Ritter Taking a Look at AG Race.

State Representative Matthew Ritter (D-Hartford) has also been working the phones today in the aftermath of Attorney General George Jepsen’s dramatic announcement that he will not seek a third term. Ritter, House Majority Leader, would become speaker if incumbent Joe Aresimowicz takes a union promotion instead of seeking re-eletion and Democrats maintain their narrow majority in the lower chamber.

Ritter would have a claim on the large Hartford delegation to the Democratic state convention, though fellow Democrats may be reluctant to load the ticket with capitol city candidates.