Longtime Wallingford Councilor Decides Not to Run for Re-Election

After 36 years on the Wallingford Town Council, Republican Robert F. Parisi will not seek re-election this year, the Meriden Record-Journal reports.

Parisi, who served as council chairman for 18 years, is the second Republican councilor to decide not to run again.

Christine Mansfield recently announced she wouldn’t seek re-election because her family became concerned of recurring verbal attacks from local parents.

Republican Town Committee Chairman Bob Prentice told Eric Vo of the Record-Journal that he knew the time was coming when Parisi wouldn’t run again but added it was “unfortunate” and said Parisi had the “stability that people loved.”

Read more at the Meriden Record-Journal here.

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