Newsletter Volume 3 • Number 23
All our elected officials should represent us accordingly
The results are in. We are proud that Congressman Jim Himes, Senator Chris Murphy, and state representatives Steve Meskers and Hector Arzeno will be returning to elective office. We applaud all of our candidates for their honest, fact-based campaigns.
Our residents convincingly preferred Harris/Walz
We thank our Greenwich neighbors who turned out in record numbers—81.4%—to cast their votes, and their strong support for the Harris/Walz team, which won 57% to Trump’s 41% in Greenwich. And we are pleased that the referendum question to increase access to absentee ballots has passed.
We did not prevail in every respect, but this is the nature of democracy. The voters have spoken. We will not be claiming the election was rigged, or challenging the outcome in court. We will not try to stop the certification in Congress, nor demand that state secretaries find us a certain number of votes. We will not lead an insurrection on our Capitol nor spread baseless claims that we won.
We will not let MAGA force an extremist agenda here.
Our work is not done here. There will be few checks on a second Trump presidency. The Supreme Court he selected has ruled that presidents are immune from prosecution for actions taken in the course of their term. The Senate is in the hands of Trump loyalists and the House remains to be seen. The future of civil service, climate goals, treaties with allies, the social safety net, prices on foreign goods, womens’ health care, political revenge, payoffs for billionaires—all may be in play over the coming years.
So it is up to our state legislators to provide the necessary checks and balances. Senator Fazio and representative-elect Tina Courpas, you claimed you support reproductive freedom and making our communities safe. We are looking to you to be part of the firewall to protect our human rights. You promised to be bipartisan and to represent all of Greenwich. We hope you will work closely with Representatives Meskers and Arzeno to continue supporting our 36% of high needs public school children, our school facilities, and the families here who get up each day to go to work, but who aren’t sure if they’ll be able to make ends meet, or afford a home. As a community, we need improvements to traffic and pedestrian access, not just filibusters against undesirable development.
In closing this electoral season, we channel Vice President Kamala Harris, who gave the concession speech yesterday that Trump never did in 2020. “While I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign. The fight for freedom, for opportunity, for fairness, and the dignity of all people. A fight for the ideals at the heart of our nation, the ideals that reflect America at our best. That is a fight I will never give up.”
Democrats in Greenwich will continue to make our community a more perfect union. Together with unaffiliated voters, and, yes, Republicans, we can do even more. We are just getting started.
| Volume 3, Number 23 • November 7, 2024 |
| Paid for by the Greenwich Democratic Town Committee. |
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