Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra wants another term in office. He held news conference early Monday afternoon, where he announced that he will seek re-election.
Segarra. a former city councilman, took over as mayor in June 2010.
He was sworn in right after then-Mayor Eddie Perez resigned after being convicted on corruption charges.
When Segarra took the job of mayor, "it wasn't a job people were lining up for," he said during the announcement.
“After many years, there is optimism back in Hartford,” Segarra said on Monday.
Segarra was elected to his first full-term in November 2011.
He is Hartford's first openly gay mayor.
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Among Segarra's iniatives in the coming year is to build a baseball stadium to accommodate bringing the Rock Cats minor league baseball team from New Britain to Hartford.
