Brune: Ward 6 needs Jack Connolly

Former mayor and Ward 6 Alderman Eugene C. Brune said Friday October 28, John M. Connolly is integral to the success of Ward 6.

Connolly, after 22 years on the Board of Alderman, is being challenged for his seat by Rebekah Gewirtz.

Gewirtz, co-founder of the Progressive Democrats of Somerville, has received endorsements from Sen. Patricia D. Jehlen, D-Somerville and is very "energetic and determined to help the city," said Brune.

But the former maayor and current Register of Deeds said, "I don’t know if she truly knows Somerville like Jack does. She only knows Somerville how it is today, and Jack played a major part in taking Ward 6 from where it was then, which wasn’t always so nice, to where it is now," he said.