Sen. Doug McCrory, a veteran Democratic lawmaker, lost a bid to hold onto his state Senate seat representing Hartford, Bloomfield, and Windsor in one of the state’s most closely watched legislative primaries on Tuesday night.
Primary Results
McCrory, who is the subject of an ongoing federal criminal investigation, came in third in a three-way race behind state Rep. Maryam Khan and Ayana Taylor, the chairwoman of the Windsor Board of Education, according to early results compiled by the candidates.
Khan, who won the Democratic endorsement in the race at a hotly contested convention in May, declared victory in the race early Tuesday night. “Tonight, the voters of Hartford, Windsor, and Bloomfield sent a message that’s been building for years: our government belongs to the people who show up for it, not the people who buy their way into it,” Khan said in a statement.
McCrory’s election defeat comes roughly a year after news broke that the Democratic senator was being investigated by the FBI for his role in dispersing millions of dollars in state grant money to a number of Hartford nonprofits.
Original reporting: The Connecticut Mirror — read the source article.
