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NORWALK, Conn. The face of the Norwalk Democratic party suddenly changed, with the election of Marc Bradley as the new Democratic Town Committee chair. He promised to rebuild the party, which has suffered eroding support for its municipal candidates. Back in 2001, it held the mayor's office and all of the Common Council seats. The party also has financial woes. Debts incurred during the 2009 election are still not paid.
The vote was nearly unanimous. Bobby Burgess and Joe Newell from District B abstained. Some party members think that that Bradley shouldn't be choosing sides in the Democratic gubernatorial primary (he's working for Lamont). Bradley's response: "We're Democrats, we're here to elect Democrats...We haven't done a very good job of electing Democrats the last two years."
His first order of new business was the sad state of the party's website and lack of participation in social media. Blackberries and iPhones were all over the meeting, You can almost see that tweets and Facebook updates will soon follow.
Also elected was Brenda Penn Williams as Vice Chair, Al Aymes as Recording Secretary, Peter Thor as Treasurer, Stuart Wells as Corresponding Secretary and Erik Anderson as Assistant Treasurer. Anderson, Aymes, Thor and Wells were re-elected to posts they had served in previously. No vote was taken on assistant Vice Chair.
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