Friday, June 17, 2011

Political Factions Line Up Over Costco Controversy: The Courant

Posted by Frank Smith at 17.6.11

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It should come as no surprise that a DeFronzo is leading the attack against an employer--trying to drive them out of town and take their 200 jobs and $445,000 in annual taxes with them.

Sherwood would no doubt be jealous because he only led the charge to drive Wal-Mart's 150 jobs out of town.

These evil businesses must be punished!

June 17, 2011 at 11:51 PM
Anonymous said...

"Sherwood would no doubt be jealous because he only led the charge to drive Wal-Mart's 150 jobs out of town." Don't forget, O'Brien was in on the WalMart thing, also, as was Catanzaro. Sherwood also chased away a potential interest in Pinnacle Heights - do we all remember the "where's the beef" comment?
And, let us not forget another important piece of negative history attributable to DeFronzo's father and to David's co-opponent to Costco, none other than the carpet bagger from Manchester, the ever glad handing Tim O'Brien.
About five years ago, The Tilcon Company approached the City with a proposal to purchase excess, non usable NB Water Department
watershed land, west of Wooster St. A few disgruntled folks opposed the sale and pursuaded then then State Senator Don DeFronzo, and Rep. Tim Obrien to have the State Legislature to squash the deal. THE SALE WOULD HAVE BROUGHT IN $15 MILLION DOLLARS. THAT $15 M WOULD HELP NB A LOT RIGHT NOW. NOTHING IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD HAS CHANGED, EXCEPT FOR THE WORST. The blasting has not subsided.

June 18, 2011 at 7:49 AM
Lou Salvio said...

In his rendering of NB's history of holding city land sacred, Alderman David DeFronzo conveniently omits - 1960s and beyond - the raping of New Britain's central business district and the chasing away of thousands of manufacturing jobs from the city. Why was this done? Because of the promise of the major highways that would transform NB into a business mecca. There were some unscrupulous city fathers/politicians that made a ton of money building the highways and tearing down and reselling of materials from the great NB factories. How did that turn out for NB, David?
The Courant did not mention that Alderman DeFronzo was also the lone, dissenting vote on the Aquinas property sale and the lone dissenting vote on the CREC proposal for a Health Careers Magnet School on the Pinnacle Heights property. His questions re the CREC proposal had little to do with the efficacy of the proposal and more to do with its possible but not probable effects on the NB School System of which he is an employee. Personally, I would question whether there is a possible conflict of interest here for DeFronzo.
I see a questionable voting pattern taking shape here with Alderman DeFronzo, one more concerned with personal obstructionism of proposals of Mayor Stewart than with the commonweal.

June 18, 2011 at 8:14 AM

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