By MARCUS HARUN,
The Hartford Courant
1:17 a.m. EST, January 11, 2013
Art Linares, a Cuban-American and one of the youngest members of the General Assembly, has come to Hartford with an ambitious agenda: finding agreement between Democrats and Republicans.
The 24-year-old Republican from Westbrook is also one of the state’s first two Latino state senators. He and Andres Ayala, Jr., a Bridgeport Democrat who won election in November, are part of a growing national movement of Hispanic candidates running for office.