FRANKSMITHSAYSNB EDITORIAL:
It was comical but very sad to read the Democratic outrage over the veto notice presented to the city common council members in today's Hartford Courant quoting King Sherwood as calling the mayor's action an " Abuse of power by the Mayor" at the DTC Meeting last night. The King also charged that the Mayor's action were illegal by amending the budget with the use of the line item veto.
At the DTC meeting "Threats Surfaced" with Sherwood indicating that the Board of Education will sue and he will be attempting to get the council members to become interveners in that suit. But in the Courant story Sherwood is quoted as saying he predicted that the school board will sue and also predicted in the courant article that the council would probably join the suit if that happens. Sherwood also said he believes he can use taxpayer dollars to pay for an attorney to handle the suit!
It is the opinion of this editor that the Democrats are willing to spend taxpayers money by joining in; or establishing their own lawsuit over the fact that the Board of Education will not be getting the 1.5 million dollars that the Democrats voted last Monday night with their usual grandstanding for Education.
Let's face it, all the council members are supposed to be preventing unnecessary spending of taxpayer's money, but will the Democrats be willing to join King Sherwood in his quest in keeping his promise to the Board of Education, and wasting your money?
Perhaps if Representative Geragosian had represented New Britain as Chairman of the Legislature's appropriations committee, none of this would be necessary, because he would have obtained more funding for New Britain schools instead of presiding over a committee that gave nothing to New Britain while increasing funding to Hartford, New Haven, New London, and Waterbury. When questioned why he didn't get some of this funding for his own district in New Britain, Geragosian responded that those towns had more problems than New Britain has, which left me questioning who Mr. Geragosian really represents!
Friday, June 18, 2010
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Not only does Mr. Geragosian not know what district he represents, he also seems to lack the intelligence to know that New Haven, Hartford, and Waterbury already receive LOADS more state aid than NB, especially when it comes to education. New London also has a larger grand list per capita than NB, and has a larger middle class. So I really don't know what Mr. Geragosian is talking about, and neither does he, apparently! Time to vote in new blood!!
Things haven't been going very well for one of our local politico's have they?
quoted as complaining that his wife wants to move out of town for better schools...
boss arrested in a radical protest...
some council Democrats failing to vote in lockstep as instructed by their radical leadership, something that was once never heard of in this town...
mayor vetoes $1.5 million that council radicals demanded go to the BOE, saving taxpayers an even higher increase in property taxes...
quoted as making wild threats of lawsuits against the mayor for what would seem to amount to failing to fund the radical agenda....
who could this be?
The mayor has done the right thing by turning off the tap of free flowing money to the BOE, but he still needs to keep demanding the details on where they are spending our money--all the details and not some generic summary cooked up in the back room at the BOE. Let's see all the details. What are you trying to hide Ms. Beloin-Savaandra? What is it you are so ashamed of, that you can't even show it to the mayor and the council?
I wonder how many more doors Sherwood has kicked since once again not getting his way?
whoever said" A Little Child Shall Lead them" must have known about the city council!
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