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Monday, March 23, 2009
FOXNews.com - Taxpayers Strike Back With 'Tea Parties' - Special Report w/ Bret Baier///Against the Stimulus Package
FOXNews.com - Taxpayers Strike Back With 'Tea Parties' - Special Report w/ Bret Baier // Against the Stimulus package.
4,000 people at one protest with more of them all over the country!
ReplyDeleteYou won't hear a word about that on the communist controlled networks like NBC, will you?
Sounds like the revolution to socialism is beginning!
I just heard on the radio that there were over 5,000 in Cincinatti, and 4,000 at another tea party in Orlando this weekend.
ReplyDeleteOne thing is certain, Americans are mad as hell at the attempt to make America a socialist country!
The Nationwide Tea Party comes to Connecticut. This is your chance to protest socialism in the country:
ReplyDeleteIn CT: Stamford Tea Party on Saturday March 28 at 10:00 AM at 96 Broad Street (Starbucks-Library location), the corner of Broad and Bedford. Bring your voice, a good attitude and a desire to have your views heard!
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ReplyDeleteNew Britain Herald �” watchdog or lapdog?
By Rick Guinness
Published: Monday, March 23, 2009 6:09 AM EDT
All eyes were on the New Britain Herald and the Bristol Press this past January when media mogul Michael Schroeder took over from Journal Register Corp.
“Finally!” I thought, “someone who can see the potential for profit in a newsroom driven by editor Marc Levy, a staunch traditionalist in the field of journalism and a true watchdog of government.
But maybe that’s not what Schroeder was looking for when he took over circa Jan. 16.
In my view, from the time he took over, he has showed himself to be nothing more than a lapdog for New Britain Mayor Timothy Stewart.
Within days of taking over the paper[s], Schroeder decreed that Stewart be quoted in any article in which Democrats expressed criticism of him. If Stewart declined to comment to me (I was covering City Hall at the time), he would be contacted by another reporter of his choosing.
If that didn’t work, Schroeder would play reporter and get the comments from the mayor himself.
Schroeder told me in front of the whole newsroom that Stewart didn’t like me, and that something needed to be done about it.
Fortunately I didn’t have to find out, because I became too sick to ever go back to work.
Then, on March 5, I learned that Schroeder had fired Mark Levy.
Thank God, I thought. I can’t see Levy being a lapdog for anyone.
Couldn’t use quotes
The PR effort for Stewart became so ridiculous that in one of my last stories for the paper, Schroeder told me I could not use the quotes I had transcribed from a phone conversation with former Democratic Mayor Lucian Pawlak regarding how he and other prominent Democrats were condemning Stewart’s threats against council member Greg Gerratana. Gerratana was investigating rumors that Parks and Recreation Department employees were being used on a job at Stanley Golf Course restaurant that the common council had approved for a private contractor. Stewart threatened Gerratana with jail.
What did Pawlak say?
That this was a new low in New Britain politics.
Levy managed to get some of the quotes back into the story against the initial objections of Schroeder, but the story — which had been laid out on the cover as the lead article — was back-paged.
I don’t begrudge anyone for trying to preserve relationships with high-level sources. Access is great. But are journalists supposed to jump through hoops to appease sources?
Besides, I was always able to get comments from Stewart — right up until Schroeder took over as the mayor’s publicist.
Mayor Stewart told me on many occasions that he was going to have Marc Levy and I fired. Now we are both gone.
Stewart said he was convinced we had a liberal Democratic mindset that made it impossible for him to receive fair treatment, which was nonsense.
I wrote extensively about Stewart’s laudable efforts to rebuild downtown and keep taxes down — to the point that the Democrats called me “the mayor’s newsboy.”
But then, when we covered issues that the mayor and his supporters did not want covered — such as the mayor’s ongoing feud with the local firefighters’ union. Stewart and his supporters — comprised of the old school, conservative Democrats and the local GOP cabal.
Stewart went ballistic when we covered his various attempts to secure his full pension benefits as a firefighter with 18½ years on the job — he needs 20. He is currently on leave so that he can serve in office.
After winning a third term in 2007, Stewart began to violate the FOI Act by barring us from public meetings, and his wild outbursts of profanity in City Hall became more common.
A personal encounter
Several weeks before Schroeder appeared on the scene, on the afternoon of Dec. 23, Stewart tried to start a fight at City Hall at a Christmas party Stewart had staged on the entire second floor of City Hall (during business hours).
I was there simply to interview Gerratana regarding an ethics ordinance that he and Alderman Phil Sherwood had proposed, and knew nothing about any Christmas party — that is until Stewart rushed up to me and told me I could not go to it.
When I failed to depart, and started taking pictures, he threatened to knock my teeth out and have me removed. Police told me if I pressed a criminal complaint against the mayor for threatening and breach of peace that Stewart would press a complaint against me for trespassing.
I recently won two back-to-back FOI complaint cases against Stewart and his cronies for barring me from public meetings. I couldn’t believe he could or would pull such a stunt at a Christmas party.
This was news! But when I returned to the newsroom to write about the incident, I was greeted with nothing but abuse from the covering JRC editors. The story never ran. Just like with many of Stewart’s appointees at City Hall, everybody was afraid of Stewart, who has apparently now acquired his own personal public relations bureau at the Herald.
So much for the salvation of New Britain’s watchdog.
With the city taking over the Herald building anyway — it’s slated for demolition to make way for economic development — perhaps Schroeder can move the newspaper operation to City Hall.
Rick Guinness is a former New Britain Herald and Journal Inquirer reporter.
Copyright © 2009 - Journal Inquirer
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RIDGEFIELD:March 21, 2009 at 10 AM
Assemble Ballard Park,Ridgefield
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STAMFORD: March 28, 2009 at 10 AM
Assemble at 96 Broad Street, Stamford
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Mail to: President Obama, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington , D.C. 20500
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Just as a few patriots did in 1773, we are protesting an irresponsible and unresponsive government. We plan on a cheerful, constructive demonstration. Please join us!
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ReplyDeleteFor April 15th 2009 can we all agree that it should be in Hartford? The next question is where? The Capitol building has a large lawn for capacity.
Any ideas for another location in Hartford that can accommodate 1000’s?
For those people in the southern portion of CT that can’t make it up to Hartford, best to find a spot that you know will get as many as possible to attend - or- think about attending the one in NYC.
This rally needs to be locked down this week.
For those liberals living in New Britain (if there are any), please name one instance where massive government deficit spending has lead to a sustained increase in national wealth and standard of living?
ReplyDeleteIf you consider all that BO needs to do to get reelected is get just over 50% of the voting public on the government dole, his new anti-capital, anti-growth, anti-business, class warfare pro socialist agenda makes sense.
But what where you thinking electing a president whom has never run a business or had to mortgage his house to make payroll for his employees and as a state senator always voted present?
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ReplyDeleteFor April 15th 2009 can we all agree that it should be in Hartford? The next question is where? The Capitol building has a large lawn for capacity.
Any ideas for another location in Hartford that can accommodate 1000’s?
For those people in the southern portion of CT that can’t make it up to Hartford, best to find a spot that you know will get as many as possible to attend - or- think about attending the one in NYC.
This rally needs to be locked down this week.
HOW ABOUT BUSHNELL PARK, WHICH IS JUST TO THE NORTH OF THE STATE CAPITOL AND WOULD BE FREE FROM ALL THE RULES AT THE CAPITOL SINCE IT IS A PUBLIC PARK?
If you consider all that BO needs to do to get reelected is get just over 50% of the voting public on the government dole, his new anti-capital, anti-growth, anti-business, class warfare pro socialist agenda makes sense.
ReplyDeleteIn the end, there will be so many people on the doal, that there will be no one left to pay for all the freebies.
Former Reporter Rick Guiness
ReplyDeletereveals on Frank Smith Blog NB that
Mayor Stewart threatened to "Knock His Teeth Out" at a Holiday Party
during Business Hours at City Hall?
At least we now know that Mr. Guiness has teeth! If anyone at City Hall witnessed this altercation I would imagine they would have come forward with the dirt long before now....bad gossip
usually travels pretty fast.
without those hated, greedy Republicans to produce capital, create jobs, and pay taxes, who would pay for all those liberal entitlements?
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