Local Races

I have been very quiet on the local races that will occur this November. The presidential race is just so exciting, and very fun to watch. However, the time has come to put a post up on the Danbury races.

First of all, I belive the best race to watch will probably be the race for the State Senate. David Cappiello is not running because he is running for Congress, so this leaves the seat open. A Republican has held the seat (24th district) for over a decade. This may be the Democrats first realistic chance to take the seat in many years. However, the question will be if they can.

It appears as though Mike McLaughlin, Mayor Mark Boughton's chief of staff, will be the Republican candidate. No real Democrats have been rumored to run. Depending on who does for them will make this race either a good or bad one to watch.

As for the races for State Representative, it is a little early to predict. First of all, I have not heard of anybody considering challenging the incumbents. The safest seat, as of now, is probably the 110th district, where very popular Bob Godfrey serves. The weakest is hard to say, but the 2nd district has traditionally been closer, where Jason Bartlett currently represents. However, Bartlett had an impressive victory in 2006, and Godfrey cliamed another landslide win.

The 109th district is currently represented by Joe Taborsak, who ended up winning by a nice margin in 2006, in a race that was expected to be close. The 138th district has traditionally been the most Republican of the four districts. It is the only one served by a Republican, Jan Giegler. She did fairy well in 2006 considering it was a very Democratic year.

As candidates start to emerge I will continue to write more. Some of these races could be very interesting depending on the candidates.