{"id":241,"date":"2022-01-25T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/bprc\/?p=241"},"modified":"2022-02-16T15:02:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T15:02:59","slug":"delany-wins-in-special-election-puts-another-democrat-in-state-legislature-representing-stamford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/bprc\/2022\/01\/25\/delany-wins-in-special-election-puts-another-democrat-in-state-legislature-representing-stamford\/","title":{"rendered":"Delany wins in special election, puts another Democrat in state legislature representing Stamford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>STAMFORD \u2014 Democrat Hubert Delany won the special election for the state House\u2019s 144th District seat, which opened up after Caroline Simmons was elected the city\u2019s mayor in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to unofficial results, Delany, a 28-year-old U.S. Army public affairs adviser and member of Simmons\u2019 transition team, defeated Republican Danny Melchionne, a 33-year-old registered respiratory therapist and personal trainer, 56 percent to 44 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe won!\u201d a jubilant Delany yelled to his supporters as they gathered at the Stamford Democratic City Committee headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stamfordadvocate.com\/elections\/article\/Stamford-voters-head-to-the-polls-for-144th-state-16802614.php\">Read the Stamford Advocate article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAMFORD \u2014 Democrat Hubert Delany won the special election for the state House\u2019s 144th District seat, which opened up after Caroline Simmons was elected the city\u2019s mayor in November. According &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/bprc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/bprc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/bprc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/bprc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/bprc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/bprc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/bprc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/bprc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/bprc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/bprc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}