Frank Smith Says NB: Are We Allied to a Corpse? - HUMAN EVENTS

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Are We Allied to a Corpse? - HUMAN EVENTS

5 comments:

Anonymous said...: What would you expect. You are comparing failing European socialist nations with the capitalist giant United States.

Socialism is the sure way to destroy a nation whether brain dead Democrats are willing to admit it or not.; April 19, 2011 at 11:27 PM
Anonymous said...: Unfortunately, as a democrat, Senator Blumenthal is not nor is his staff programed to accept anything from a Republican...they have dug themselves into a hole...Simmons is a good guy thinking about the best way to help veterans while Blumenthal is only loyal to his party which has a lousy record in support of the military and its veterans.

Simmons should work with General McCrystal and not waste time waiting for Blummy to get the correct spin on his military record?.; April 20, 2011 at 4:39 AM
Anonymous said...: Convicted former Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez says he’s owed $131,590.32 in unused sick and vacation time from the city of Hartford. The former gang member and Trinity College factotum resigned his office after a jury convicted him of corruption last June. Perez is free on bond as he appeals his conviction on five counts.

Mr. Perez, who is represented by counsel, says he’s owed $66.865 (yes, a half-cent) for 1,200 hours of vacation time and 768 hours of sick time. He made the claim in a December 22, 2010 letter to the city.

Perez won three terms as mayor but appears not to have kept very good records of his time in office. City officials are looking for proof of the hours he worked and what vacation and sick time he used while in office. Perez, who claimed dyslexia caused him to misunderstand his corrupt acts, was often in court during the pendency of charges against him. Was he using vacation or sick time?

The one-time bully brought low won’t see one red half-cent until he can compile some proof. Maybe it’s in the name of phantom Willie Nunez, the name Perez used for secret correspondence in the city email system.; April 20, 2011 at 4:45 AM
Anonymous said...: Mr. Chairman DTC John McNamara’s recent editorial, criticizing the Herald for disapproving of his Democratic Common Council member’s support for passing a resolution seeking to obtain monthly reports of city payments to any elected official’s business, is a lame attempt at deflecting mounting public disgust with his party’s demeanor and performance.

As a former alderman who served with at least half the current Democrats on the common council, I watch with incredulity how their whisper campaign has been smearing the good names of two very successful colleagues who happen to own businesses in town. As any one of them could tell you, given an unguarded moment of candor, all work done for the city in excess of $3,000 is put out to bid and is reported back to the council by the Purchasing Dept. With the names of all businesses who submitted a bid for the job to be performed. It shows every company’s bid amount along with the Purchasing Dept.’s recommendation going to the lowest responsible bidder.

The council, not the mayor, then makes the final determination of selecting the winning bidder. Important fact: If a city vendor is not the lowest bid received but is within 5% – 10% (depending on job type) they are given the chance to win the job if they agree to meet the lowest bidder’s price. This allowance has been at the forefront of both political parties efforts in the past decade to support local businesses by giving them a hometown advantage.

To now complain as the Democrats do that these jobs are suspiciously being awarded to local businesses who just happen to be Republican aldermen, and worse to feign not knowing who is winning these bids and who the city is paying on a monthly basis stretches their credibility beyond the breaking point. It is factually and thoroughly dishonest and reeks of gutter politics.

As for Mr. McNamara’s claim that the Stewart administration has been somehow violating city ethics, he really should take a good look in the mirror. In the same six year period he makes his accusation there have been four complaints made to the city’s Ethics Commission. One of them, brought against the mayor by him and members of his Democratic Party, found the mayor exonerated and cleared of all charges. Conversely, the other three complaints resulted in findings of ethics violations of two past Democratic aldermen plus a current one who just announced his candidacy for mayor.

What did the Democrats on the council, those supposed champions of purity and clean government, do about these violations? Nothing! No reprimand, no censure, not even a stern lecture to their violators within about playing by the rules. And now we are to believe Mr. McNamara when he shamelessly and falsely accuses the mayor of ethical deficiencies? To that I say: The Emperor has no clothes, sir!

Mayor Stewart’s tenure in office has been marked by non-stop political grandstanding and subterfuge from Mr. McNamara and his band of aldermanic accomplices. Voters who have been watching the Democratic Party circus that has become common council meetings would do well to remember their repulsive and conniving behavior in November and replace them with others who can actually follow the Democrat’s stated creed of honesty in government.

Peter Gostin; April 20, 2011 at 11:39 AM
Anonymous said...: ouse Republican leader Larry Cafero said the GOP budget is necessary in order to have an alternative to Malloy's fiscal plan, which has been the subject of major scrutiny since it was unveiled in mid-February.

A PROPOSED heavily detailed Republican proposal would cut 2,700 state-employee positions, establish a tax amnesty program that would generate one-time revenue of $25 million, eliminate public financing of political campaigns to save $44 million over two years, close two seasonal state ferries across the Connecticut River, consolidate the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women with other commissions, shut down the motor vehicles office in New Britain, and close seven rest areas along Interstates 95, 91, and 84.; April 20, 2011 at 5:54 PM

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