The Hartford Courant's Jenna Carlesso is reporting that Democrat Shawn Wooden will be dropping out of the mayor's race and instead support Mayor Pedro Segarra in the November race.
An attorney who grew up in the city's North End, Wooden had been seen as a formidable foe for Segarra, who took over at city hall after the resignation of Eddie Perez. Perez was convicted on multiple felony counts after a longrunning corruption investigation involving improvements to his home on Bloomfield Avenue near the University of Hartford.
