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Hartford’s new mayor, Pedro Segarra, is a straight arrow. Even reporters say so.
Freelancer writer Phil Knecht, who has been chasing Hartford political life daily, says, “You can write the words ‘straight arrow’ in capital letters.”
Council member Matthew Ritter agrees, adding that Segarra is “as approachable and committed
as you can find in a public official, and he understands how City Hall works.”
Hartford Courant cartoonist Bob Englehart blogs that Pedro Segarra would be Hartford’s “first
honest powerful mayor in the modern era.”
He also wrote that Segarra is “Hartford’s first gay mayor [and] who cares?”
Mayor Segarra cares. On June 26, the day after he was sworn in as mayor following the resignation of Eddie Perez, he married Charlie Ortiz, his partner of 14 years, and he was happy about that.
“I think that with marriage equality, we have come of age so now we don’t need to isolate
ourselves into a particular corner,” he said.