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Nailah and Chaz Brackeen.
As politicians across the state cheered at the end of an often-bitter campaign season, Westville Alder Darryl Brackeen Jr. and his wife Chaz celebrated the beginning of something sweeter this Election Day: a new life born into his family.
Baby Nailah was born to the Brackeens shortly after midnight on Nov. 8.
“Here Ye! Here Ye! Announcing the arrival of our 3rd Princess, Nailah Brackeen,” Brackeen wrote on his personal Facebook page Tuesday morning. “Our ELECTION DAY baby! November 8th, at 12:33am. Her name means a successful beautiful woman who is an attainer and a go-getter. She literally came out ready to go take on the world. #millenialdaddydiaries #teambrackeen #babybrackeenx3 (sounds like ny-la)”
While the data pool is too small to yield definite conclusions, New Haven alders’ newborns seem disproportionately likely to arrive in the world amid a flurry of last minute get-out-the-vote efforts, “I voted” stickers, and nail-biting ballot counts.
Nailah is the second child of a New Haven alder in just three years to be born on Election Day. In 2019, Wooster Square/Mill River Alder Ellen Cupo was elected to office on the same day that she gave birth to her son, Hunter.