Spring has come to Connecticut and brough with it all its usual trappings - Wedding Season, Boating Season, Baseball season, and Candidate Announcement Season.  And candidates of all stripes have emerged to run for office this year. 

One of the best candidate recruitment stories of 2008 certainly has to be the candidacy of Republican City Councilor Veronica Airey-Wilson, of Hartford.  She announced yesterday that she will be facing off against longtime Democratic Sen. Eric D. Coleman for the 2nd State Senate seat.  The 2nd District is composed of the North End of Hartford, most of Windsor, and some of Bloomfield.

Airey-Wilson, who moved to Hartford when she was 8 years old from Jamaica, had this to say about the race in the Hartford Courant:

“My focus will be to try to get all three towns working together on issues that pertain to all of us,” Airey-Wilson said. “I think I’m the person to make that happen. I think Eric has served for a number of years in that capacity. But frankly, when I go around those towns, people are asking ‘Where is he?’ He hasn’t been seen that much these days.”

Airey-Wilson’s candidacy shows the strength of the Republican Party in Connecticut, and the diversity of the Party that is rarely recognized in the mainstream media (MSM).