[2] Groark ran on the ticket of A Connecticut Party (ACP) with Lowell Weicker, winning the election with 41% of the vote.

[3] After Weicker declined to run for a second term, Groark ran for governor on the A Connecticut Party ticket but lost the election to Republican candidate John G.

[1][8] In 1991, Governor Weicker introduced a controversial plan to balance the state budget by implementing an earned income tax.

Outspent by her rivals, Groark lost the 1994 Connecticut gubernatorial election, winning 19% of the vote in a four-way race.

[4] Because Groark failed to gain 20% of the vote to retain major party status for the ACP, its influence ended in Connecticut politics.

Conversely, Jonathan Pelto, a former political director of the Connecticut Democratic Party, believed had Scott not been on the ballot, Rowland would have won in a landslide.