Dennis House Elicits a Sobering Announcement from Erin Stewart.

Dennis House had New Britain’s Erin Stewart on Face the State last weekend. The second term mayor says she’s not ruling out a run for governor in 2018, perhaps in competition with her friends volatile Tim Herbst (who had trouble getting re-elected as first selectman in Trumbull last fall) and Mark Boughton, two-time gubernatorial hopeful and longtime mayor of Danbury.

Expect Stewart’s announcement that she thinks she could handle the state’s top job to exacerbate tensions among the trio. Herbst and Boughton require no additional reasons to continue their loathing of each other, but Stewart has found a way to ratchet the tensions.