Tuesday's primary was an overwhelming success for Portia Bordelon. Despite the efforts of the Groton Democratic Town Committee chair and vice chair, Portia knocked on doors and worked her butt off to get the highest votes, followed in second by the only candidate to support her: Aundré Bumgardner. The primary makes it perfectly clear: leadership does not know what the party faithful want.

Conrad Heede, incumbent town councilor and town committee chair came in a distant last place. It seems that the party has spoken: they want Heede off the Town Council, but perhaps more than that.

Seeing the failure of leadership, the chair and vice chair should apologize and resign. As I described in my previous letter to The Day, leadership put their thumbs on the scale to force Portia out, perhaps knowing they could not do so through democratic means.

I urge registered Democrats to come to the January town committee meeting and elect a new chair and vice chair, ones who actually have a finger on the pulse of what the town wants and will not use their position of power in the party to try and maintain local political power.

Dane Stevenson

Groton