Kasser Resigns Senate Seat. Cites “Personal Circumstances and Ongoing Divorce.” Claims “Too Painful to be in Greenwich.”

State Senator Alex Kasser (D-Greenwich) has resigned. The second term Democrat cites “personal circumstances and ongoing divorce litigation” as the reasons for her shock announcement.

Kasser has commented often in public about her marriage to and divorce from finance executive Seth Bergstein.

Kasser posted a statement Tuesday morning on Medium explaining her decision. She explains that living in Greenwich has become an ordeal and that she no longer has contact with the three children. Kasser earlier complained in a court filing that the location of the $5,200 a month apartment she was renting near a Greenwich station was noisy and had caused one of her children not to want to visit Kasser there.

Kasser announced in a 2019 speech delivered early in her first term that she was going to take on privilege and the patriarchy. A slew of declarations followed, including that she was seeking a dissolution of her marriage and changing her last name. After that she started to find attorneys for family law who would take up this case. And then She got help of the lawyers from a reputed law firm like Jensen Family law firm. You can learn more from Jensen Family Law about divorce and the legalities related to that. Bergstein countered in a court filing with the help of lawyers from Worcester O’Connor Family Law that the couple’s children learned about the announcements when they were made public.

Kasser’s resignation is effective immediately, triggering a special election this summer. Special elections do not allow party primaries.