Submitted by Victoria Martin Young, Old Greenwich
When we elect someone to public office, we are deciding whose judgment we trust, who will listen when we disagree, and who will remember why we sent them there in the first place.
I have known Jill Oberlander for many years, and I have campaigned for her more than once. Jill is the person you want in the room when a hard decision has to be made. She does her homework. She listens. She asks questions (lots of them) because she wants to understand the details before she reaches a conclusion. And she isn’t afraid to question an assumption, even one that has gone unchallenged for years.
Governing is rarely as simple as campaign rhetoric makes it sound. Projects run into obstacles, priorities shift, and what one neighborhood needs is not always what the next one needs. Good leaders sort through all of it, make a decision, and then explain that decision honestly. Jill has been doing exactly that for years.
She served Greenwich as the first Democratic chair of the Board of Estimate and Taxation, then went on to serve on the Board of Selectmen and the Representative Town Meeting. That experience gave her something no one can manufacture on the campaign trail: a real understanding of how government actually works.
Just as important, Jill wants to hear from people who see things differently. You can disagree with Jill and still have a genuine conversation with her, and you will walk away feeling heard. She doesn’t confuse conviction with certainty, and she treats every resident’s concern as worth her time, whether or not that person voted for her.
I know Jill, and I know she will work with anyone, on either side of the aisle, who wants to get things done, while never forgetting that her first responsibility is to the people of Greenwich, Stamford, and New Canaan.
I will vote for Jill Oberlander for State Senate, and I hope you will join me.
Victoria Martin Young
Old Greenwich, CT
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