By Elizabeth Barhydt

Laura Kostin is back on the ballot, and she got there the hard way — by collecting 568 signatures, five percent of registered Democrats in Greenwich, after the Democratic Town Committee declined to endorse her for a second term on the Board of Education. The process was affirming. “I feel like I was nominated by our community of Democrats, not a committee who thinks they have a right to decide who can run and who can’t,” she said. “Anyone qualified, with the time and skills to donate should be able to run for office without some committee telling them, ‘No” or “Go wait your turn.’”

“I was surprised they did not endorse me,” she said in an interview, her voice calm but firm. “But I will tell you in complete and total honesty, the way that I vote is really with the stu

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