Status Quo Ante

Well, the winds of change swept across the country yesterday, but they totally bypassed Greenwich. It's a good thing the Author Babe is winging her way to sunny Scottsdale at this moment, as the rain is pouring down and the candidates for whom she worked so hard have all been defeated. Let's hope she returns refreshed and recharged for whatever challenges await her next.

As predicted, Skippy Snickerson made short work of Frank Farricker, outpolling him by a 3 to 2 margin. Put another way, he pulled 50% more votes than FF, so it wasn't even close. By contrast, Ed Krumeich lost by a mere handful of votes in an election that only ended at 1:15 AM this morning as the last of the absentee ballots were counted by the clerks with the green eyeshades. That one really could have gone either way, but Ed had an uphill fight against the gerrymandering that took place years ago to carve out an illogical but putatively "safe" district for the Republican party. So now we have two more years of the "Doll", with her appalling voting record on environmental issues and her giggly school-girlish demeanor. Did your scribe tell you he received a postcard from the Doll the other day with a little heart drawn next to her signature? There's never an airline sickness bag around when you need one....

So life goes on as usual in this town, though down in Washington old Rummy has decided not to stay the course. So perhaps Ned Lamont's message did get through, though his candidacy never really took off after his August primary victory. Was it worth all the millions of his personal money that he poured into his campaign? I think Ned would probably say "yes". And he certainly generated some excitement around here for a while. Even though it's business as usual, on the surface at least, things have changed in a subtle way, and perhaps those winds of change didn't totally bypass Greenwich after all.