Suzio defeats Bruenn in special election By: Dan Ivers and Mary Ellen Godin, Record-Journal staff | Posted: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 11:51 pm | 6 comments Online Features Links Talk About It MERIDEN - It took four tries, but Leonard F. Suzio easily won the 13th District state Senate seat Tuesday over Thomas E. Bruenn in what Suzio described as an election to return Connecticut to the people. Early in the night, Suzio, a Republican, was cautiously optimistic as he sat at a desk at his campaign's East Main Street headquarters. He had lost races to former Sen. Thomas P....