{"id":683158,"date":"2010-03-04T16:37:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T21:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.73097"},"modified":"2010-03-04T16:45:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T21:45:16","slug":"rusty-peck-announces-run-for-60th-house-district-seat-against-state-rep-peggy-sayers-in-democratic-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/683158","title":{"rendered":"Rusty Peck Announces Run For 60th House District Seat Against State Rep. Peggy Sayers In Democratic Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hartford Courant&#8217;s Dave Drury tells us:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Board of Education President Milo &#8220;Rusty&#8221; Peck announced Thursday he will challenge six-term incumbent Peggy Sayers for the Democratic nomination in the 60th House District.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A member of the board of education since 2006, Peck is a former member of the town council and has been chairman of the board of tax assessment appeals. The father of six, he is a professor of financial and government accounting and taxation at Fairfield University.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need new ideas and expertise to help tackle this problem. Peggy Sayers has served our district well since 1999, but it&#8217;s time for a change. My experience both as a certified public accountant and tax attorney &#8212; with an expertise in government finances and taxation issues &#8212; is what is needed to help find solutions for these challenging times,&#8221; Peck said in a statement announcing his candidacy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 60th District includes the eastern side of Windsor and all of Windsor Locks. Sayers, a registered nurse from Windsor Locks, announced in February she would seek a seventh term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hartford Courant&#8217;s Dave Drury tells us: &nbsp; Board of Education President Milo &#8220;Rusty&#8221; Peck announced Thursday he will challenge six-term incumbent Peggy Sayers for the Democratic nomination in the 60th House District.&nbsp; A member of the board of education since 2006, Peck is a former member of the town council and has been chairman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2RIG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}