Alicia Hernandez Strong to be Guest on New Britain Forum

The next edition of the New Britain Forum by the New Britain Progressive will feature Democratic Mayoral candidate Alicia Hernandez Strong.

The New Britain Progressive has invited both of the candidates in the September 14, 2021 Democratic primary for Mayor to appear on in its live, online news show.

The New Britain Forum is the New Britain Progressive‘s new TV-style online news talk show. In past editions, it has featured NAACP New Britain Branch President Ronald P. Davis and Ald. Chris Anderson (D-AL).

Strong will appear on the show on September 3, 2021 at 7:30pm. The show is to air live on the New Britain Progressive website at newbritainindependent.com. The guest host of this edition of the show is to be New Britain Progressive Editor Rhona Cohen.

The date and time for the edition of New Britain Forum with Rep. Bobby Sanchez (D-25) as a guest is being scheduled.

Rep. Sanchez won the endorsement of the New Britain Democratic Party’s Town Committee on July 26th, but Strong collected petition signatures to qualify for a primary in which she is challenging for the Democratic nomination for Mayor.

For candidates with no primary, the Town Committee’s endorsed candidate is the party’s nominee in the November 2nd general election. But if a candidate petitions to challenge the Town Committee’s choice, the decision goes everyday Democratic voters decide their nominee for Mayor in the September 14th primary.

It remains to be seen if the eventual Democratic nominee for Mayor will prevail against Republican Mayor Erin Stewart in the November city elections. Stewart has repeatedly eluded political consequences to her own re-elections of unpopular policies and politics of her administration, including low funding for the city’s schools, higher property taxes, increased City Hall spending, floating city annual budgets with long-term taxpayer debt, the failed attempt to allow mining on public watershed land and what many view as the generally uncouth brand of the politics of her political machine.