Simsbury First Selectman Mary Glassman, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor, has proposed a zero-growth budget in her hometown.
Glassman’s plan would involve closing one of the two town swimming pools, but would keep the larger Simsbury Farms complex open.
The Hartford Courant’s Rinker Buck has the details at http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-simsbury-budget-0218.artfeb18,0,5634069.story.
Glassman is running in a five-way Democratic battle against Greenwich cable television entrepreneur Ned Lamont, former Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy, Ridgefield First Selectman Rudy Marconi, and former Hartford state representative Juan Figueroa of Meriden. Four of the candidates are placing their bets on getting enough support at the May convention in order to qualify for the August primary. Figueroa has pledged to collect about 15,000 signatures to get his name on the ballot.
Four candidates have already dropped out of the race: Gov. M. Jodi Rell, Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz, former House Speaker James Amann, and state Sen. Gary LeBeau.