It's Republican primary day in (some parts) of Greenwich, old guard vs new

armed with their greenwich invisible employers’ proxies and instructions, belle haven domestics wait to vote

(Apology: in trying to add a simple edit to this post I managed to change its time of publication and, worse, lose the original comments. I found one,and have restored it, I’ll add others if I can.)

The traditional, gin & tonic Republicans seek to oust the rebels who’ve taken over the RTC and made things so uncivil. My heart’s with the revolutionaries, because the time for polite disagreements with Democrats has passed; the ladies of Greenwich Invisible made sure of that when they turned local politics national by running a slate of RTM candidates on a purely anti-Trump agenda in 2020 and placed 100+ of their members on the formerly bipartisan RTM. They started it; let’s finish it. The Republicans who’ve traditionally run the town with their Democrat friends have always seemed to espouse a policy of “we agree with your positions and goals, but let’s get there more slowly”. Well, I don’t agree with the Democrats’ goals, and I don’t want to get there, slowly or otherwise.

That said, there are some excellent people on the Tory side, people like Riverside’s Andy Duus, who I respect tremendously, and who is by no one’s definition a “go along to get along” Republican. His opposition to the present RTC leadership carries great weight with me, and gives me pause.

Pause, but ultimately, I side with the disrupters — it’s been business as usual for too long in Greenwich, and disruption is exactly what is called for. How cozy has the relationship between Greenwich Democrats and Republicans been? The fact that the Democrats have endorsed the entire slate of the Grand Old Guard’s candidates says it all.

Here are the rebels: