Liberals in Norwalk must be absolutely thrilled with this one, but it seems that Norwalk Democrats have managed to get past the circular firing squad and tap a new chair who just happened to be a Republican up till last year. And who says the Democratic party isn’t the big tent? These things tend to work out nicely btw, Democrats who turned Republican went on to become Governor of California and then President of the United States. I’m referring to Ronald Regan of course. And then there’s Republican turned Democrat who is running for president now, that would be Hillary Clinton. And let’s not forget former Democrat turned Republican turned unaffilate, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg. So congrats to newly appointed Democratic Town Committee chair Gail Wall.
I’m sure that Mike Coffey, Fred Bondi, Carvin Hilliard, Phylis Bolden and Herb Grant, all long accused of being Republicans at various points are all chuckling at this turn of events. Of course local Republicans are probably chuckling too. Nothing like watching your political opposition draft a rookie to head up the political apparatus.
I can’t wait for the first time a local Dem utters something along the lines of loyal Democrats shouldn’t be working with Republicans. The Hour failed to capitalize on that irony by calling up Bill Krummel for a quote. Just think of the merriment involved there, as Bill, “Democracy has ended” Krummel will now have to re-explain why having Republicans sit as chairs of common council committees is a bad thing. After acknowledging that a former Republican is now his party chair. Forget worrying about bipartisan Bill, you’ve got yourself unipartisanship to worry about.
Well, maybe this will be the dawn of a new era where local political flunkies focus on issues rather than party labels. Who knows.
