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24 comments:
Frank:
Think about this; Phil Sherwood told Jim Craven of The Herad that the Council Dems are expected to override Mayor Stewart's veto of the Resolution to reappoint William Candellori to the Mattabassett District Commission. If that prediction holds true and the attempted override is successful, what does that tell the NB taxpayers about their elected Democratic Council members, especially the leaders, Trueworthy and Sherwood.?
It tells them that the Dems favor putting somone in charge of multimillions of dollars worth of NB taxpayer monies; not just anybody, but a person convicted of tax fraud, a person convicted of being a part of a multi million dollar ponzi scheme that bankrupted thousands of people, a person who is a tax cheat - owes the city of NB well over $2000 in realestate taxes.
It also tells you that the Dems favored making Trueworthy Mayor Pro Tem, the person who would take over should anything happen to the Mayor. Is that what NB wants?? I don't think so.
I just can't understand how anyone, Democrat or Republican, could support putting a person with such a questionable past in charge of so much of our money?
Who's interest does such an appointment serve?
Certainly not the people of New Britain, Berlin or Cromwell!
In my opinion, there must be more to this than meets the eye.
The residents of New Britain Voted for this. It is a democratic process and this is the outcome.
If anybody doesn't like it, they should move out. And the sooner the better.
There's only one way to describe this lunacy being portrayed by the Council's Democratic so-called leadership and their blind determination to hand over control of our money to someone who was involved in such a scandalous swindle as Colonial Realty, a fraud that cost many investors their life savings:
OUTRAGEOUS!
Mr. Candelori is a former partner in Colonial Realty--described in a recent article in The Day of New London as: Connecticut's own Madoff-style Ponzi scheme in which local investors lost hundreds of millions of dollars (Loan bribe, or defense strategy, by David Collins, 4/12/2009).
Anonymous said...The residents of New Britain Voted for this. It is a democratic process and this is the outcome.
If anybody doesn't like it, they should move out. And the sooner the better.
I don't recall being offered a vote as to whether I wanted a CONVICTED FELON (remember he pled guilty?) controlling my tax dollars?
WERE YOU OFFERED SUCH A VOTE?
" Anonymous said...
The residents of New Britain Voted for this. It is a democratic process and this is the outcome.
If anybody doesn't like it, they should move out. And the sooner the better.
November 22, 2009 1:24 PM"
WOW!!! Somebody really wrote this!?? Please, identify yourself! Let NB know who you are. This is a Democratic process?? This attitude is absolutely dictatorship quality. Is this John McNamara, Phil Sherwood, Mike Trueworthy?? Nobody I know, not even Democrats voted for this. WHO ARE YOU???
LOU SALVIO
Candelori is a former partner of Colonial Realty Co., a failed real estate venture whose founders, Benjamin Sisti and Jonathan Googel, were convicted on fraud charges and sentenced to prison. Candelori was sentenced to probation and community service after pleading guilty to tax evasion. Colonial collapsed in 1990 and cost investors an estimated $350 million.
The residents of New Britain Voted for this. It is a democratic process and this is the outcome.
If anybody doesn't like it, they should move out. And the sooner the better.
THIS SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING YOU WOULD EXPECT TO HEAR FROM AN ELITIST LIKE SHERWOOD!
only $350 million, that's not much money by today's standards!
MAN ADMITS HIDING CASH FOR COLONIAL CO FOUNDER, Hartford Courant, April 30, 1996:
A lawyer Monday admitted helping Colonial Realty Co.'s co-founder, Jonathan Googel, defraud the bankruptcy court in 1990 by hiding a brown duffel stuffed with about $1 million of Googel's cash.
[Mark R.] Perkell, now 50 and a resident of Vermont, was an Essex neighbor and jogging partner of Googel's in September 1990, when creditors forced Colonial into bankruptcy court and Googel suddenly needed a place to hide cash.
It's true the voters chose this council. Who can argue? And by choosing this council make-up the voters endorsed their policies. This issue with Candelori is not a new appointment it's a re-appointment. If the voting public
was dis-satisfied with the many un-ethical issues and outrageous votes
on the council, the council would have been voted out, but they weren't? Every person that voted had a choice and each person that votes thinks they are doing the best with what they know or what they have been told. Obviously the voters in New Britain are either mis-informed or not informed
at all but, the democratic process was followed and the voters spoke based on what they think they know.
Maybe the republicans need to get the message across to wider audience.
FOLLOW THE MONEY!
Sounds a lot like Nancy Pelosi saying WE WON, SO WE CAN DO WHATEVER WE WANT!
It's true the voters chose this council. Who can argue? And by choosing this council make-up the voters endorsed their policies. This issue with Candelori is not a new appointment it's a re-appointment. If the voting public
was dis-satisfied with the many un-ethical issues and outrageous votes
on the council, the council would have been voted out, but they weren't? Every person that voted had a choice and each person that votes thinks they are doing the best with what they know or what they have been told. Obviously the voters in New Britain are either mis-informed or not informed
at all but, the democratic process was followed and the voters spoke based on what they think they know.
Maybe the republicans need to get the message across to wider audience.
The charter should be changed to have the Mayor Pro Tem be a member of the same political party as the Mayor, unless, of course, there is no council member of the same party. Mark Bernacki would have been the perfect choice.
How can the voters be well informed when the New Britain Herald won't print anything negative about a Democrat, and in the rare situations whereby they do, the article is buried deep inside the paper?
Anonymous said...
The charter should be changed to have the Mayor Pro Tem be a member of the same political party as the Mayor, unless, of course, there is no council member of the same party. Mark Bernacki would have been the perfect choice.
What if, instead of electing someone from the council, the charter were changed to create a new "Deputy Mayor" position that would be elected along with the mayor in the next election?
Then the mayor would run with his deputy as a team, just like in the case of the president/vice president, or governor/lieutenant governor. The Deputy Mayor's main purpose would be to replace the mayor in his absence or succeed him if something should happen to the mayor, and would be a valuable assistant to him, in a position to help him run the city.
Maybe New Britain should be proud to have a sewer commissioner that has been so prominently mentioned in The New York Times, even if the Herald won't report it!
Most voters do not read The New Britain Herald or any paper for that matter. The votes came from the direct door to door approach.
And the negative campaining the democrats put out about taxes. The race was very close. The republicans ran a pretty clean campaign and didn't drive home the negative truths about the democrats
and so here we are again with this
ridiculas council and it's policies.
I was of the opinion that Bertha Lewis is now the Deputy Mayor, or at least is running the council by remote control through her lap dog, Phony Phil.
Go to the New Britain Herald Editorial page of Monday, Nov. 23. Helene Groman's Letter to the Editor is excellent..a must read!!
" Anonymous said...
Go to the New Britain Herald Editorial page of Monday, Nov. 23. Helene Groman's Letter to the Editor is excellent..a must read!!"
Helene Groman is a very fine lady as is Ann Mikulak. Both have appeared most recently at Council meetings and made pleas for sanity and cooperation on behalf not only of the CPOA but on behalf of taxpayers in general. It appears that those pleas have fallen on deaf Democratic ears.
I know that Ann Mikulak has spoken with some of these Dems personally. Result? You've seen it; voting down the line at 11 - 3. Larry Hermanowski is purported to have said, "... the die is cast, it's 11 - 3." Salvio brought this up at the 11/12/09 Council meeting. Pelosi says, we won we can do what we want - Hermanowski says, ..." the die is cast, 11-3! Any questions?
And now, another "brain surgeon tells NB taxpayers, "this is a Democratic process, if you don't like it, move out!
I wonder how Helene Groman likes knowing that the council leadership couldn't care less about her opinion.
I wouldn't doubt it was one of them that posted "IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, MOVE OUT OF TOWN, AND THE SOONER THE BETTER"
No, no please don’t move out of New Britain! We enjoy listening to you guys whine like a bunch of little sissy!!!
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