Another Republican is entering the race for the 5th Congressional District nomination.  Hearst Connecticut Media reports that 37-year old Ryan Meehan, a Litchfield resident and a businessman, is filing paperwork this week.  The West Point and UConn grad grew up in Bethlehem.  He is a veteran who completed two tours in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2012, achieving the rank of captain. Meehan has taken a leave of absence from his role as director of Operations for Unison Energy to run for Congress. 

He and others are looking to challenge freshman Democrat Jahana Hayes. 

The other candidates in the GOP race are former assistant U.S. attorney David Xavier Sullivan of New Fairfield, New Britain meter technician Ruben Rodriguez, and Robert Hyde, a public relations representative who recently came under fire for a sexually explicit tweet about Kamala Harris dropping out of the Democratic Presidential race.