April 19, 2009

At its April meeting, Norwalk's District B Democratic Committee voted to endorse me as their at-large candidate for Common Council. The next day, we filed the paperwork to terminate my exploratory committee and establish my candidate committee.

Try as I might, I could not make a run for mayor work this year. Norwalk is a very expensive place to live, and there was no way for me to take that large a cut in salary and still pay my mortgage.

October 1, 2008

Today I filed the paperwork to create an exploratory committee for next year's municipal elections. This allows me to decide — between now and next Spring — whether I want to run for re-election for my at-large seat on the Common Council (at 75%, by far the most likely), run for mayor (a 10% probability), run for Common Council from District B (5%, and only if either Carvin Hilliard or Phyllis Bolden chooses not to run for re-election and there is somebody with sufficient name recognition and qualifications to run at-large), run for Town Clerk (5% if Andy Garfunkel chooses something else), or retire altogether from the partisan bickering that is Norwalk politics (about 5%, depending on the time of day and who's attacking me and for what).

I've always believed in starting early; it has become tradition for me to file campaign paperwork on the day after the election. Next year is going to be different, precisely because I choose to put the needs of our city above partisanship, so I feel the need to start even earlier this time.

I won't start actively fundraising until after this November's election, but now I can work on this website without technically violating Connecticut campaign finance laws.