Latina to New Britain.

Popular Republican Jodi Latina will leave the Senate Republican office later this month to become chief of staff to New Britain Mayor Erin Stewart. Latina is a former reporter who first worked in politics on Linda McMahon’s 2010 U.S. Senate race.

Latina was elected to Wethersfield’s board of education in 2013. This week she claim a seat on the town council.

Latina replaces John Healey, the Farmington Republican who made a memorable appearance in an FBI video played at the 2013 trial of a Democratic campaign operative.