Category: GDTC Newsletters

Newsletter Volume 1 • Number 48 Weekly Newsletter Delivery For their annual Lincoln-Reagan fundraising dinner, the Greenwich Republican Party (RTC) has invited a long-shot presidential candidate who promises to go “farther than Trump” in carrying out the same dangerous, bull-in-a-china-shop agenda.  Vivek Ramaswamy has big ideas for remaking America –  the constitution and laws be…

Newsletter Volume 1 • Number 47 Weekly Newsletter Delivery It may be that local Republican leaders are running out of communities to attack, so they’re aiming for one group anyone with an ounce of common sense wouldn’t touch – Greenwich moms. To be fair, they’re lashing out at the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) and the…

Newsletter Volume 1 • Number 46 Weekly Newsletter Delivery Connecticut legislators eschew partisan bickering and act on gun violence prevention, reproductive freedom, health care access, cutting fees to consumers and more. In a week where Republican-led states continued to chip away at individual freedoms, the CT legislative assembly took a different tack, passing bills to…

Newsletter Volume 1 • Number 45 Weekly Newsletter Delivery When the Representative Town Meeting approved the town budget last week, that marked the end of an annual ritual, a long and torturous one this time, but for none more so than the Board of Estimate and Taxation (BET). As our town finance board, members of…

Newsletter Volume 1 • Number 44 Weekly Newsletter Delivery It was an eye-opening budget season that just concluded, with the Central Middle School (CMS) construction plans thrown into disarray and potentially delayed. Call it a success for the Board of Estimate and Taxation’s Republicans who threw everything they could at the project from its inception. …

Newsletter Volume 1 • Number 43 Weekly Newsletter Delivery In early September 2021, rainfall from Hurricane Ida sent a roiling flash flood into Pemberwick. Cars floated in garages, water inundated boilers and furnaces, muck washed away family belongings, and residents rushed to higher ground to escape the rising torrent. Flooding in the Pemberwick section of…

Newsletter Volume 1 • Number 42 Subscribe to Newsletter Ever since Ronald Reagan’s experiment with trickle down economics created a yawning budget deficit that doomed Greenwich’s own George “No New Taxes” Bush’s re-election bid, Republicans nationwide have abandoned responsible budgeting. The story since has been one of Republican administrations blowing up the federal deficit by…

Newsletter Volume 1 • Number 41 Subscribe to the Newsletter! As a wealthy and highly educated community, situated along a coastline, you’d think Greenwich would be a leader in efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and harden our town against flooding. But you’d be wrong. Even as the world’s most authoritative body on the science…

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Newsletter Volume 1 • Number 40 Weekly Newsletter Delivery If there was any doubt about what Greenwich’s Republican-controlled Board of Estimate and Taxation (BET) values, it was obliterated Tuesday, when their members rammed through a town budget that disregards school kids, families, public safety, and smart municipal planning. On party line votes, Republicans made a…