{"id":409560,"date":"2010-03-09T12:22:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T17:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.73408"},"modified":"2010-03-09T18:29:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T23:29:45","slug":"greenwich-democratic-town-chairman-dies-in-single-car-accident-dave-roberson-42-returning-from-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/409560","title":{"rendered":"Greenwich Democratic Town Chairman Dies In Single-Car Accident; Dave Roberson, 42, Returning From Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chairman of the Greenwich Democratic Town Committee has died following a single-car accident on the Post Road in the Riverside section of Greenwich.<\/p>\n<p>David Roberson, 42, had been returning Monday night from a meeting of the Representative Town Meeting, a large body of 230 elected citizens&nbsp;who set policy in Greenwich. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Roberson was well known among politicians in town.<\/p>\n<p>The Greenwich Time has details at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenwichtime.com\/news\/article\/Town-DTC-chairman-David-Roberson-killed-in-car-397920.php\">http:\/\/www.greenwichtime.com\/news\/article\/Town-DTC-chairman-David-Roberson-killed-in-car-397920.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Longtime Greenwich resident Ned Lamont, who is running for governor, said, &#8220;Dave Roberson was a friend, a colleague and a tireless worker.&nbsp; He was a joyous and loyal person who was intensely committed to his ideals and the causes he believed in.&nbsp; My thoughts and prayers go out to Dave&#8217;s mother, Charlene, and the rest of his family.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>        Attorney General&nbsp;Richard Blumenthal, a Greenwich Democrat who is running for the U.S. Senate, said, &#8220;David Roberson demonstrated extraordinary dedication and courage as a public servant and political leader, and I will deeply miss his leadership as well as his friendship. He could always be trusted for vision and energy, as well as judgment and devotion to integrity and the public interest. I am heartbroken by his untimely and tragic passing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chairman of the Greenwich Democratic Town Committee has died following a single-car accident on the Post Road in the Riverside section of Greenwich. David Roberson, 42, had been returning Monday night from a meeting of the Representative Town Meeting, a large body of 230 elected citizens&nbsp;who set policy in Greenwich. A graduate of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409560","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\/4001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}