BLOOMFIELD — Mayor Sydney T. Schulman has formed an exploratory committee to seek the Democratic nomination for attorney general.
Schulman registered the committee with the State Elections Enforcement Commission on Feb. 18 before leaving for an extended vacation in Puerto Rico with his wife, Elba.
A lawyer who specializes in public interest law, Schulman was the fourth lawyer hired by Neighborhood Legal Services Inc., at the time a newly formed War on Poverty program established in Hartford to provide legal services for the poor.
Schulman served as executive director of the agency from 1969 to 1974, eventually leaving to establish his own practice.
“I think I exceed the minimum legal requirement,” he joked in a not-so-thinly veiled reference to the candidacy of Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz. Bysiewicz, the odds-on favorite for the attorney general nomination, has found her candidacy stalled, at least temporarily, by questions concerning whether she has practiced law in Connecticut for 10 years, as is required to hold the office.
Schulman has served as Bloomfield mayor since 2003 and is in his eighth term on the town council.
— David Drury, Special to the Courant