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New Haven GOP taps Carlson for mayoral run
Carlson: “ I won’t handcuff the cops. I’ll let the cops handcuff the criminals.”
For the first time in 14 years, New Haven’s Republican Party is fielding a candidate for mayor.
John Carlson, who assumed the party’s chairmanship last year, llast week accepted a last-minute nomination at a GOP convention to run for the city’s highest office in an aim to break almost 60 years of Democratic control. The party also chose three alder candidates and one candidate for Board of Education.
The last Republican mayor, William C. Celentano, left office in 1953.