Spent the evening at the campaign parties for the CT Democratic convention with my good friend Representative Matt Lesser of Middletown. Met Gerry Garcia, a Yale-educated Puerto-Rican-Jewish-American running for Secretary of State. Learned about CT geography (there is a "quiet corner" of the state that is sparsely populated), met the Mayor of East Haven (who had just donated a kidney to one of her constituents), bought some freshly baked potato bread, and heard stories of lobbying, deal-making, and inter-legislator aggression.
Post-11pm Hartford was hopping with nightlife activity, at least downtown. Who knew?
Loisaida is a term derived from the Latino (and especially Puerto Rican) pronunciation of "Lower East Side", a neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City. Loisaida Avenue is now an alternate name for Avenue C in the Alphabet City neighborhood of New York City, whose population has largely been Hispanic (mainly Puerto Rican) since the late 1960s.
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