Hartford City Council member Matt Ritter is one step closer to the state legislature.  Late today a judge denied State Representative Ken Green’s request to overturn the results of the Democratic primary election in August, which in a recount gave the victory to Ritter by two votes.

“I’ve won twice,” Ritter told me tonight as he celebrated.    Judge Susan Peck read a 35 minute decision today saying there was no evidence to support Green’s request.

In an irrelevant six degrees of separation thing, Judge Peck used to own the brownstone that  Kara and I later owned.