Democrat Caron announces candidacy for City Council’s First District

Posted By: Staff June 5, 2023

Kim Caron will be running for the City Council’s First District alongside Democratic running-mate Andrew Rasmussen-Tuller, it was announced in a release from the Democratic Town Committee last week.

Caron said she is running for City Council because she believes the role of local administration is to be responsive to the needs of the residents and businesses in the city, according to the release.

Caron recently completed a fellowship at the University of Connecticut’s Encore! Program and is currently employed as an executive administrator for New Opportunities, Inc., a large community action agency.

Caron, a Bristol native, has served as vice chair of the city’s Freedom of Information (FOI) Advisory Board since 2018. She has also served as the executive vice president of the Central Connecticut Paralegal Association.

Kim Caron. | Photo provided by Democratic Town Committee

She has spent the last three decades working in the finance, legal and public utility sectors for a large, local defense contractor, as well as large corporations and banks.

If endorsed on July 25 by the Democratic Town Committee, Caron and Rasmullen-Tuller will be on the Democratic line of this year’s municipal election ballot.

They would be challenging Republicans Sebastian Panioto, a first-term incumbent, and Erick Rosengren, who was appointed by Mayor Jeffrey Caggiano when Jolene Luistani, who was in her first term, resigned from the council.

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