Hartford’s large delegation on the MDC board, including Chair William DiBella, a Fonfara booster and father of Marc DiBella, the city Democratic chief who supports Arulampalam, has not been an effective advocate for suffering residents.Ī candidate for mayor who wants to make life better in Hartford would promise to replace those MDC members with the local activists who have shamed state and federal officials to act. The program will take time to launch and so residents continue to be tormented by human waste water entering and destroying their homes and possessions. A plan to finance improvements was announced with fanfare earlier this summer-and Fonfara was included in the rollout. This month’s torrential rains flooded local homes and businesses-again. The candidates have been quiet on the Metropolitan District Commission’s manifold failures in operating the sewage and storm water systems in the city’s North End neighborhood. Without economic activity in the capital city even the most modest aspiration will not be transformed into action. Ned Lamont to get state employees back to work in Hartford. Not one of the three leading candidates has been willing to follow Bronin’s lead in calling on Gov. Coleman’s most specific proposals are to put Hartford into the utility company business and raise the number of Hartford police officers to 500 or 600. Fonfara highlights the funding he’s brought to Hartford as an influential legislator, but complains it is still not enough. What he wants to do as mayor - treat people with respect, bring music into schools and do something about out-of-state landlords - feels like a purposeful mystery to avoid controversy. With the support of town committee Chair Marc DiBella, Arulampalam appears to have the most votes going into Monday’s convention.Īrulampalam’s campaign website asks voters to join him in believing in Hartford. Arulampalam omits his lobbyist gig on his campaign website. Fonfara won his state Senate seat in 1996 after serving in the House for 10 years.Īrulampalam is a former lobbyist who made an unsuccessful bid for state treasurer in 2018, served as a deputy commissioner in the Lamont administration and left it in 2021 to become the head of the Hartford Land Bank. Coleman served in the legislature for nearly 40 years before winning a nomination to the Superior Court less than two months after he won re-election in 2016. Two of the candidates had decades to support dismantling this archaic system that protects party-endorsed candidates from what in other states are routine primary contests. GOP, lobbyist donors emerge in Hartford’s tight, three-way Democratic race for mayor Stan McCauley and city council member Nick Lebron are also expected to collect signatures to qualify for the primary. One of them will win the town committee’s endorsement, the other two, no matter how many votes each wins, will need to collect a couple of thousand signatures to get on the primary ballot. Each is an insider in his own dispiriting way. The three top competitors seeking support from the 77 town committee members are Arunan Arulampalam, Eric Coleman and John Fonfara. The Constitution State persists in its embrace of anti-democratic barriers. 12 primary, but getting to it provides an embarrassing reminder of Connecticut’s high hurdles to ballot access. The race for Democratic nomination for mayor will be decided in a Sept. Hartford is a one-party town and it belongs to the Democrats. Luke Bronin’s decision not to seek reelection propelled a host of candidates into a race that would otherwise have seen Bronin glide to a third term. Hartford Democratic Town Committee members will meet Monday evening to endorse a candidate for mayor and other city offices.
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