It's the New Year and, for Ned Lamont, that means there is only one week left to prepare for the day he takes over the reins of state government.

Lamont has signaled a pol-lamont-style-governor-malloy-20181230-d77ldwxrxnhedjqka3hqtkx7xy-story.html">willingness to be a consensus-builder, someone who brings together opposing viewpoints to reach effective solutions. But does he have the backbone to stand firm during the budget process when groups that propelled him into office pol-ned-lamont-spending-requests-20181231-rhqesfdu4raizfse5a5l3eidke-story.html">present him with wish-lists the state can't readily afford?

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