First TV ads go to Fox 61

So, where do you go to seek out Connecticut’s Republican voters during the steamy summer primary season?

Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton, the GOP-endorsed candidate for governor is going to the source, and has purchased 78 ads over the next three weeks on WTIC-TV Fox 61.

In what can be called a judicious, $13,825 media buy, Fox 61 viewers will see his 30-second spots during the 10-to-11 p.m. hour; between 4:30 and 5 p.m.; and between 8 and 9 a.m., according to the TV station’s public filings mandated by the Federal Communications Commission.

Boughton last week received more than $1.35 million from the state’s voluntary public-financing program, joining multimilliondollar, self-funding outsiders David Stemerman of Greenwich and Bob Stefanowski in the primary air game. Both Stefanowski and Stemerman avoided the May GOP convention, instead focusing on their successful petition campaigns to gain access to the party’s Aug. 14 primary.

Tim Herbst, the former Trumbull first selectman who came in second during the Republican convention, also received his primary grant last week from the Citizens’ Election Program, but any contracts he has with state broadcasters had not been posted late Monday afternoon.

The third candidate to survive the convention, Steve Obsitnik, a tech entrepreneur from Westport, is stalled by the State Elections Enforcement Commission, which is investigating his campaign’s ties to an independent group called FixCT Inc.

Contributed photo In his first statewide television commercial of the campaign, Republican-endorsed gubernatorial candidate Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton will focus on his health scare.