From BurlingtonFreePress.com:

Rep. Chris Bray on Tuesday joined an expansive field of candidates vying for the lieutenant governor’s seat. The New Haven Democrat outlined agriculture as his big issue. He said he watched his hometown, New Britain, Conn., lose thousands of people when it lost its factory. He doesn’t want the same to happen to Vermont farms.

“I’m not willing to accept this is just the way it goes,” he said in reference to people’s reaction in New Britain when he was a teenager.

Bray, 54, in his third two-year term in the Legislature, is the third Democrat to say he’s in this year’s race for lieutenant governor. Rep. Steve Howard, D-Rutland, and Tim Palmer of Williston also are running. They will face off in a primary election.

Republicans also have a primary race brewing for the seat between Sen. Phil Scott, R-Washington, and businessman Mark Snelling of Starksboro.

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