You Wont Read This In The Greenwich Time.....Three Byram Candidates Show Up For Last Minute Special Greenwich Representative Town Meeting (RTM) Election For Greenwich Developer Jamie Wabba's District 4 RTM Seat.
Our Town Hall Insider Was Right Greenwich Police Officer Bozzuto Was One Of The Candidates. The Third Candidate Was Byram Resident John Hartwell.
But Influential "Greenwich Gossip" Blogger Bill Clark Won The Day.
Mr. Clark who, is semi - retired has lived in town for the past 30 years. Clark also spent 18 years on and off the RTM. Previously the the local citizen journalist and blogger had been a college teacher at Yale University.
Lately However, Mr. Clark has reinvented himself as a writer and has just published a novel.
Election runner up was Police Officer Bozzuto who was born and raised in Byram and currently works in the towns dispatch center. P/O Bozzuto is a volunteer fire fighter and was a Greenwich Fire Chief for eight years.
John Hartwell of late has been very outspoken on parks and recreation issues and is very concerned about beach policies.
Bill Clark will be representing Byram at the General RTM Meeting on January 20, 2009.
Apparently, there is going to be a second special election very soon, because Byram RTM Chairman Robert McKnight said that he has gotten Jamie and John Wabba both to send resignation emails to him. Mr. McKnight was had the email resignations for about three months, but Town of Greenwich Clerk Carmella Budkins has said the Wabba brothers must resign to her.
Last month McKnight was able to get Jamie Wabba to resign to the Town Clerk, but for some reason he has not been able to persuade John Wabba to also resign his legislative seat.
If McKnight can get John Wabba to obey his demand that a resignation letter must be sent to Town Clerk Budkis, then there will probably be another special election at the next Byram RTM meeting.
Further a sitting Byram legislator has indicated that he might be willing to resign to make room for either P/O Bozzuto or John Hartwell.
Two or three months from now there maybe a third Byram special election, because Robert McKnight says he wants to seek the resignation of longtime Byram RTM member and former Democratic First Selectman Candidate Felix Andreoni.
Mr. Andreoni's recent town cleaning contracts may not be so secure if Mr. McKnight is success full in pushing the Greenwich Democrat off of the RTM.
Greenwich Roundup will keep you posted about any more upcoming special elections on the Byram RTM.
One thing that should be noted is how classy Byram can be after an election. After the election all of the Byram legislators and candidates congratulated Mr. Clark on his victory. There were no hard feelings at all.
Moreover, Greenwich Roundup would like to be the first Greenwich Blogger to congratulate Bill Clark and to wish him well.
We know that Bill Clark will serve the taxpayers of Greenwich well.
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