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- Published on Friday, 02 December 2011 11:18
- Written by Ronald Eleveld
Some 30 years ago Windsor was “punished” for backing the wrong Democrat in a statewide race according to the Chair of the Democratic Town Committee Mr. Canty. The result was that Windsor was split into three districts where Windsor did not hold a majority of the voters in any district. For 2012 and the next ten years the punishment just got WORSE!, going from the frying pan into the fire.
Windsor today consists of three districts. The 15th Windsor-Bloomfield currently represented by David Baram, the 60th Windsor-Windsor Locks represented by Peggy Sayers, and the 61st Windsor-East Granby-Suffield represented by Elaine O’Brien, all Democrats. The majority of the voters and the representatives come from the underlined towns.
Today the House District maps became available. We no longer have 3 districts. We now have FOUR districts. Yes I said 4! The aforementioned districts are made up of the same communities PLUS the 5th House District consisting of Northern Hartford and Southern Windsor currently represented by Marie Lopez Kirkley-Bey.
Wow, 3 districts was bad, but 4! Was this payback for backing the wrong Democrats again? You might remember the Windsor Democrats ran candidates in primary challenges against Rep. Baram and Sayers, both challengers losing. The majority of the 5th district is supposed to be Windsor voters. We are now connected with voters that do not arguably have the same interests as Windsor’s voters. The interests of Windsor are not often the same as Hartford.
As a member of the Town Council we voted at the beginning of this year to ask and demand that Windsor have at least one singular Windsor only Representative District. That is one district made up of only Windsor Residents within the confines of Windsor borders. A simple and reasonable request for the First Town in Connecticut.
The Town of Windsor should consider action to put aside this abomination of districting and demand again a singular home grown district as the Town council wanted in January of 2011 and as Connecticut’s oldest Town deserves.
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