Politicians love to display their bi-partisanship by claiming that their wives or best friends are members of another party, but that option has been forsaken by the family of Oz Griebel, writes the Courant’s Rinker Buck.
A Simsbury resident and president of the MetroHartford Alliance, Griebel is expected this week to join the growing field of Republican aspirants for governor.
But according to Buck, this has apparently raised some troubling identity issues in the Griebel household, where wife Kirsten Griebel was a registered Democrat and the founder of the Simsbury Citizens First independent political party. The two Griebel children were either not registered to vote or registered as unaffiliated.
It’s now All in the Family again at the Griebels. Last week, the Simsbury registrar of voters confirmed, Kirsten and her two children appeared at Town Hall and registered as Republicans, just in time to appear as a united front once Griebel declares for the governorship.