Will Fred DeCaro and his allies win their fight to allow dark money foundations into our elections?
/One reader assures us that the RTM will never do it, while others point out the progressive shift leftward we’re seen in that formerly non-partisan governing body. I’m inclined to side with the latter.
To begin with, we have the far-left Invisible Ladies of Greenwich to contend with. I don’t know how many of them are still on the RTM after winning 100 seats out of 230 in the 2018 elections — some have surely grown bored with our unwieldy system of government (God knows I did after just two terms) and drifted into new areas of concern, like pressuring our Board of Ed to institute a curriculum that tells the history of transgender Ukrainian groomers and their role in the founding of this country, but most of them are still there, and will provide a solid bloc of votes for the DeCaro plan.
Add in the openly declared Democrats, and it doesn’t seem improbable that the town’s going to lose this one.
And that’s not a good thing. The groups behind this “grant” include the usual suspects like Mark Zuckerberg, George Soros, and the “New Venture Fund”, a child of the Swiss billionaire Hanjorg Wyss, whose Wyss Foundation has poured hundreds of millions of dollars to throw elections to the Democrats.
If Steve Cohen wants to donate $5 million towards construction of the new Eastern Civic Center and seed a few Mets into our Little League teams, God bless him: it’s off to Williamsburg for our Greenwich boys! If a lefty organization run by a man who was the supervisor of elections for Cook County (!) for 12 years offers us $500,000 as a way to get at our voting procedures, I say keep the Hell away.
Will the dark forces prevail? We’ll find out on Tuesday.