To the Editor:
One would think that when people are elected to a public office, e.g. Common Council in New Britain, those people have a desire to work for the betterment in all forms of the citizens of their community. Elected officials can do this for example by advancing positive suggestions for lowering taxes, improving public education, the general welfare of the community. If there were a better way/suggestion than one that is made, the positive thing to do would be to offer suggestions for improvement. The obverse of this is to offer nothing positive but instead, to obstruct and delay. Not for any other reason than to be politically negative.
This negative behavior has never and can never advance the general welfare; it can only advance the negative feeling of some that all politicians are crooked, etc.
This totally negative behavior is exactly the kind to which Mayor Stewart has been subjected for the past five plus years by Council Democrats especially in the past two years. Especially in the past two years, Council Democrats (with the help of state legislators) have blocked a potential revenue gain of $15 million, they have insulted potential developers, impugned the integrity of NB citizens, they have passed additional ethics and FOI regulations to which they themselves don’t adhere and yet, they accuse the Mayor and others of being dishonest and sneaky.
To do this, some Democrat Council agitators have enlisted the “help” of neighborhood rabble-rousers and deposed and defunct newspaper and other personalities. These mercenaries try to incite/foment trouble in New Britain by circulating damning leaflets and disrupting Council and other public meetings. Others are simply used as Democratic shills to promote doubt.
Again one might say, why do you or anyone allow this unproductive type of behavior to continue? Why? Because the voters elected the evildoers with a supermajority on the Council, Voters need to be more careful and discerning next November!
Lou Salvio. Republican Alderman
City of New Britain
103 Russwin Rd. (860)-225-9992
9 comments:
Great letter, Lou...The public has to know what's going on...you said it the way it has to be told!
Lou,
If someone I was doing business with talked to me the way Sherwood addressed the developer for Pinnacle Heights, I would have got up and walked out and took my $5 million with me, and that still might happen after he treated that guy so rudely.
Another great letter from Lou Salvio! Frank, you should post the letter from newcomer Don Naples that appeared in Monday's Herald.
Abe Lincoln said: You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong; you cannot help small men by tearing down big men; you cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich; you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence; you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do themselves; you cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income; you cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
One would think that when people are elected to a public office, e.g. Common Council in New Britain, those people have a desire to work for the betterment in all forms of the citizens of their community.
LOU, there are certain aldermen whose community seems to be ACORN, not New Britain.
Anonymous said...
Another great letter from Lou Salvio! Frank, you should post the letter from newcomer Don Naples that appeared in Monday's Herald.
August 10, 2009 10:34 PM
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Yes, that was a great letter from Don Naples. I agree--you should post it here!
I agree Lou. I am amazed that developers who come before our crazy council members don't simply
walk out. Look at the treatment
Jordan's Caterers received when they bid on the Stanley Golf Course
restaurant lease.
Sally,
Good point, you even had a crackpot alderman attacking Jordan's and accusing them of importing hot dogs from China. What a bunch of nuts!
Don Naples letter is posted here on this blog!
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