Voting Today for Probate Judge, Mayoral and Council Democratic Nominations
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Voting Today for Probate Judge, Mayoral and Council Democratic Nominations

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New Britain Democratic voters go to the polls today to nominate their candidates for Judge of Probate, Mayor and At-Large Council.

Mayoral candidate, Rep. Bobby Sanchez (D-25), won the endorsement of the New Britain Democratic Party’s Town Committee on July 26th, but political activist and Mayoral candidate Alicia Hernandez Strong collected petition signatures to qualify for a September 14, 2021 primary in which everyday Democratic voters decide their nominee for Mayor.

The first choice on the Democrats’ primary ballot is for Judge of Probate. Attorney William C. Rivera was endorsed by the Democratic convention for the probate district that includes New Britain and Berlin. Attorney Robert A. Scalise, Jr. petitioned to primary for the Democratic nomination. The Democratic voters will nominate one of the two candidates.

2021 Democratic Judge of Probate Primary Candidates

Endorsed DemocratPetitioning Democrat
William C. RiveraRobert A. Scalise, Jr.

Democratic voters then choose their nominee for Mayor.

2021 Democratic Mayoral Primary Candidates

Endorsed DemocratPetitioning Democrat
Bobby SanchezAlicia Hernandez Strong

When Rep. Sanchez was endorsed in July, the Democratic Town Committee also endorsed five candidates for At-Large Council seats. Members of the Council are called Alderpersons. The endorsed candidates are Ald. Chris Anderson (D-AL), Amy Labas-Barbosa, Ald. Richard Reyes (D-AL), Ald. Francisco Santiago (D-5) and current Board of Education Member, Dr. Violet Jiménez Sims (D).

Two more candidates, Richard Lacourciere and Nate Simpson, petitioned to primary the endorsed At-Large Council slate as part of Strong’s “People’s Slate.”

2021 Democratic Council Primary Candidates

Endorsed DemocratPetitioning Democrat
Chris AndersonRichard Lacourciere
Amy Labas-BarbosaNate Simpson
Richard Reyes
Francisco Santiago
Violet Jiménez Sims

Democrats who are voting in person on September 14th will be able to vote in their designated polling place. New Britain has seventeen polling places.

VOTING DISTRICTASSEMBLY DISTRICTWARDLOCATIONADDRESS
1241Vance Village School183 Vance Street
2241VFW Post 511 Hall41 Veterans Drive
3242Roosevelt Middle School40 Goodwin Street
4245Gaffney School322 Slater Road
5253New Britain Senior Center55 Pearl Street
5-1253School Apartments50 Bassett Street
5-2253Graham Apartments107 Martin Luther King Drive
6252St Jean Baptiste Société209 Smalley Street
7253Generale Ameglio13 Beaver Street
8253International Church40 Acorn Street
9252St Jean Baptiste Société209 Smalley Street
10264Saint Francis Church Hall1755 Stanley Street
11264Holmes School2150 Stanley Street
12265Pulaski Middle School757 Farmington Avenue
13264St. John Paul II School221 Farmington Avenue
14225DiLoreto School732 Slater Road
15241Slade Middle School183 Steele Street

Polls are to remain open from 6:00am to 8:00pm.

Republican Mayor Erin Stewart and her fellow Republicans were nominated without a primary. It remains to be seen if the Democratic nominee for Mayor will prevail against Stewart in the November 2, 2021 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.

               

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