Over on Connecticut Local Politics is a blog post about the upcoming municipal elections. I started to write a comment there, but my browser crashed, so I figured I would start over and write it as a full post on my site.

These are some of the races I’m particularly interested in:

Greenwich First Selectman: Democrat Peter Berg is running against one term incumbent Jim Lash. Peter helped out with my wife’s State Rep campaign. He’s a bright guy and would be a great first selectman

Stamford Mayor: My home town. Mayor Dan Malloy is running for re-election. The Republicans are fielding Chris Munger. Munger is a retired FBI agent. So far, his campaign has been less than exciting. Al Fiore was running as a petition candidate and has dropped out to support Munger. Darek Shapiro is running as a Green candidate in this race and is a much more interesting than Munger.

It will be interesting to see how the Greens do in Stamford. They have two other candidates on the ballot this year, Trish Haines Dayan who is running for Board of Education and David Bedell who is running for Constable. In the Board of Education race, the Democrats are also fielding incumbent Marggie Laurie, who is really good as well as Richard Freedman and Donald Huppert.

Up in Danbury, there is an exciting Mayoral race with Democrat Dean Esposito challenging incumbent Mark Boughton Boughton has been in the news a lot because of his statements about immigrants.

Also of interest in Danbury is Lori Kabeck who has been working as assistant town clerk in Danbury for many years and is now running for Town Clerk.

In Norwalk, Mike Geake is running for re-election as a commissioner in the second taxing district. I met Mike very early on in the Dean campaign and he is a great guy.

In Stratford, Jim Miron is running as the Democratic candidate for Mayor. This is the first mayoral race since they revised their charter. The Republicans are fielding Dom Costello and there are three petitioning candidates on the ballot.

Up in Shelton, former Democratic Mayor Mike Pacowta is running against incumbent Mark Lauretti. Mike was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer.

In New Britain, Jason Jakubowski is running for Mayor. You can here a podcast with Jason at ctpolitics.net.

There are a bunch of other interesting races, but these are the ones that come to mind off the top of my head.