The Courant reports that Elizabeth Horton Sheff will not run for re-election on Hartford’s City Council. Horton Sheff spoke to the paper about her frustration with other council members who have failed to be critical of the mayor.
“I tried to get the council to better examine the kinds of things that Eddie put before us, but they just passed stuff,” she added. “Some of it I may have agreed with, lots of it I didn’t. But I was trying to get across to my council colleagues that we needed to look at this stuff, and really do our due diligence, and not just approve everything.”
Luis Cotto, running for City Council under the Working Families Party, would be a nice replacement for Horton Sheff. Get a few Republicans in there who aren’t beholden to Perez, and maybe we’ll see some progress.