 Both of her parents were New Haven Alderman, and her husband, Stanley Greenberg, is a highly reputed consultant and pollster.DeLauro has faced little opposition since 1990, when she barely defeated young state legislator Tom Scott of Milford, an anti-tax Republican who made DeLauro's strong support of a woman's right to choose a central issue in the campaign.While Republicans almost captured the 1990 open-seat being vacated by Bruce Morrison in his unsuccessful campaign for Governor, and had actually held it for one term in the 1980s, the 3rd district has become more Democratic since the Bill Clinton years.