Education
Curry was educated at Street Justin"s School in Hartford and Northwest Catholic High School in West Hartford.
politician member of the Connecticut Senate
Curry was educated at Street Justin"s School in Hartford and Northwest Catholic High School in West Hartford.
He received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and a law degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law. In 1978, at the age of 26, he was elected state senator from a district that included Farmington, Connecticut. Curry served two terms and then faced fellow state senator Nancy Johnson, a moderate Republican from New Britain in 1982 for the open seat formerly held by Toby Moffett in what was then the Sixth Congressional District.
During the ensuing eight years, Curry practiced law and worked in public policy positions in Washington, District of Columbia He was head of Freeze Voter, a nuclear freeze group.
In 1990, Curry was elected state comptroller after a convention fight, winning statewide election against the Republican nominee, Joel Schiavone. He served one term.
The field in the general election included former Republican United States. Representative John G. Rowland, Eunice Groark (lieutenant governor under the departing officeholder, Government Lowell P Weicker, Junior), Curry and Tom Scott, a former Republican legislator from Milford, Connecticut and talk show host running a conservative, anti-tax independent candidacy
After the election, Curry accepted a post as Counselor to the President and served as domestic strategist in the Clinton White House.
Curry left the Clinton Administration after the 1996 election and served as Visiting Fellow at the Yale School of Management. In 2002, Curry again ran against Rowland.
While Curry did not face a primary opponent that year, the incumbent enjoyed a fund-raising advantage of roughly 5 to 1.
In late September of the campaign, Curry charged that Rowland"s administration had awarded contracts based on rigged bidding procedures. Although those charges later proved to be the heart of the scandal that forced Rowland to resign, plead guilty and serve a federal prison sentence, they did not become a significant issue in the campaign. Curry is a political columnist for Salon.Com.
Curry wrote a political column for the Hartford Courant in Hartford, Connecticut.
On August 26, 2007 he endorsed a United States. withdrawal from Iraq. He is also a frequent guest on National Public Radio.
He was also frequently on Colin McEnroe"s afternoon radio show on WTIC.
During his political career Curry has been the favored candidate of liberal Connecticut Democrats and pundits frequently at odds with the old style moderate policies favored by such figures as former Governor William O"Neill and former party chairman John Droney.