Fallboy Gerratana or Was He?

Admitted Serial Poster Greg Gerratana Pulls Nomination as New Britain Tax Collector, But is He Just the Fallboy?
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The New Britain Herald will be reporting in tomorrow's edition (Sept. 21) that Greg Gerratana, the person who admitted to posting below-the-belt comments on the Herald's web site about Mayor Tim Stewart, is pulling his candidacy as the city's Democratic nominee for Tax Collector.

This comes after a story by CTNewsJunkie.com saying Rep. Tim O'Brien, candidate for mayor of New Britain, called for Gerratana to resign from his ticket:

“I am personally disappointed in Greg Gerratana’s action in writing personal attacks against another official, and I’m sorry that he did,” O’Brien said. “It was inexcusable."


O'Brien also asked Speaker of the House Chris Donovan to see that Gerratana would be reassigned as his legislative assistant up at the Capitol. Last week Gerratana was serving a one week suspension from his aide duties after finally choosing to say he was responsible. An examination by the Herald found that computers from the state Capitol where breeding grounds for the online vitriol. It was soon speculated by blogs that the people responsible were either Gerratana or Richard Lopes, an aide to Sen. Don Defronzo, D-New Britain, and campaign manager for O'Brien's run at NB mayor. Lopes already has a history of trying to pull stupid fourth-grade pranks like messing up a Capitol employee's desk back in 2007.


But I don't think the story ends here, and neither do other people I've talked to who have kept close to the New Britain political scene. According to one person, right before the comment-gate thing broke, Greg Gerratana sat down with a Herald reporter for a recorded 53 minute interview and denied over and over that he was the one who made the comments. The next day, Gerratana weirdly admitted to the House Democratic Caucus that he was in fact behind the online postings.

This begs some speculation: Was Gerratana asked to take the fall for perhaps Lopes, O'Brien's campaign manager? Did John McNamara, party chair of the New Britain Democrats force the kid to take one for the team? Why else would he change his story after denying it on the record?