It’s an odd year, literally as well as figuratively, and that means it is a local election year.
You might be thinking, “Another election? Didn’t we just have one?” Here in Connecticut, we don’t go a .
Aundré Bumgardner won the Groton City Democratic primary for mayor fair and square, albeit with a very slim margin.
Yet by the fire hose of criticism aimed at him since, some of it mean and personal, you would think that he somehow cheated.
I can t remember a local election defeated Democratic Mayor Keith Hedrick is now running a write-in campaign to try to keep his job marked by as much vitriol as this one.
A former city deputy mayor noted in one of the many letters to the editor about this race that Mayor Hedrick s supporters have focused on tearing down the other candidate, while Bumgardner s have stayed positive and talked about his qualifications and vision for the city.