League of Women voters Senatorial Debate in Berlin, October 16, 2008: Between Senator Donald DeFronzo and Former Senator Thomas Bozek:
Q Do You support the state conventional convention?
Senator DeFronzo Our Constitution has been amended thirty times and we as voters must give our full examination in our making this important decision for our state’s future. Former Senator Bozek in contrast stated it would give the newspapers print stories on death penalty issues, gay rights but it is worth trying.
The next question was regarding state spending with former Senator Bozek expressing the state is currently 300 million dollars in the red and that he would propose state employee lay offs just like Massachusetts is currently doing. Senator DeFronzo stated that we are 300 million dollars in the red heading for a 700 million dollar deficit and 1.3 Billion dollars by the end of next year. He continued by saying we can’t cut across the board and cautioned that we have to identify the service needs of core services such as aid for providing heat and children in need of aid. We have to seek additional taxes from businesses and possibly look into placing tolls on our state roads. But to cut expenses across the board the senator said no.
Mass transportation question was answered by former Senator Bozek: the claimed public use hasn’t been accepted by the general public and me. Senator DeFronzo was in support for mass transit and indicated that the Gov. eliminated l4 million from the state budget for mass transit with Former Senator Bozek stating l4 million is nothing. Senator Defronzo countered that mass transit would help the financial growth for Berlin, Meriden and all the towns throughout our state.
The question would they support new housing developments? Senator DeFronzo stated he had worked with the local officials in defeating a complex that was proposed in Berlin after approval by its local zoning board. Former Senator Bozek immediately stated that Berlin cannot support this type of housing and suggested Safe Home rule be strengthened for local control.
Changes in Medicare coverage’s? Senator Defronzo indicated that Medicare made changes on items to be covered by their changing the asset levels of the recipients and it will get worse in the future due to the economic conditions getting tighter. Bozek immediately made claims that when he was in the legislature he supported home care for the elderly seniors in place of convalescent hospital care which is much more expensive and continued by mentioning his supporting a bill that provided breast cancer care for women in our state and also his husky program for children.
Regionalization was a question asked for both to state how they stand on this issue with Senator Defronzo responding that we have to careful about regionalization cooperation because we don’t have county government so the cost would be much higher. Bozek countered with the effort of regionalization for water and sewerage including the handling of trash lowering our overall cost in doing so.
Question of school drop outs was waged to both candidates with Senator DeFronzo indicating that we do have kids at risk and we should get to the kids earlier with after school programs with Bozek countering that he had proposed while in the legislature a pilot program reformatory for girls and boys on a trial basis and that they would get weekend passes to go home and that proposal failed to get passed.
Frank, there must be something wrong with your camera? your buddy Bozek wasn't wearing a white sheet.
ReplyDeletenobody asked Bozek where he plans to build the low income housing in Berlin? You know, where he plans to export all the minorities form his neighborhood to.
ReplyDeleteIt would have been a much livelier debate had it been moderated by Dr. Marc Lamont Hill.
ReplyDeletewere there any of those people there?
ReplyDeleteIn answer to the anonymous question asking who from the republican party attend the senatorial debate and my answer should be none but in reality Bozek being a registered democrat but the nominated candidate by the Republicans .
ReplyDeleteSo if my answer seems to be rather oblige or evasive I must confess by asking you was Bozek there as a Democrat or a Republican?
Mr. Smith, I don't think you get the true meaning about what Bozek means when he says "those people" but you probably need to be a racist to fully understand the meaning of those code words, and obviously you are not a racist.
ReplyDeleteI heard Bozek promised to send all the prisoners out of state. Did anyone ask Mr. Bozek why he wants to send the prisoners out of state. There are probably two competing reasons, knowing how hateful he seems to be, it is because most of the prisoners are minorities, and when you move them out of state, the majority of their families follow, so now for each prisoner you move, you get rid of an entire minority family. The other obvious reason is to break the unions, because it is a way to contract out union work to another state which may not even be unionized, and therefore eliminate union jobs.
ReplyDeleteAren't the corrections officers members of AFSCME Council 4 in New Britain? By wanting to eliminate correction officers jobs, it would appear that as a result, Bozek is working against the biggest labor union in what would be his district on the remote chance that he would win the election.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know Obama won the election. We still have freedom of speech until Obama abolishes that and silences any opposition. You will need to clear all comments through the Obama Propaganda Minestry beginning in January!
ReplyDeleteBy now, almost everybody living in New Britain knows Joe the Plumber.
ReplyDeleteJoe's name was mentioned about 15 times at the third Presidential Debate when Joe Wurzelbacher the Plumber from Toledo,Ohio questioned Senator Barack Obama at an Ohio campaign stop about Obama's tax plan.
Joe the Plumber wanted to know if Obama's tax plan would raise his taxes.
Senator Obama replied, It's not that I want to punish your success, I just want to make sure that everybody that is behind you, that they have a chance for success, too.
Mr Obama also stated I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody.
We think when you Spread the Wealth Around, it's good for the socialists agenda.
ReplyDeleteThis economic perspective Spread the Wealth Around, could have been expressed by any of history’s best-known socialists: Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Karl Marx or Adolf Hitler.
Thank heavens, it is also a perspective that has been discredited by the collapse of those nations that have adopted it.
Indeed, when you Spread the Wealth Around, no one has any incentive to create wealth - just send us that government check.
Why the heck and I going to work my butt off to create wealth if the government is only going to take it away from me and send it to someone who chooses not to work?
ReplyDeleteSuppose Obama wins the balloting on November 4th. Suppose that it is revealed that he is not a natural born citizen, or that there was massive election fraud, after the votes are certified by the individual states, but before the Electoral College meets. Now it is our understanding that the Electoral College electors can vote Obama POTUS anyway.
ReplyDeleteThe question is this: does the Supreme Court have any jurisdiction in this matter? specifically any jurisdiction before the inauguration? can the Supreme Court nullify an election for cause before the Electoral College meets? or after the Electoral College votes, but before the inauguration?
It is our understanding that the only way to remove an elected President or a sitting President is by impeachment, then it would be too late for the Court to intervene.
Therefore, if Obama is elected and installed he will serve unless the House brings articles of impeachment and the Senate votes to convict and remove him.
So, it it our understanding that Obama can be found guilty of election fraud, illegal fund raising, of not meeting the Constitutional requirements for POTUS, or anything else, but could still be installed and preside if he has a Congress that refuses to remove him.
Hail to the Chief?
Vote yes for the constitutional convention.
ReplyDeleteVote Yes to the Constitutional Convention.
ReplyDeleteIs it too late to take up Tomasso's offer to donate land to build a prison? Then all prisoners can be sent there, on the Plainville/New Britain border, abutting the Pinnacle Heights property. That should be good for business!!!!
A conventional convention should be held by our state government in order to have the people decide whether to limit the legislatures' powers.
ReplyDeleteThat has been in the minds of many of our voters. An East Hartford Senator has been known to say that this is my power to make the decisions for you.