Above: State Rep. Carlo Leone, (D-Stamford), left, and Republican Bob Kolenberg, right.
It took little time for nearly half a dozen candidates to line up to run for the soon-to-be-vacant seat of state Senator Andrew McDonald.
When incoming Gov. Dan Malloy last month announced his decision to pluck longtime pal Andrew McDonald from Senate to serve as general counsel in his administration, five potential candidates, including four Democrats, said they were weighing a run for the District 27 seat, which represents Stamford and Darien.
But the field just got smaller Monday, when three of the prospective Democratic candidates pledged to throw their support behind state Rep. Carlo Leone. As Stamford’s most senior member of its six-member delegation to the General Assembly, Leone has served District 148 in the Glenbrook and Cove section of Stamford since 2002.
The development means the race is shaping up to pit Leone against Republican Bob Kolenberg, who ran and lost to McDonald in November.