The Guilford Courier’s reporting on the Nov. 7 election in Guilford failed to acknowledge why the Republican elephant was not in the room. Fielding Republican candidates in a town of Democrats has now become a waste of time and money with little or no hope of winning a seat at the table.

The absence of Republicans on the ballot was engineered by a Democratic Party that, despite its name, is anything but democratic. When the coalition of Democrats and faux Independents fabricated its A + C Board of Education (BOE) ticket in 2021, it destroyed the long-established minority representation rule established by state law (CGS § 9-167a) in 1959 and any sense of comity that once existed in Guilford. It replaced the true minority party with a party so small that it can only be propped up with spare Democrat votes. Thus, the BOE continues to be characterized by a groupthink that provides unquestioned cover for illegal actions by a radical superintendent wedded to the racist ideology of Ibram Kendi.

This cynical manipulation of the election process has all the earmarks of Bill Bloss, who also defended the mailing of pre-signed absentee ballot applications to voters in 2021, a violation of state law, and could not happened without the assent of First Selectman Matt Hoey, BOE Chair Katie Balestracci, and the rest of the cabal.

By their actions, Democrats substituted a party with 300 registered voters for a party of 3,371 registered voters—10 times the number! It not only marginalized the views of Republican voters but also 6,112 unaffiliated voters who were left with no alternative choices on Election Day. How is this different from totalitarian regimes that prohibit opposition parties?

Guilford is beautiful on the outside but has a dark underbelly that reflects badly on those who govern it.

Kendall Svengalis

Guilford