Eva Bermudez Zimmerman Clarifies a Claim. She’s Never Won an Election.

“I was elected to the Newtown Council by knocking on more doors earlier and more often than anyone else in the race–and I plan to do the same for this election,” Democratic lieutenant governor primary challenger Eva Bermudez Zimmerman claimed in a fundraising email that furrowed the brows of Democrats in Newtown and beyond. Zimmerman has never been elected to Newtown’s Legislative Council. In 2014 she was chosen by the Newtown Democratic Town Committee to fill a vacancy. Two Democratic members of the council then exercised their authority to appoint Zimmerman. She sought a full term on the council in 2015 and placed last in the competition for the district seat.

Zimmerman issued a clarification Wednesday.

The Newtown Democrat followed up on her 2015 loss by running for a local House seat the next year, losing to incumbent Republican Mitch Bolinsky by a wide margin.

Zimmerman could score a big victory by winning the AFL-CIO endorsement this Friday–or stopping the labor organization from giving its support to floundering endorsed Democrat and nine-time statewide candidate Susan Bysiewicz.