On NBC News this evening Mayor O’Brien blamed landlords for spreading what he called lies while attempting to explain his reasoning for hiring Global Strategy—a firm where Roy Occhiogrosso had been a partner before becoming Governor Malloy's advisor.
Now Mayor O'Brien is apparently taking his advice from Roy & Phil by attacking the landlords with accusations that they are telling their tenants not to call 911 for emergency calls.
Such claims are far from the truth when the property owners are in court fighting two ridiculous ordinances—only one being the " Hotspot" ordinance that places blame and fines against the landlords for the calls made by his tenants—calls the landlord has no control over. The mayor somehow feels that the landlord is to blame and deserving of a stiff fine if a man comes home drunk and beats his wife every night forcing her to call police to protect her from her husband. In the apparently radical extremist mind of our mayor, that evil rich landlord is to blame for everything that ails you including spousal abuse, burglars, car thieves and anyone else who may victimize you. Perhaps your landlord should be fined if your employer fires you from your job—after all—there is just as much causal connection to your landlord for you being fired as there is to you being beaten or abused by your spouse.
Since this ordinance escapes any rational logic, could the true reasoning behind hiring this firm (which has a public record of representing Democrats in their election campaigns) simply be to use public money to shore up a mayor’s reelection campaign at taxpayer expense and not the reasons claimed on NBC news tonight?
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Thursday, December 27, 2012
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For the record- Roy Occhiogrosso is associated with Global Strategies Group, a political public relations & consulting firm. He also ran the Malloy's campaign for governor and has been a political organizer, consultant and key advisor to Democrats in state of Connecticut for more than two decades.
So - Our New Britain Mayor O'Brien has thrown his re-election hat into the ring by hiring Global Strategies & Mr.Occhiogross for sum of $100,000 dollars. As New Britain Tax-payers have noticed, Mr. O'Brien will now be using our New Britain tax dollars to fund his 2013 re-election campaign.
Because if O'Brien had to raise cash in 2013 election to support his campaign and re-election efforts, the negative results might depict that his political support and campaign money has vanished ?
NO'Brien 2013 !!!!!
The 100,000 dollar purchase will bring yet another ethics complaint.
It wasn't brought before the council for a vote.
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