{"id":231944,"date":"2010-01-25T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T18:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.70372"},"modified":"2010-01-25T13:45:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T18:45:28","slug":"the-griebels-go-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/231944","title":{"rendered":"The Griebels go GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 0.8em\">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&#8217;s Rinker Buck.<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 0.8em\"><\/font><\/font><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 0.8em\">A Simsbury resident and president of the MetroHartford Alliance, Griebel is expected this week to join the growing field of Republican aspirants for governor.<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 0.8em\"><\/font><\/font><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 0.8em\">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.<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 0.8em\"><\/font><\/font><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 0.8em\">It&#8217;s now All in the Family again at the Griebels. Last week, the Simsbury registrar of voters<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>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.<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s Rinker Buck. &nbsp; A Simsbury resident and president of the MetroHartford Alliance, Griebel is expected this week to join the growing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}