Danbury mayor starts fundraising for 2018 gubernatorial bid

Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton is eyeballing another run for statewide office, acknowledging that he is working to raise $250,000 in small contributions in order to secure public financing for a new campaign.

In an interview with the New Haven Register, Boughton stated that he set a January 2018 goal to reach the $250,000 goal, which will provide him with $1.25 million in public funds for a primary race and more than $6.5 million for a general election bid, according to the funding parameters of the Citizens Election Program.

Now in his eighth term as mayor, Boughton made two previous attempts for the Republican gubernatorial nomination: a 2010 bid in which he later accepted the lieutenant governor role in Tom Foley”™s unsuccessful campaign, and in 2014 when he suspended his campaign after falling short in his fundraising efforts.