How does Ned Lamont make his decisions? With an eye toward good media coverage and winning favor with special interest groups. That according to Av Harris, who ran the communications team for Lamont's Department of Public Health from the start of the administration until last month.  Harris says the joke around the executive branch in Connecticut is that the governor's guiding principle is WWCD - What Would Cuomo Do? Why? 

Harris says by making joint policy with a group of states that included New York, Lamont would get more invitations from the national TV news media based in New York City. Harris explains that the administration is driven by a governor who frequently made Covid policy not in line with science, but in keeping with running "an administration that .... concentrates on ‘What kind of headlines can I get? What’s the spin? What’s the story?’ That tends to drive policy.”

We welcome Av Harris back to this week's What Divides Us for an insider's perspective about how politicians make decisions in American politics today. Even when it comes to a pandemic.