Showdown in Greenwich

This union operative from AFSCME -that’s the Association of State, County, Federal and Municipal Employees -wins the early-bird prize.

He snagged a prime spot for Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s highly-anticipated listening tour stop in Greenwich tonight.

Expect fireworks between the public sector workers and the old guard Greenwich GOP over Malloy’s controversial budget proposal, which introduces $1.5 billion in new taxes to help close a $3.2 billion deficit.

The universal health care lobby is here, as well as Greenwich Hospital president and chief executive Frank Corvino, who says that a plan to tax hospital income could cost his facility $13 million.

This photo was taken two hours before the forum.

Neil Vigdor