New Haven Health Director Maritza Bond announces campaign for Secretary of the State
Maritza Bond, the present-day New Haven Well being Director, entered the race for Secretary of the Point out.
Pia Baldwin Edwards
Team Reporter
WTNH
On Sunday, metropolis Director of Wellness Maritza Bond announced her candidacy for Connecticut Secretary of the State.
Bond is managing towards Point out Rep. Stephanie Thomas of Norwalk, Meridian Condition Rep. Hilda Santiago, Hamden Condition Rep. Joshua Elliott, New Haven Alder Darryl Brackeen and Middletown State Senator Matt Lesser on the Democratic aspect. Dominic Rapini and Brock Weber are the only Republicans to announce their candidacy consequently significantly.
“She’s revealed time and time again that offered new issues, she thrives. She did it with the pandemic in New Haven, and she’ll do it again as the up coming Secretary of the Point out,” explained Andrew McIndoo, a spokesperson for Bond’s campaign.
If elected, Bond mentioned she would search for to make it less complicated to vote and do organization. She aims to carry early voting to Connecticut, restore trust between regional election officials and the Secretary of the State’s workplace, make improvements to enterprise products and services by restoring fiscal autonomy to the SOTS workplace and restore the SOTS little and minority small business device, according to her marketing campaign web-site.
McIndoo pointed out that Bond rose up the ranks to be the Director of Public Health and fitness in Bridgeport and now New Haven and that she is the first Hispanic community well being director in the point out.
The decision is “kind of inherently connected to her final decision to go into general public health and fitness to start off with, which is to enable men and women, and she’s a born problem solver,” McIndoo explained.
Bond is capitalizing on her experience all over her marketing campaign. What differentiates her from other candidates, according to McIndoo, is “her perspective, it is her lived practical experience, and it’s her occupation. At the finish of the day, the Secretary of the Condition work is an government situation. She’s accomplished this for years. She’s been successful. She’s thrived in these positions, and she would strike the floor operating from day 1.”
Michael Licamele, who worked with Bond in the course of her earlier occupation as Bridgeport’s well being director, informed the News this tumble that he supports Bond due to the fact “she’s bought the electricity for this career and the govt working experience which is absolutely transferable to the Secretary of the State.”
Bond led New Haven during the COVID-19 pandemic, primary attempts to educate citizens to socially distance, get vaccinated and put on masks. In accordance to McIndoo, Bond’s major challenge will be getting as a result of the Democratic convention.
The primary election for Connecticut’s Secretary of the State will take put on Aug. 9, 2022, and the general election will just take position on Nov. 8, 2022.
Pia Baldwin Edwards reports on Connecticut Condition Policy and how it impacts New Haven. Pia is at first from Evanston, Illinois, but as of a handful of several years ago, now phone calls New Orleans dwelling. She is a initially calendar year in Saybrook College or university majoring in Ethics, Politics, and Economics.