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As reported under Property Transfers in THE NEW BRITAIN HERALD: Timothy O'Brien and his wife Rhona L. Cohen step up to the plate on 12/24/2009 and purchase a house at 25 South High Street in New Britain for the sum of $93,500.
ReplyDeleteWas the property at 25 South High Street use as an office by Chiropracter Dr. Iomassi (SIC?)? If so, is it zoned for residential or commercial use? Do the O'Brien's plan on living there, or operate a business at that address?
ReplyDeleteCould it be just a mail drop?
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ReplyDeleteI will now make sure to bring all my business to Mohegan Sun as I will not knowingly do business with a union business. This decision should cause a large decrease in their business as many conservatives feel the same way about avoiding socialist unions, especially one like the united auto workers which has huge ties to ACORN. People should be warned that when they do business with Foxwoods, they are helping to support an organization like the United Auto Workers:
In what may prove a historic agreement, the owners of Foxwoods Resort Casino and its 2,500 table game dealers have reached their first-ever union contract that will provide scheduled pay increases, offer some job protections and govern working conditions.
The property is probably being staged for a community activist office in preparation for next November's election.
ReplyDeleteWhat will the 2010 Census that is now under way tell us about the growing Puerto Rican population in the City of New Britain.
ReplyDeleteTen years ago when the 2000 Census was taken in New Britain it listed a population of 71,538 citizens in the City with some 15,693 Puerto Rican population that has over taken the Polish population of 14,257 by – some 1,436 Puerto Ricans.
Printed below are the numbers from the 2000 Census of the city of New Britain:
15,693 Puerto Rican...21.9%
14,257 Polish ...19.9%
9,234 Italian ..12.9%
7,794 Black ....10.9%
3,985 French ...5.6%
3,059 German ...4.3%
625 Mexican
221 Cuban
Some ten years ago the the 2000 census listed the Puerto Rican population at 21.9%, the Polish population at 19.9%, the Italian population at 12.9%and the Black population at10.9%.
Control of the NB Common Council in years from the 2010 census figures will favor the growth of the college educated Puerto Rican politicans in the City?
"In my own life in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much," she said. "See, that's why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service, "...
ReplyDeleteMichelle Obama
No, Michele Obama does not get paid to serve as the First Lady and she doesn't perform any official duties. But this hasn't deterred her from hiring an unprecedented number of staffers to cater to her every whim and to satisfy her every request in the midst of the Great Recession.
ReplyDeleteJust think, Mary Lincoln was taken to task for purchasing china for the White House during the Civil War. And Mamie Eisenhower had to shell out the salary for her personal secretary from her husband's salary.
Total Personal Staff members for other first ladies paid by taxpayers:
Mamie Eisenhower: One-- paid for personally out of President's salary.
Jackie Kennedy: One
Rosaline Carter: One
Barbara Bush: One
Hilary Clinton: Three
Laura Bush: One
Michele Obama: Twenty-two
How things have changed! If you're one of the tens of millions of Americans facing certain destitution, earning less than subsistence wages stocking the shelves at Wal-Mart or serving up McDonald cheeseburgers, prepare to scream and then come to realize that the benefit package for these servants of Ms. Michelle are the same as members of the national security and defense departments and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by YOU, John Q. Public.
Michele Obama's personal staff:
One... $172,200 - Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
Two... $140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
Three... $113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary for Mrs. Obama)
Four... $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
Five... $100,000 - Winter, Melissa (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
Six... $90,000 - Medina, David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
Seven... $84,000 - Lilyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
Eight... $75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
Nine... $70,000 - Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Project for the First Lady)
Ten... $65,000 - Burnough, Erinn (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
Eleven... $64,000 - Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
Twelve... $62,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
Thirteen... $60,000 Fitz, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
Fourteen... $57,500 - Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
Fifteen... $52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)
Sixteen... $50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)
Seventeen... $45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
Eighteen... $43,000 - Tubman, Samanth a (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
Nineteen... $40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
Twenty... $36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
Twenty-One... $35,000 - Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
Twenty-Two... $35,000 - Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)
Total. $1,591,200 in annual salaries
There has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time who has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Lady's social life.
One wonders why she needs so much help, at taxpayer expense.
Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and "First Hairstylist" Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe.
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ReplyDeleteThe property is probably being staged for a community activist office in preparation for next November's election--do you mean he wants people to think he actually lives in his district?
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ReplyDeleteThe property is probably being staged for a community activist office in preparation for next November's election.
January 26, 2010 8:28 PM
Maybe a front for Sherwood's ACORN group?
NB Taxpayer says:
ReplyDeleteDon't be surprised when you see that Phil Sherwood has been named campaign manager for some liberal whacko running for office in November. He will probably work along side of Rick Lopes and their ACORN/SEIU/WFP, Socialist Pals.
Frank:
ReplyDeleteAt the Council meeting on Wed., 1/27/10 many members of the public showed up to voice their support for updating the lights and making other improvements at Beehive Field at Willow Brook Park.
At their 1/13/10 meeting the Council had voted against making the needed updates and repairs, 7 to 6. After Public Participation, 4 of the 7 "no voters" spoke to explain their, "no" votes. Not one of them had anything positive to say. Instead they made excuses and gave some cockamayme reasons that supposedly had something to do with fairness and Council procedures. What losers!
This time, only Mike Trueworthy voted NO, AGAIN!
Our Mayor Pro Tem. What an ASSet to New Britain.
Is trueworthy for real?
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ReplyDeleteIs trueworthy for real?
I guess mumbles didn't have Suzanne Bielinski, there to explain that the Democrats had changed their vote.
Frank:
ReplyDeleteThe city of Bristol, through the Nicastro brothers and their thickheaded CCRPA representative, Don Padlo are attempting to block the Hartford/New Britain Busway. They wish to do this and negate ten years of work and millions of dollars already spent to block a project that can be up and running in 3 years. How Padlo can be a reresentative af a "REGIONAL" planning agency is beyond reason. He thinks that whatever is in his mind good for Bristol must be good for the whole region.
Even worse, now he, the Nicastros, Bristol Mayor Ward have recruited - successfully - our NB State Senator DeFronzo and our State Representatives to help block the Busway Project and New Britain's Downtown Redevelopment effort. What a bunch of losers is our state legislative contingent. These people must be replaced in November.
You can guess why - it's all political payback.
We agree that we must replace the Democratic progrssives who are supposed to be representing us in the state legislature. The question rises, with whom? You can't beat this contingency with the same old 'good sports' that the RTC endorses.
ReplyDeleteIt is the year for serious New Britain Republicans to come up with bright, attractive, young candidates. Are there any Scott Brown types who have the fire in the belly? We need passionate candidates. We need to support these candidates.
Most NB voters are not liberals or progressives. They are decent conservative Democrats who need to wake up!
The best part about Obama's terrible term is that across this country Americans are waking up and want to admit their mistake for putting him into office.
Let us do the same thing and get rid of our state senator and representatives. Did we elect them for life? They are not serving us well. The time is now.
Our state legislators here in New Britain are people who are: those who have never had a real job - unless you count feeding at the public trough a job -; those who count on union support (hectoring) to urge support from Dem voters; those who shower their voters with taxpayer funded entitlements; those who pay only lip service to voters at election time; those who find it difficult to articulate any solid, positive actions they have ever done for the City of NB and finally those who can't stand a Republican being Mayor of our City.
ReplyDeleteTo that end I ask the taxpayers and voters of NB, what have any of these legislators done to help the City in revitalization efforts. e.g., downtown New Britain? What have they done for education, property tax relief, homelessness, fatherlessness, etc.? Come on, just name one thing! OH, they have sided with the City of Bristol - against New Britain - in Bristol's "planless" effort to re transportation problems.
DeFronzo was Mayor for 4 years and he did "ZIPPO" for revitalization of NB.
It would be great if Tim Stewart would run for State Senator on the Republican ticket...however, he's doing such a good job as Mayor, do we want to let him go?
ReplyDeleteMaybe he can persuade his daughter, Erin, to run..she's young, smart and bright, amongst other positive traits.
Would Paul Carver be a good choice? There must be other Republicans who qualify.
It would be great if Tim Stewart would run for State Senator on the Republican ticket...however, he's doing such a good job as Mayor, do we want to let him go?
ReplyDeleteMaybe he can persuade his daughter, Erin, to run..she's young, smart and bright, amongst other positive traits.
Would Paul Carver be a good choice? There must be other Republicans who qualify.
Paul Carver or Erin Stewart??? Have you taken leave of your senses? We need bright people with integrity, not opportunists! Let us think outside of the box and the political arena.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...It would be great if Tim Stewart would run for State Senator on the Republican ticket...however, he's doing such a good job as Mayor, do we want to let him go?
ReplyDelete...The problem with running Tim Stewart for anything (not that he wouldn't win by a landslide against any Democratic loon), is if he left his position as Mayor, we would end up with that liberal loon Trueworthy as Mayor for the remainder of Stewart's term.
It appears to me that the Democrats shot themselves in the foot with their out of control power trip, by blocking the appointment of Mark Bernacki to the position of Mayor Pro Tempore.
Tim Stewart is too responsible a leader to leave the leadership of the city he cares so much about to the lunatic wet dreams of Trueworthy & Company. Had the council appointed a responsible leader like Alderman Bernacki (an Alderman who served in that capacity in the past) Mayor Stewart would be able to seek higher office with the knowledge that he is leaving someone responsible at the helm of the city.
Tim Stewart also will be re-elected to Mayor for as many terms as he wants because of the amazing job he is doing leading this city through such trying times, so the lunatic fringe that has hijacked our council has assured New Britain that Tim Stewart will be Mayor for as long as he is willing to serve this city, whether the left wing extremists like it or not.
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Our state legislators here in New Britain are people who are: those who have never had a real job - unless you count feeding at the public trough a job -; those who count on union support (hectoring) to urge support from Dem voters; those who shower their voters with taxpayer funded entitlements; those who pay only lip service to voters at election time; those who find it difficult to articulate any solid, positive actions they have ever done for the City of NB and finally those who can't stand a Republican being Mayor of our City.
To that end I ask the taxpayers and voters of NB, what have any of these legislators done to help the City in revitalization efforts. e.g., downtown New Britain? What have they done for education, property tax relief, homelessness, fatherlessness, etc.? Come on, just name one thing! OH, they have sided with the City of Bristol - against New Britain - in Bristol's "planless" effort to re transportation problems.
DeFronzo was Mayor for 4 years and he did "ZIPPO" for revitalization of NB.
YOU COULD SUM IT UP BY SAYING DEFRONZO IS NOT THE SOLUTION--HE IS THE PROBLEM!!!
A perfect example of how well New Britain is faring under Mayor Stewart's stewardship is the article in today's Herald announcing that the New Britain grand list went down a mere $90,000 over last year.
ReplyDeleteYesterday's Hartford Courant reported that O'Brien's hometown of Manchester lost $8.5 million in their grand list this year. Perhaps the difference is due to the good Democratic leadership in Manchester?
Senator Defronzo is the epitome of an elected official who has no idea what it is like to hold a real job! How many years did he spend on full time leave from his state job while working at the union and collecting his state salary, health care, and earning credit towards a state retirement? Then after that union position, he went on to become Mayor of New Britain for 4 years, again apparently earning a state pension for the 4 years that he didn't have to show up for work at his state job. Now he is a State Senator, continuing to accrue retirement credits to build an even bigger state pension for a job he was allowed to be absent from for years and years and years.
ReplyDeleteDoes this sound like a benefit any of the Senator's constituents would ever receive from their employers?
And you wonder why Connecticut is bankrupt?
If a Republican can win by a landslide in Massachusetts, a Republican can win here in New Britain too!
ReplyDeleteHopefully the same clean sweep expected to sweep through Congress will also sweep through our state house with a newly elected Republican majority in Hartford, then we can say goodbye to all these socialist Democrats!
ReplyDeleteNot to throw a thorn in someone's argument, but Manchester currently has a Republican Mayor and a Republican Board of Directors. So that isn't what resulted in the difference in grand lists.
ReplyDeleteAlderman Larry Hermanowski's answer to the athletic crowd in attendance over the Beehive lights issue "the council fully intended to approve the project." with Alderman Phil Sherwood adding "I would be upset too after reading what I read in the newspapers, it was a radical misrepresentation."
ReplyDeleteThe radical part of all this, Alderman Sherwood, is the council's attempting to place the blame everywhere else but where it really belongs---- to the Radical Democratic side of the council membership.
"Alderman Phil Sherwood adding "I would be upset too after reading what I read in the newspapers, it was a radical misrepresentation."
ReplyDeleteI guess the message from Sherwood is that if he doesn't approve the information printed in the Herald (most likely before it is printed), then the Herald is a bunch radicals. It sounds like only Sherwood and his bunch of misfits are the only ones in his eyes that are not radicals. Perhaps, the truth is just the opposite.
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ReplyDeleteSenator Defronzo is the epitome of an elected official who has no idea what it is like to hold a real job! How many years did he spend on full time leave from his state job while working at the union and collecting his state salary, health care, and earning credit towards a state retirement? Then after that union position, he went on to become Mayor of New Britain for 4 years, again apparently earning a state pension for the 4 years that he didn't have to show up for work at his state job. Now he is a State Senator, continuing to accrue retirement credits to build an even bigger state pension for a job he was allowed to be absent from for years and years and years.
Does this sound like a benefit any of the Senator's constituents would ever receive from their employers?
And you wonder why Connecticut is bankrupt?
January 30, 2010 6:06 PM
Aren't these the same bunch who made a big deal out of Tom Bozek "double dipping"?
Looks like a case of the pot calling the kettle black!
There could be no more fitting tribute to the liberal extremist works of the late Senator Ted Kennedy than for the people to give his seat to a conservative Republican!
ReplyDeleteThis speaks volumes about the general opinion the people of Massachusetts have for their so-called liberal lion.
Aren't these the same bunch who made a big deal out of Tom Bozek "double dipping"?
ReplyDeleteLooks like a case of the pot calling the kettle black!
...It isn't common knowledge what a good job Defronzo has done making a career of different ways to build his state pension?
Didn't the Herald just report that Murphy is losing in every Demographic by a 2 to 1 margin to Republican Justin Bernier?
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see the polls once a good solid Republican candidate steps up to challenge Senator DeFronzo!
Apparently it is OK for a liberal loon to so-called "double-dip". As usual the liberal extremists attack conservatives like Bozek for something their own comrade is doing right before our eyes.
ReplyDeleteThe story of the Democrats, New Britain, Hartford and Washington:
ReplyDeleteThere is no clearer sign of an impending collapse of power and subsequent political realignment in an open democracy then when leaders of the ruling party resort to vote-buying, payoffs, misrepresentation, and secrecy to pass their legislative agenda and force implementation of their priorities.
the Bizy-Bee was right:
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