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New Britain Mayor Bobby Sanchez said he has directed the city’s corporation counsel to sue his predecessor, Erin Stewart, over more than $100,000 in legal costs incurred documenting how she improperly boosted her income over 12 years running city hall. Stewart did not respond to a request for comment.

Gov. Ned Lamont and his democratic challenger, Josh Elliott, will each speak with the AFL-CIO Thursday seeking the union's endorsement.

A federal grand jury issued a subpoena demanding New Britain produce documents related to former Mayor Erin Stewart’s alleged misuse of a city credit card, her challenged tuition reimbursements, a social club membership and the Mayor’s Trophy Charitable Fund.

The city is demanding $241,560 from its former mayor to recover tuition reimbursements, severance payments and the legal costs related to investigating how the city says she improperly boosted her income over 12 years running city hall.

In the end, Stewart received nearly $122,000 in separation payments before they were cut off in February. The appropriate amount, the city calculated, would have been $14,275.

Connecticut’s attorney general and commissioner of consumer protection opened an investigation into former New Britain Mayor Erin Stewart’s handling of charitable assets for the Mayor’s Trophy Charitable Fund, the latest blow to a politician whose career imploded last month.

An anti-LGBTQ+ social media post by Jadon MacCormack, a Republican candidate and religious podcaster in the 50th House District of Eastern Connecticut, drew bipartisan condemnation, including a suggestion by the leader of the House Republican minority that MacCormack end his campaign.

The campaign of Congressman John B. Larson took a populist turn Tuesday with a press call casting his chief rival, former Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin, as an agent of a shadowy network of billionaires. But the primary evidence offered was Bronin’s connection to a progressive advocacy group, The Connecticut Project.

Connecticut Republicans united Saturday behind a 36-year-old state senator, Ryan Fazio of Greenwich, as their choice to push the GOP past the scandal that derailed the former convention favorite, Erin Stewart, and on to the challenge of unseating an incumbent governor for the first time in 72 years.

Erin Stewart suspended her campaign for governor Thursday after an investigative report concluded that her personal use of a city credit card as mayor of New Britain was a “repeated and deliberate circumvention of the city’s purchase order system to benefit herself, members of her family, and her political campaigns.”