Logan to announce second bid for Congress Monday.
Former Republican state Senator George Logan will launch his second bid for the 5th Congressional District on Monday, October 2nd. Logan teased the announcement Wednesday on Twitter.
If Republicans nominate Logan, the contest will be a rematch with third-term incumbent Democrat Jahana Hayes. Logan lost to Hayes in 2022 by a little under 2,000 votes. The former two-term state legislator moved from his Ansonia home in the 3rd Congressional District to a residence in Meriden, putting him in the 5th. Logan continues to own his home in Ansonia but has registered a German luxury car in Meriden.
Logan took a drubbing in the Farmington Valley, once a reliable source of Republican votes. Logan unfurled his colors as a supporter of Donald Trump when one of the twice-impeached former president’s prominent lickspittles, Representative Elise Stefanik, headlined a Greenwich fundraiser for him. Logan will travel to the heart of Q-Anon country Monday to make his announcement in Watertown—home to the state’s highest ranking openly Q-Anon supporter, state Senator Eric Berthel.
Logan is expected to devote himself full-time in this campaign sooner than he did in 2022. Continuing to work for Eversource subsidiary Aquarian far into the last campaign may have made a difference in the outcome of the election.
Republicans in and out of the district are waiting for ESPN broadcaster Sage Steele, of Avon, to decide if she will enter contest.
Published September 27, 2023.