Petitioning Candidate Ready To Challenge Longtime Wallingford Mayor

After successfully petitioning to be on the ballot as an Independent candidate, Donald Kennedy is ready to challenge longtime Wallingford Mayor William W. Dickinson Jr.

Dickinson, a Republican, has been mayor since 1984 and was running for his 17th consecutive term until Kennedy qualified for the ballot.

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Kennedy, 70, is a businessman who consults with companies to help them operate more efficiently and would take the same approach to town government, according to the New Haven Register.

Kennedy told Luther Turmelle of the Register that if elected he would freeze local taxes at their current level and set out on a campaign to re-engineer the way town government operates, including automating and outsourcing operations currently done by town employees.

Read more at the New Haven Register here.