A few days ago the pols listed below became baseball, hotdogs and apple pie, sweetness to the pleasure center of all candidates vying to replace Marilyn Moore who announced she’ll not seek another two-year term throwing the race wide open.
They all became someone’s friend over night.
“I need your support to make the ballot. Please, please, please.”
“What’s in it for me?”
“Diamonds, roses and champagne.”
When the Democratic delegates in Connecticut’s 22nd District were selected many weeks ago it was thought the convention would be perfunctory, Moore lined up for another term with no likely opponent. But her announcement last week gushes a cascade of possibilities.
The list below covers the Bridgeport delegates the balance coming from Trumbull and Monroe in the city-suburban district. In all 59 delegates covering three communities. Nine votes, 15 percent support, qualifies candidates for a ballot spot.
Some of these names you recognize, some not. They essentially are the most active political players in the city selected by the 90-member Democratic Town Committee. The number to the left is the City Council district of their residency, the right the State House district.
Bill Finch, Tyler Mack, Scott Burns, Jeanette Herron, Shantè Hanks, Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox are the candidates working the phones. It’s possible others could jump in. For more on the candidates see here.
Finch who occupied the seat for seven years and afterwards eight years as mayor is by far the best known. Mack and Herron are known territorially from service on the City Council, Hanks from her role as deputy state commissioner of housing, Gadkar-Wilcox from three runs in Trumbull for the State House.
Delegates and candidates convene Tuesday, 5:30 p.m. in the first floor conference rooms of the Margaret Morton Government Center, 999 Broad Street Downtown.
