Tongues have been wagging across the city the past few weeks about the curious hiring of Andrea Comer as council aide for newly-elected Councilman Matt Ritter.

It piqued my interest, too, so I set out to learn a bit more.

I’ll start with Comer’s political history. She used to work for Mayor Eddie Perez, campaigning for him in the fall of 2001, and then joining his mayoral staff. She left his office in August 2002 and claims there was no bad blood between them.

Click here to continue reading Ken’s report from Hartford City Hall.