Endorsed Candidates
Pedro Segarra
Mayor of Hartfoed
Mayor Segarra is focused on job creation and making Hartford more business friendly, promoting and ensuring academic excellence in our schools, and reducing crime by providing positive alternative for our youth and concentrating on neighborhood policing. Mayor Pedro Segarra’s story is one of perseverance, independence and a desire to challenge the status quo. Born in Puerto Rico, at the age of 7 he moved with his family to New York in search of the “American Dream”. Raised by his single mother, Pedro was one of six children and was constantly exposed to conditions of extreme poverty. At the age of 15 he moved with his family to Hartford to escape the threat of gangs. Pedro has called Hartford home ever since.Visit Pedro Segarra's Website
Adam Cloud
Hartford City Treasurer
"I wanted to serve as the Treasurer of the City of Hartford for two reasons. First, as a member of this community my entire life and as a father to my own three children that my wife and I are raising here, this office represents a unique opportunity to contribute to where I came from – especially during these difficult times. Second, I wanted to serve because I believe the office requires a leader who not only has local roots, but who also brings value-added skills to bear, honed through decades of experience in Municipal Finance, Cash Management and the investment of Pension Assets. "Visit Adam Cloud's Website
Kenneth Kennedy
Hartford City Council
Councilman Kenneth H. Kennedy, Jr. (D) has served on the Hartford City Council since January 2002. He currently serves as Chairman of the Operations Management and Budget (OMB) Committee. With nearly 10 years on the Council, he has fought for the integrity of the Council concentrating on fiscal, tax and budget issues. In 2003 Councilman Kennedy was the first elected official to call into question the awarding of school building contracts by the Perez administration. He has also successfully proposed ordinances that • Reduced long-term pension costs by changing the qualifications (age and length of service) for the retirement of City employees and reducing the yearly multiplier from 2.5% per year to 1.75% per year. • Strengthened ethics standards to mirror state requirements and eliminated the taxpayer’s obligation to pay retirement benefits to public officials who violate the law. • Clarified the City Council’s authority to hire its own attorney when the opinion of the Corporation Council is questioned. As OMB Chairman Councilman Kennedy provided leadership that helped save taxpayers $1.2 million by requiring the City to review the healthcare and prescription benefits offered to City employees. As a result, the City’s prescription drug program was sent out to bid with CVS Caremark becoming the City’s provider of prescription drug services effective July 1, 2011. The oldest of the three (3) children, Councilman Kennedy was born on January 12, 1965 in Louisville, Kentucky. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia (BA, 1987) majoring in Political Science, and the University of Kentucky College of Law (J.D, 1991). Councilman Kennedy is currently employed as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Connecticut specializing in Worker’s Compensation Law. In August of 2000, the Hartford Business Journal recognized Councilman Kennedy as a rising young leader in its annual “Forty Under Forty” publication. A life-long public servant, prior to his election to City Council, Councilman Kennedy served on the Executive Committee of the Hartford Democratic Town Committee from March 1995 to March 2002. In 1999, he was appointed to a five (5) year term on both the Hartford Redevelopment Agency and the Hartford Economic Development Commission. He served as Vice Chairman of the Hartford Economic Development Commission until his election to the Hartford City Council in 2001. Councilman Kennedy has also served as a volunteer coach in the Hartford Midget Football League and for the Hartford Soccer Club girls teams. Councilman Kennedy, his wife, Monique and their three daughters have called the City of Hartford home for more than twenty years, and are still visited from time to time by former football and soccer little leaguers.Visit Kenneth Kennedy's Website
Shawn Wooden
Hartford City Council
Born and raised in the North End of Hartford, Shawn Wooden is deeply rooted in the life of his hometown. Shawn is the youngest of six children, raised by parents who moved from Georgia in search of better opportunities for their family. After working for a manufacturing company, his father opened Eddie's TV and Records on Main Street and later worked to improve the lives of low-income Hartford seniors as part of the Community Renewal Team (CRT). Shawn's mother, Fern, was a teachers' aide in a program to prepare preschool-aged children for school. She later worked at CRT as part of their lead poison prevention and energy programs. Shawn learned the importance of hard work and community involvement from the time he was a child. Shawn is a Partner at Day Pitney focusing on investment, corporate law and mergers & acquisitions. His wife, Biree, is a hematologist/oncologist on the faculty at the UConn Health Center. The couple worship at Faith Congregational Church and live in the West End with their two sons.
Kyle Anderson
Hartford City Council
Raised in the North end of Hartford in the same house currently living. Lived in all three areas of the city, North, South, and West. Educated in the Hartford Public school system, attended Barbour School Elementary, Lewis Fox Middle School and Thomas Snell Weaver High School Class of 1980.Alex Aponte
Hartford City Council
Councilman Alexander Aponte graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in 1977 and Columbia University School of Law in 1980. He was admitted to both the Connecticut and Federal Bar in 1980. His first job was with Neighborhood Legal Services on Albany Avenue in Hartford. In the late eighties Councilman Aponte was named Corporation Counsel for the City of New Britain and served under Mayor DeFronzo and his successor. By 1995 Councilman Aponte established his private law practice in Hartford and several years later was named Corporation Counsel by Mayor Peters and served under both Mayor Peters and his successor. In August of 2010 Councilman Aponte was named to the Hartford Common Council to fill a vacancy on the Council. Currently he is chair of the Planning and Economic Development Committee as well as the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Council. Councilman Aponte continues to practice law in the City of Hartford. He is the husband of Marisol Aponte and the proud father of four children. He and his family reside in Hartford.Visit Alex Aponte's Website
Raul DeJesus
Hartford City Council
Raul DeJesus was born, raised, and educated in Hartford. He is a living example of the excellence that our City can produce. Raul understands that change must come from within. His Hartford roots help him understand our City’s problems from the ground up because he has experienced them first hand. Raul strives to improve Hartford and is leading a movement to get people involved. His dedication to Hartford started early, at age twenty, marked by a historic run for mayor in 2007. Raul and his wife Margaret are proud Hartford homeowners, living in the Parkville neighborhood with their 4 month old son. Raul is the Vice Chair of the Parent Academy, a program that teaches Hartford parents how enhance their own children’s education. He helped develop Prince Tech High’s nationally award-winning curriculum, and serves as a team leader at CPA, formerly known as “Connecticut Prison Association”, which rehabilitates offenders to back to productivity. He also is a member of the board for the Hartford Food System, the Charter Oak Boxing Academy, and The Youth Commission. Raul believes that his homegrown roots and activity in the community give him the understanding of crucial issues effecting Hartford’s people. Raul knows his fresh perspective will bring innovative ideas at a time when Hartford needs change most.
