David S. Cassetti

David S. Cassetti is the 29th and current Mayor of Ansonia, Connecticut. Cassetti, a local businessman, ran for Mayor in 2013 and defeated incumbent Democrat James DellaVolpe who was running for his 8th term in office.
Cassetti was sworn in for a second term in November, 2015 after defeating Democrat Edward J. Adamowski in the election by a tally of 3,095 votes to 803
Cassetti was sworn in for a third term in November, 2017 after defeating Democrat Tarek Raslan in the election by a tally of 2,959 votes to 1,162.
Personal
In 1979, Cassetti graduated from Ansonia's Emmett O'Brien Technical High School, and is the only mayor to have done so.

Cassetti was a youth boxing champion. He won the Connecticut Amateur Middleweight title in 1982 and the New England Amateur Middleweight title in 1983. He retired with a 49-6 record.
Positions
Since taking office in 2013, one of Cassetti's primary focuses has been the revitalization of Ansonia. This has included reclaiming abandoned factories, working with other officials such as US Senator Chris Murphy and the EPA to clean up toxic brownfields, and new construction to revitalize the downtown.
In 2018, Cassetti was quoted in the New York Times that “We need to improve rail service, not cut it if the end goal is to improve the towns and cities in this state", when state officials threatened to cut funding to Metro-North due to Connecticut's financial crisis.
In 2018, Cassetti has been at the center of a lawsuit over an alleged $600,000 reduction in the Board of Education's budget.

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