Ayana Taylor Redux: Windsor Democrat seeks rematch with wounded McCrory in 2nd Senate District.

It will be a different campaign this time. Ayana Taylor, a popular Windsor Democrat, has formed a campaign committee to seek the Democratic nomination in the 2nd Senate District. Taylor challenged incumbent Democrat Dough McCrory for the party’s nomination in 2024, losing to him 3,673 to 1,965. Shelley Davis, a late entry into the contest, won 525 votes.

Taylor won the portion of Windsor in the district. McCrory took the parts of Hartford and Bloomfield that comprise the rest of the district by wide margins in each.

McCory, who served in the House before winning a special election to the Senate in 2017, appears to be under some unwelcome scrutiny by federal criminal investigators who served subpoenas for documents related to McCrory’s role in obtaining funding for non-profit organizations in the district he represents. Of particular interest, the subpoenas indicate, are the grants and fees of $1.7 million from the Blue Hills Civic Association to McCrory friend and associate Sonserae Cicero-Hamlin.

A 2023 fraudulent wire transfer from Blue Hills Civic Association to a grant recipient required an intervention by the FBI and the law enforcement agency’s interest became more intense in the months that followed.

Published December 31, 2025.