Frend Bondi survived the threat of not getting a nomination out of his district, but he will be the at-large candidate. As expected Kevin Poruban and Laurel Lindstrom are the in district candidates. There were no other names put forward, and 13 people were at the meeting, although 1 person was new and only at their first meeting.

The Republican candidates will be going through a similar process to nominate their candidates from District C, and I’ll post that info as soon as I’ve confirmed it. In the running at David Park, and incumbents Joanne Romano (at large) and Nick Kydes.

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It’s hard to believe that public officials would make a decision on legislation based on a whisper campaign by a handful of Quinipiac professors who were hired by the American Petroleum Industry, but that is apparently what happened. Fortunately State Rep William Tong-D Stamford is hoping mad about it. And so should we the people.

Closer to home we have the likes of Rick Fuller on the BOE repeatedly intoning the “Trust the professionals” line when it came to asking questions of the Dr. Evil Sal Corda and Stuart Opdahl’s faith based budget. If we wanted a rubber stamp as an official we could dispense with elections and trot on over to Staples, click the easy button and get a real one, made in china, for $1.59. But I digress.

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Is Norwalk the birthplace of the UNIVAC?

From The Writer’s Almanac for June 13th:

“It was on this day in 1951 that the world’s first commercially produced electronic digital computer was unveiled, known as the UNIVAC. It weighed eight tons, used 5,000 vacuum tubes and cost a quarter-million dollars. But it could perform a thousand calculations per second, the fastest rate in the world at the time. The first one was bought by the U.S. Census Bureau.

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