Robert R. Simmons
Connecticut Senate candidate (since March 2009)
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(Rob Simmons for Senate)
During Simmons' time as a U.S. representative, he often called himself an endangered species. The self-described Rockefeller Republican spent three years in the Army and a decade in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) before serving as a Hill staffer.
In 1986, Simmons launched his career as an elected official as a Connecticut's lawmaker before he narrowly defeated his opponent to win an incumbent's U.S. House seat in 2000. The victory earned Simmons the dubious title of the Republican sitting in the most heavily Democratic district in the country. "I have to swim against the tide, but the people of the Second District are independent, like me," he told the New York Times.
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