From Linda Conner Lambeck, CT Post
Changes are coming once again to the city’s sometimes volatile school board with four new members set to join the nine-member panel in December.
The winners include Dennis Bradley, a local attorney, who ran on the Democrat and Working Families Party lines and got 11,961 votes total.He was followed closely by Ben Walker, a Greenwich music teacher, with 11,320 votes, Maria Pereira with 10,792 votes and Republican Kevin McSpirit, with 3,536 votes.
Full story here.
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Another Republican on the BOE is very good news!
We’ll see how this group works together. Hopeful for the best, but based on election day, it appears the newly elected Democratic slate has some issues already. On election day, a CT Post reporter tweeted out a picture of a promo card that had Maria supporting Ben Walker and Karen Jackson, and not Dennis, who was part of the slate she originally picked. Let’s hope this is not a sign of what’s to come.
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The palm card promoting Jackson instead of Bradley is a strategy to help the weaker candidate. Typically a cross-endorsed candidate has enough support to get their votes. Recent examples include Bradley, Baker (BOE), and Malloy. All three were the top vote getters.
Eric–there were four spots open, why not just promote all four on the same card? This made it appear only three of the four were being supported. Did not help anyway since Jackson still lost.
You could only vote for three. Having four candidates would muddy the water, so to speak. Bradley was popular enough to get in without help. Yes, she came in last place.
I see–does not make sense if four spots open, only vote for three. I know other towns where you voted based on spots available. Thanks.