NEW: John Lombardi will Run for State Rep. in District 8

NEW: John Lombardi will Run for State Rep. in District 8

Former Providence Mayor and City Council President John Lombardi will run for the House seat in Federal Hill, GoLocalProv has learned.

Lombardi’s official announcement is expected to come next week.

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The three-way Democratic primary for District 8 will include Lombardi, progressive activist Libby Kimzey and incumbent Mike Tarro, who has the support of House Speaker Gordon Fox.

Lombardi ran in a four-way Democratic primary for Mayor in 2010, finishing the second to Angel Taveras. The lifelong Federal Hill resident has $14,167.71 in his campaign account.

Kimzey, who counts both the Chairperson and the Executive Director of the Providence Democratic city Committee as supporters, has $12,555.53 in her account, while Tarro has $6,810.24.

In recent weeks, there had been some question as to whether Tarro would seek reelection, but the first-term Democrat confirmed his plans to run earlier this week.

“I am definitely a candidate for reelection and always have been,” Tarro told GoLocalProv.