartford if the stadium is built.

Mr. Lieberman, the three-term incumbent who lost Tuesday's Democratic primary to Ned Lamont, a Greenwich businessman, says he plans to continue his campaign as an independent.

That would be Ned Lamont, the Greenwich businessman, onetime long-shot candidate and - thanks to a victory in the August primary over Mr. Lieberman - the Democratic Senate nominee.

But of course, Mr. Lieberman upset the normal order of things last month when he began an independent bid for re-election after losing Connecticut's Democratic primary to Ned Lamont, a Greenwich businessman.

Mr. Inside, Mr. Outside That emphasis on experience draws a sharp contrast with his Republican opponent, Brook Johnson, a Greenwich businessman who has never held public office.