Well...two more days before we find out if there will be a Democratic Town Committee primary in March. True to their usual game plan, none of the challenging slates have as yet handed in any petitions...their regular modus operandi is to wait until the final minutes.I'm not sure what this is supposed to gain them...everyone knows they had enough time to get their signatures (and I'm confident that they did.) But that's how they play. (Tuesday, 01/26 3:55pm) -- Word is in that the challenging slate in the 9th District returned about 140 signatures (they need 89). So, it's a safe bet that at least this District has qualified for a primary.
One district that might have some problems is the 8th. Apparently, one of the authorizing signatures for the challengers wasn't original...the putative candidate faxed his authorization in. As a result, this slate couldn't get their petitions until today at the earliest.
Now, I'm aware that the Registrar relied on the instructions from Hartford on this issue. But it seems to me that this town is small enough that everyone knows that this candidate was going to run. Maybe, a better (and fairer) solution would have been to issue the petitions with the warning that no signatures would be counted if the original wasn't received by the deadline. Sometimes "legal" isn't the same as "right".
But..."fair" and "West Haven politics" have always been antitheses of each other...and so more ill feelings have been generated.
(Sigh!)
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