Forget (for now) donating to the blog: here’s a Greenwich resident who really needs your help

The blog donation/fund raiser exceeded my expectations, with 66 readers sending contributions totalling around $4,400.00. The blog will continue on, and the MLS expenses have been paid. Individual thank yous will be sent out over the next day (PayPal makes it incredibly labor intensive to dig out email addresses) but thank you all, now.

In the meantime, the New York Post has just published a state-by-state list of each state’s richest person, and although it’s gratifying to see that Steve Cohen has brought the state title home to Greenwich, I feel for him, and for the town: a mere $21.3 billion, which is practically nothing compared to the top dogs like Elon, the Zuck, and Warren. Hell, even the loathsome Mike Bloomberg’s amassed $105 billion.

It’s not as though Mr. Cohen needs more money to live on, or run a flailing baseball team, but pride, man, pride of place! Do we want to see Greenwich holding such a lowly rung on the ladder of success? I think not, and I’m sure Cohen doesn’t either. Searching the net, I can’t find a specific fund raising site for the man, but we here at FWIW will be glad to serve as his collection agent and pass it on. A billion here, a billion there, and it can be done. So let’s do it; let’s get the man up to at least 2nd place!

Here’s the Post article:

These are the richest people in every state in the country

This group of filthy-rich Americans — entrepreneurs, investors and heirs — are the wealthiest people in every state and are worth a staggering $2 trillion combined, according to Forbes.

That’s $400 billion more than the combined worth of last year’s titleholders.

At the top of the 54-person list — some states had ties — is Elon Musk of Texas, worth $388 billion. The Tesla and SpaceX founder is the richest man in the world.

Elon Musk is the wealthiest in America, followed by Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg. Michael Bloomberg is the richest New Yorker.Donna Grace/NY Post Design

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, based in Florida, was No. 2 with a net worth of $206 billion. Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg of California, worth $189 billion, came in third.