Tuesday, April 30, 2013
CPOA Alert Mayor to sign Off on HRS'S Back Taxes and future as well
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Monday, April 29, 2013
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Saturday, April 27, 2013
How Did Public Participation Speakers Know of the HRA Issue?
During public participation, citizen, Alton Brooks spoke in favor of giving the HRA of NB (former Benjamin Franklin Elem. School) an exemption to paying property taxes. How could he know to speak on the issue since it would not be put on the agenda until later in the meeting? HRA owes the City of $220,707.98 as of 4/11/13. His reasoning was that it is a school. Really? Is it a NB School? NO! Is it a Charter School? NO! Is it State Magnet School? NO!
When the City sold the former Benjamin Franklin School to HRA the deed reported that the property would be exempt from property taxes. JUST THAT BUILDING! HRA built a huge addition to the property; this addition was not exempt and was agreed to by the principals!
Now, HRA cries foul and hires private Attorney, Michael Carrier to mediate the issue, COMPLETELY BYPASSING ALL CITY ATTORNEYS IN THE CORPORATION COUNSEL’S OFFICE, A CITY OFFICE THAT IS COSTING TAXPAYERS WELL OVER $ HALF A MILLION TO MAINTAIN. Again, check the contributions list. See who contributed how much !
In addition, at the most recent Council meeting, the Council agreed to extend the contract of David Pudlin (so far paid over $30 thousand) for another year for what? As of this date, Pudlin has produced nothing to show for his "work." And all the sheep voted for it, in particular, Alderwoman Bielinski and Alderman Trueworthy.
And how about O’Brien having an Executive Aide, Michael Baczewski (out of towner),page 6, Herald, 4/25/13 being paid by taxpayers to do what, change O’Brien’s diapers? How much help does O’Brien need?
Lou Salvio
Friday, April 26, 2013
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
Friday, April 19, 2013
New Britain's Councilman, Jamie Giantonio, Questions Budget Transfers of $6 Million
BY: Robin Vinci, Editor
•O’Brien’s Budget Ignores Malloy’s Proposal •Fictional Revenues
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Thursday, April 18, 2013
Agenda for the Annual Meeting
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For those who are not yet aware, our Annual Meeting is this Sunday at 2pm in the Community Room of the New Britain Police Department. Anyone who would like to be a member is encouraged to attend. You may pay your annual dues ($10) at the door regardless of whether you are a new or renewing member.
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The agenda for the meeting is as follows:
2:00-2:15 Gathering and Socializing
2:15 Meeting Begins
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The agenda for the meeting is as follows:
2:00-2:15 Gathering and Socializing
2:15 Meeting Begins
- Call to Order
- Pledge of Allegiance
- Greeting and Opening Comments - New Britain Chief of Police, James Wardwell
- Year in Review – President, Nicholas Mercier
- Special Guest Speaker – New Britain Superintendent of
Schools , Kelt Cooper - Overview of the Mayor’s Proposed Budget - President, Nicholas Mercier
- Presentation of Tax Payer Appreciation Award – Vice President, Henry Zembko
- Nomination and Election: CPOA Board – Board Member, Jim Sanders Jr.
- Nomination and Election: Executive Board – Board Member, Jim Sanders Jr.
- Closing Comments – President, Nicholas Mercier
- Adjournment
Mayor O'Brien's Spokesman, Phil Sherwood, disobeys the Laws we as citizens must obey!
Even though
he committed only an infraction it is despicable when so called leaders at city
hall can say "don't do as I do but do as I say."
Court
Records indicated that Mr. Sherwood was arrested 1-16-2013 for operating an
unregistered Vehicles and operating a MV with handheld telephone electronic
device or texting with his pleading not guilty at the hearing and being
[release from the custody of a friend].
The New
Britain Superior Court has issued an infraction letter to Mr. Sherwood to appear
at his next hearing on 5-9-2013 at 11 AM.
Editor's
note: Arrested
persons are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in a court of law.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Annoucing The CPOA Annual Meeting
April 21, 2013 at 2:00 P. M.
in The Community Room of the New Britain
Police Depart
We are extremely excited to hold our annual meeting in the
Community Room of the brand new police department.
-After being barred from City Hall we are glad to once again in holding
our meetings in a municipal building.
We are extremely excited to hold our annual meeting in the
Community Room of the brand new police department.
-After being barred from City Hall we are glad to once again in holding
our meetings in a municipal building.
Chief Wardwell, who was so gracious to welcome us into his
station, will be greeting us with opening remarks and words of
welcome. We look forward to hearing from the chief who helps
protect our properties and our community.
Our main guest of honor will be none other than New Britain's
Superintendent of Schools, Kelt Cooper. Superintendent Cooper
has recently taken the helm of our school district and has a plan
to get our schools, and our community back on track. He will
share his vision for the future of New Britain's schools and what
his plans will mean for us as property owners.
Finally we will be honoring one of our recently deceased
members, former Mayor, Senator, and Ct. State MV Commissioner Stanley Pac who passed
away this past year. Mayor Pac was a staunch advocate for
property owner and taxpayers'.rights and-a valued member of
our organization. We will be posthumously presenting him with
our Tax Payer Appreciation Award.
station, will be greeting us with opening remarks and words of
welcome. We look forward to hearing from the chief who helps
protect our properties and our community.
Our main guest of honor will be none other than New Britain's
Superintendent of Schools, Kelt Cooper. Superintendent Cooper
has recently taken the helm of our school district and has a plan
to get our schools, and our community back on track. He will
share his vision for the future of New Britain's schools and what
his plans will mean for us as property owners.
Finally we will be honoring one of our recently deceased
members, former Mayor, Senator, and Ct. State MV Commissioner Stanley Pac who passed
away this past year. Mayor Pac was a staunch advocate for
property owner and taxpayers'.rights and-a valued member of
our organization. We will be posthumously presenting him with
our Tax Payer Appreciation Award.
Monday, April 15, 2013
Communism Survivor Explains Why Our 2nd Amendment Rights Must Not Be Infringed
Manuel Martinez stated:
In 1957 a Revolution … individuals … malicious individuals, masquerading as Democrats, revolutionaries, established a regime … a dictatorial regime … in my nation. Called Communism, Socialism, Stalinism, Marxism, and whatever other named -ism you want to put on it. The reason why it was done was to take away the guns from the People.
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Saturday, April 13, 2013
After 17 Months of the O’Brien Administration
After 17 months of the O’Brien administration, New Britain
residents continue to suffer under
possibly the biggest tragedy in the history of New Britain
politics. What is this tragedy? Not once in all these past 17 months has there
been anything positive reported about this administration in any of the local
news media.
Since day one of O’Brien’s tenure New Britain residents
have been subjected to: broken promises, prevarications, character
assassination of the previous administration, firings of department
heads/directors, senseless dismantling of departments, manipulation of taxpayer
funds without Council approval for personal use. e.g., hiring of P.R. firm and
payments to a consultant for NO WORK done, no search committee or job posting
to hire a community organizer whose spouse is a Council member, and the list
could go on.
In November of 2011 O’Brien institutes a hiring freeze
then immediately hires Phil Sherwood to be his Communications Director; later
Phil’s title is changed to its current iteration of Deputy Chief of Staff with
multiple upward salary adjustments to its current number of ? dollars.
Later, came the multiple claims of huge deficits - don’t
know what has happened with those except, whatever was done resulted in a
lowering of the City’s Bond Rating. Water Department Reserves are depleted (by
at least $16 million) and those funds are mingled with General Fund monies.
Revenue streams are predicted from which the city gets little or nothing.
Promises made that taxes will not rise and the mill rate increases by over 8
mills. Yes, some residential property taxes will decrease but how about other
taxes such as personal property. Real estate values are decreased but that is
not a plus.
In my opinion the most flagrant abuse of New Britain
taxpayers by O’Brien has come from his appropriation of Taxpayer funds for
“personal use” to hire a P.R. Firm ($100 thousand) and a private consultant who
was hired almost a year ago (Pudlin) and paid $30 thousand for producing no
work. Both of these expenditures were the result of no bid contracts. Why were
they needed? I ask, why is this different from stealing, misuse of
taxpayer funds, fraud, etc.? If any taxpayers don’t pay their taxes, they are
assessed fines and are subject to having their properties liened.
Have you all read O’Brien’s budget? Look at the projected
revenue streams and you will see very quickly that his budget is a work of fiction.
Stay tuned, more to come.
Friday, April 12, 2013
Landlord and 911 Fees has Real Estate Agents advising customers to stay away from Investing in New Britain
Unfortunately for the city of New Britain, the Mayor and his advisers, have issued fees against landlords in addition their tax assessments.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Mayor O'Brien Calling for "No New Taxes" in His Budget Porposal to the Common Council
FRANKSMITHSAYSNB EDITORIAL:
Could it be that he had eliminated city services for the general public through reducing city personnel and leasing out the empty spaces these employees left on their way out of city hall to make up for the lost income from all the gun factories and their suppliers leaving our state because of the adverse gun laws our legislature passed recently?
Oh
Yes, he is going to borrow money to pay for the books needed for the school
system under a twenty year bond with these books being outdated within ten
years. Seems like a foolish liberal move
on the mayor's part, but then look at who we are talking about.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
New Britain Property Owners Meeting Tuesday Night:
Robert
Storace, Reporter for the New Britain Herald, reported or targeted many of the
comments made by the presenters of the facts surrounding the issues in today's
edition. Hoverer, he did include his famous
"but" By Sherwood with his
calling" it is a lies and misleading the public." "What they would be charged for is for
making nuisance calls -related calls."
What
is amazing is that Mr. Storace failed or ignored the most important vote taken by
the property owners during this event.
And that was deciding to
establish a " Political Action Committee" in order to deal with the
upcoming city election targeting the current New Britain Administration.
Or
Did Mr. Sherwood tell Mr. Storace to leave that information out of his article?
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013
SUMMATION OF BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA
Mychal Massie is a respected writer and talk show host in
Los Angeles.
The other evening on my twitter, a person asked me why I didn't like the Obama's? Specifically I was asked: "I have to ask, why do you hate the Obama's? It seems personal, not policy related. You even dissed (disrespect) their Christmas family picture."
The truth is I do not like the Obamas, what they represent, their ideology, and I certainly do not like his policies and legislation. I've made no secret of my contempt for the Obamas. As I responded to the person who asked me the aforementioned question, I don't like them because they are committed to the fundamental change of my/our country into what can only be regarded as a Communist state.
I don't hate them per definition, but I condemn them because they are the worst kind of racialists, they are elitist Leninists with contempt for traditional America . They display disrespect for the sanctity of the office he holds, and for those who are willing to admit same, Michelle Obama's raw contempt for white America is transpicuous.
I don't like them because they comport themselves as emperor and empress. I expect, no I demand respect, for the Office of President and a love of our country and her citizenry from the leader entrusted with the governance of same. President and Mrs. Reagan displayed an unparalleled love for the country and her people. The Reagan's made Americans feel good about themselves and about what we could accomplish. His arrogance by appointing 32 leftist czars and constantly bypassing congress is impeachable. Eric Holder is probably the MOST incompetent and arrogant DOJ head to ever hold the job. Could you envision President Reagan instructing his Justice Department to act like jack-booted thugs?
Presidents are politicians and all politicians are known and pretty much expected to manipulate the truth, if not outright lie, but even using that low standard, the Obama's have taken lies, dishonesty, deceit, mendacity, subterfuge and obfuscation to new depths. They are verbally abusive to the citizenry, and they display an animus for civility.
I do not like them, because they both display bigotry overtly, as in the case of Harvard Professor Louis Gates, when he accused the Cambridge Police of acting stupidly, and her code speak pursuant to now being able to be proud of America. I view that statement and that mindset as an insult to those who died to provide a country where a Kenyan, his illegal alien relatives, and his alleged progeny, could come and not only live freely, but rise to the highest, most powerful, position in the world. Michelle Obama is free to hate and disparage whites because Americans of every description paid with their blood to ensure her right to do same.
I have a saying, that "the only reason a person hides things, is because they have something to hide." No president in history has spent over a million dollars to keep his records and his past sealed.
And what the two of them have shared has been proved to be lies. He lied about when and how they met, he lied about his mother's death and problems with insurance, Michelle lied to a crowd pursuant to nearly $500,000 bank stocks they inherited from his family. He has lied about his father's military service, about the civil rights movement, ad nausea. He lied to the world about the Supreme Court in a State of the Union address. He berated and publicly insulted a sitting Congressman. He has surrounded himself with the most rabidly, radical, socialist academicians today. He opposed rulings that protected women and children that even Planned Parenthood did not seek to support. He is openly hostile to business and aggressively hostile to Israel . His wife treats being the First Lady as her personal American Express Black Card (arguably the most prestigious credit card in the world). I condemn them because, as people are suffering, losing their homes, their jobs, their retirements, he and his family are arrogantly showing off their life of entitlement - as he goes about creating and fomenting class warfare.
I don't like them, and I neither apologize nor retreat from my public condemnation of them and of his policies. We should condemn them for the disrespect they show our people, for his willful and unconstitutional actions pursuant to obeying the Constitutional parameters he is bound by, and his willful disregard for Congressional authority.
Dislike for them has nothing to do with the color of their skin; it has everything to do with their behavior, attitudes, and policies. And I have open scorn for their constantly playing the race card.
I could go on, but let me conclude with this. I condemn in the strongest possible terms the media for refusing to investigate them, as they did President Bush and President Clinton, and for refusing to label them for what they truly are. There is no scenario known to man, whereby a white president and his wife could ignore laws, flaunt their position, and lord over the people, as these two are permitted out of fear for their color.
As I wrote in a syndicated column titled, "Nero In The White House" - "Never in my life, inside or outside of politics, have I witnessed such dishonesty in a political leader. He is the most mendacious political figure I have ever witnessed. Even by the low standards of his presidential predecessors, his narcissistic, contumacious arrogance is unequalled. Using Obama as the bar, Nero would have to be elevated to sainthood... Many in America wanted to be proud when the first person of color was elected president, but instead, they have been witness to a congenital liar, a woman who has been ashamed of America her entire life, failed policies, intimidation, and a commonality hitherto not witnessed in political leaders. He and his wife view their life at our expense as an entitlement - while America's people go homeless, hungry and unemployed.”
George Courtney
Monday, April 8, 2013
Banning Guns Will Keep Us Just As Safe As Banning Wood Chippers!
Newtown Connecticut will now be forever known for the murder
of 26 people including 20 schoolchildren, but prior to December 14, Newton CT
had already achieved world prominence for another horrific murder.
For those of you who might be too young to remember, flight
attendant Helle Crafts was last seen on the night of November 19, 1986 when she
was dropped off at her Newtown home. After
her disappearance, a snowplow driver came forward and reported seeing Richard
Crafts—Helle’s husband--operating a wood chipper on the banks of Lake Zoar—also
in Newtown—on the same night that Helle had disappeared.
After an extensive search of the lake, all that was found
for remains was a piece of a tooth, a toe-nail covered in pink nail polish,
some bone chips, some bleached blond human hairs, finger nails and some traces
of type O blood—the same type as Helle.
Authorities theorized that Helle’s husband Richard had disposed of her
body by shredding it in a wood chipper on that November 19 night. Richard Crafts was ultimately convicted of
his wife’s murder and in January 1990 he was sentenced to 50 years in prison.
What made this case so newsworthy was that it was the first
time anyone had been convicted of a murder without a body being discovered. For years after and until recently, all you
seemed to hear about when referring to Newtown was that it was the site of the
famous wood chipper murder.
The only surprise is that liberals didn’t seek to ban wood
chippers as a result of this case, or at least require extensive background
checks before someone can rent one.
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