ATWT – Part Deux

So there we are….tied up at 34-34 when Ms. Holloway (Prenzina that is) yells out “I wanna change my vote.” The place explodes in a cacophony of colloquial catcalls aimed at the presiding chair who staring out in a kinda “WTF am I doing here kinda way.” Welcome to Hartford politics Senor Arena.

“She can’t do that!”

“Let her do what she wants!”

Murmurs from all sides of the chamber until slick looking John Kennelly yells out that a re-vote is in order. This was too much for people to take, so you know what came next? That’s right…pizza…Democratic Pizza. As people consumed the capricious circles of cantankerous dough they also continued the stalking outside in the main hallway while the committee leadership tried to corral everyone inside for a re-vote. Both sides trying to gain that one extra vote to pull them over. Then Sargent at arms Clarinda Soldevila blew her menacing whistle and ordered everyone in and the re-voting began.

The voting took place as before with the exception of Madam Deputy Speaker stating her choice in the order called. For the second round Jean Holloway again passed. She did not vote at all in the first round and it became evident that her vote would be the tie-breaker if all held true. With everyone voting there were only two changes from round 1:

Clorinda Soldevila did not vote in round two and Prenzina Holloway voted for Olga…a shocker. Olga was the complainant in a February 2005 action against Ms. Holloway to the CT Elections Enforcement Division (link here) note: It’s interesting to see the very familiar names on the list of defendants in the Enforcement Divisions log.

With the score in doubt, Jean Holloway was up. The would-be Chair found herself in a perpendicular position of preposterous power. She was flanked by both Olga and Minnie up on the dais and, after maybe 20 seconds, she exclaims “Olga!”

The vote was noted and after everything was tallied at the bottom of the 3rd grade excel spreadsheet, the score was 35-33 for Olga. A celebratory yell was heard in the gallery and Olga made her 90 second speech.

No one thanked the pizza makers…freakin Democrats!