Luke Bronin, who has worked at high levels within state and federal government but never held elected office, bested Hartford mayoral incumbent Pedro Segarra in the city’s Democratic primary Wednesday.
Bronin, who won the endorsement of the city’s Democrats, received 54 percent of the 9,600 total votes cast by registered Democrats, while Segarra received 46 percent, Segarra’s campaign said in a statement Wednesday night.
On the “Mornings With Ray Dunaway” radio show Thursday, Bronin complemented the man who he had spent most of this year criticizing.
“I think Pedro Segarra is a good man with a good heart who cares about the city a lot, and I think he played an important role in stabilizing the city at a difficult time,” Bronin said.
In a statement, Segarra thanked supporters, said he was disappointed in the results, and cast some uncertainty on his previous pledge to campaign as an independent mayoral candidate for the November election, should he lose the primary.
The statement said Segarra “had had not yet made a decision as to the direction of his campaign.”
Bronin was general counsel for Gov. Dannel P. Malloy from 2013 through the end of 2014. He joined Hartford law firm Hinckley Allen as a partner in January. Previously, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes at the U.S. Treasury Department.
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