Mary Fay is Running for Congress.

West Hartford council member Mary Fay will be chosen tonight as the Republican nominee for Congress from the state’s 1st District. Fay was elected to the town council last year. In 2018, she unsuccessfully sought a seat in the state’s House of Representatives

Fay made her announcement Thursday on Facebook. She will face incumbent Democrat John Larson, who was first elected to the seat in 1998.

Fay made news earlier this year when she was laid-off as executive director of the struggling  Connecticut State Retirement Authority. She did not leave the office quietly.