Saturday, November 30, 2013
Friday, November 29, 2013
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Monday, November 25, 2013
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Mayor Stewart's Dilemma
FRANKSMITHSAYSNB
EDITORIAL:
In a recent publication the Mayor of New Britain indicated that she will not sell the New Britain Water Bureau. This has been a constant fear of the city’s residents with O’Brien's Administration suggesting such a sale.
In a recent publication the Mayor of New Britain indicated that she will not sell the New Britain Water Bureau. This has been a constant fear of the city’s residents with O’Brien's Administration suggesting such a sale.
However, the
mayor should realize that the area that the water bureau encompasses is at
least ten times acreage of the size of New Britain.
One can
fantasize that much of the land involved is not needed for our water supply therefore;
some of this land could be sold to developers for new commercial or living
structures in order to alleviate the big financial hole that the O’Brien's
administration has left for her to wrangle out of.
Much to her
credit she immediately hired and outside auditing firm to evaluate the distress
situation she faces but, she should also have them consider the sale of water
bureau land that is not required for the production of water in order to help
her out of this mess she acquired when elected
mayor.
Only New Britain's Homeless Should Get The City's Care Sending Out of Towners Back
The Pal building has an approximately of two hundred army cots with ladies and mens showers that the senior center doesn't have. I
would strongly suggest that our Mayor should bus only the New Britain
individuals to that location by bus and bringing them back the following morning. As for the Hartford homeless migrates to our
city they should be returned to their city.
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Saturday, November 23, 2013
I Too Have Become Disillusioned With Obama
By Matt
Patterson (Newsweek Columnist – Opinion Writer
Years from now, historians may regard
the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon,
the result of a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze
of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of
professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the
world's largest economy, direct the world's most powerful military, execute the
world's most consequential job?
Imagine a future historian examining
Obama's pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League, despite
unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a
"community organizer;" a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative
achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, less often did he vote
"present"); and finally an unaccomplished single term in the United States
Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential
ambitions.
He left no academic legacy in academia,
authored no signature legislation as a legislator. And then there is the matter
of his troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who
for decades served as Obama's "spiritual mentor;" a real-life, actual
terrorist who served as Obama's colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to
imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a
man elected president?
Not content to wait for history, the
incomparable Norman Podhoretz addressed the question recently in the Wall Street
Journal: To be sure, no white candidate who had close associations with an
outspoken hater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist
like Bill Ayers, would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was
black, and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberal Dom to have hung out
with protesters against various American injustices, even
if they were 'a bit' extreme, he was given a pass. Let that sink in: Obama was
given a pass - held to a lower standard because of the color of his
skin.
Podhoretz continues: And in any case,
what did such ancient history matter when he was also so articulate and elegant
and (as he himself had said) "non-threatening," all of which gave him a fighting
chance to become the first black president and thereby to lay the curse of
racism to rest?
Podhoretz puts
his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama phenomenon -
affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But certainly in the
motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action laws and regulations, which
are designed primarily to make white people, and especially white liberals, feel
good about themselves.
Unfortunately, minorities often suffer
so that whites can pat themselves on the back. Liberals routinely admit
minorities to schools for which they are not qualified, yet take no
responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow. Liberals don't
care if these minority students fail; liberals aren't around to witness the
emotional devastation and deflated self-esteem resulting from the racist policy
that is affirmative action. Yes, racist. Holding someone to
a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin - that's affirmative
action in a nutshell, and if that isn't racism, then nothing
is.
And that is what America did to Obama.
True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but why
would he be? As many have noted, Obama was told he was good enough for Columbia
despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he
was good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois; he was
told he was good enough to be president despite no record at all in the Senate.
All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good
enough for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the
contrary.
What could this breed if not the sort
of empty narcissism on display every time Obama speaks? In 2008, many who agreed that he
lacked executive qualifications nonetheless raved about Obama's oratory skills,
intellect, and cool character. Those people – conservatives included - ought now
to be deeply embarrassed.
The man thinks and speaks in the
hoariest of clichés, and that's when he has his Teleprompters in front
of him; when the prompter is absent he can barely think or speak at all. Not one original idea has
ever issued from his mouth - it's all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that has
failed over and over again for 100 years. (An example is his 2012 campaign
speeches which are almost word for word his 2008 speeches
And what about his character? Obama is
constantly blaming anything and everything else for his troubles. Bush did it;
it was bad luck; I inherited this mess. Remember, he wanted the job, campaigned
for the task. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to
advertise his own powerless-ness, so comfortable with his own incompetence. (The
other day he actually came out and said no one could have done anything to get
our economy and country back on track). But really, what were we to
expect? The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do we expect him
to act responsibly?
In short: our
president is a small-minded man, with neither the temperament nor the intellect
to handle his job. When you understand that, and only when you understand that,
will the current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have
gone otherwise with such an impostor in the Oval Office
Friday, November 22, 2013
Gerrymandering of the Ward 5 District Vote ?
What happened in this past municipal election in Ward 5 is not something that was contrived by any of the four Common Council candidates or either of the two registrars of voters. If anything is to blame for what happened there, it can be traced back to the most recent redistricting of Ward 5 voting places. The process was supposed to result in fairly equal numbers of voters in each polling place.
As it is now, in Ward 5, Gaffney School has 457 eligible voters, DiLoreto School has 2,100+ and Pulaski School has 3,200+. This can hardly be construed as an equitable number of voters in each of the Ward 5 polling places. While it is impossible to blame this inequity on any one person, the fault clearly involved gerrymandering of the Ward 5 district in the most recent redistricting process (writer’s opinion). For example, the very short street on which I live was “carved up” so that voters on this street had to vote at three different polling places. Over 60 voters that came to Gaffney School were turned away because these people were in the wrong place. Many left the polling place disgruntled and told me they would not vote. No one can be sure how these people would have voted had they gone to the correct polling place. How Ward 2 ballots ended up at the DiLoreto School will forever be a mystery. Hardly worth blaming the mistake on a particular individual or party.
This mistake will be discussed/adjudicated by a Superior Court Judge on Nov. 25 and a decision as to how to proceed will be handed down. Two of the candidates will be unhappy. Fixing blame is not important; fixing the mistake in the best possible way is appropriate.
If any individual reading this letter knows how things got so messed up and didn’t try to do anything to fix the mistake I offer a quote from Sir Walter Scott: “Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.”
Lou Salvio
New Britain
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Former Town and City Clerk Thanks The New Britain Citizens and his Staff.
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At the same time, I would like to thank the entire staff at the town clerk’s office; without them, nothing could be accomplished. Each and every one of them do a superb job in serving the public. They do this because first they are nice people, but most importantly because they are fully knowledgeable in what they do!
Many people do not know the complexities of the town clerk’s office and what’s required to carry out all that’s done. This staff does it all and does it well. .
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Monday, November 18, 2013
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Friday, November 15, 2013
The Sherwood/O'Brien Gag & Threat Order Ended on Election Day.
Seeing many city employees, during the threat tenure of these two at
city hall, I noted the fear in their faces in public recognizing that they
would not even talk shop while in public due to fear of reprisals. One who retired a year or so ago indicated
to me "I wanted to get out of there because I couldn't stand what was
going on."
Now when meeting the same city employees in public I see smiling faces with
laughter, at our local restaurants, being free to talk shop with each other.
It is truly amazing what Erin's election has accomplished in gaining
employee loyalty in less than seven days of her becoming Mayor.
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Thursday, November 14, 2013
The Democrats are at it again!
During last night's council
meeting with the Mattabassett board of directors the common council replacing a Democrat member Edward Sasso with a former Alderman Paul Cantanzaro [ D ] which
amazingly received Alderman DeFronzo's approval when the roll call vote
took place giving David the appearance of a conflict of interest since Paul is
David's wife's brother in-law.
I guess the Democrats never need to abstain when it comes to helping
an in-law.
Paul was the Council's liaison to the Mattabasset District while serving
as an Alderman but does not bring the experience that former Mayor Pawlak would
have brought to the table.
As I also recall, being a former Mattabassett Board member myself, that Paul
only showed up when there was a dinner involved as our liaison.
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Mayor Erín Stewart Held Her First City Council Meeting Tonight
She handled herself very well throughout the entire meeting.
A motion to place Former Mayor Lucian Pawlak to the Mattabassett Board
of Directors failed, because the proposer of the motion, failed to point out
that Lucian had worked many years as a plant
employee and when he subsequently left that position, he became the plant manager of
the sewage plant at CHS in Middletown.
Lucian would have made a good director for the District but, the motion
failed, with a 5 to 10 vote.
The motion
was lost with his fellow Democrats votes.
Maybe Lucian should join the Republican party since they were the only
ones to recognize his ability and voted for him.
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Erin Stewart, was sworn in as New Britain's second Woman Mayor, By former Mayor Timothy Stewart her Father.
With all the elected officials in attendance strangely with two shunning
the affair were John McNamara , for the board of assessment and Appeals, and
Alderman David DeFronzo.
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Monday, November 11, 2013
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Two City Alderman are restrained from being able to swearing in this coming Tuesday.
Ward 5 Aldermen Roy Centeno and Carlo Carlozzi will not be sworn in until
the 17 Ballot snafu has been adjudicated and the new winners then will be sworn
in.
Friday, November 8, 2013
Attend Erin Stewart's Swearing in Ceremoney
When: Tuesday November 12th; 11:00AM
Where: New Britain High School Auditorium
110 Mill Street
New Britain, CT
The New Britain City Charter states the newly elected mayor must be sworn
in by noon no later than one week after the results are final, so join us on
Tuesday.
Feel free to bring a friend. Bob DeCosmo President, Ct Property Owners Alliance Inc |
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Thursday, November 7, 2013
ctcpoa thanks Erin for Running
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First action of our new Mayor Erin Removal of Gerratann's Wife
ERIN STEWART AND THE
NEW COUNCIL MAY HAVE TO DEAL WITH A CONFLICT OF IN TEREST PROBLEM THAT SUZANNE
BIELINSKI AND MIKE TRUEWORTHY PULLED WHEN THEY CONSPIRED TO MAKE GREG
GERRATANA'S WIFE THE COUN CIL SECRETARY. BIELINSKI IS GERRATANA'S AUNT AND SHE
AND TRUEWORTHY RAMMED THIS THROUGH AT THE LAST MINUTE. EVERYONE WHO IS OLD
ENOUGH WILL REMEMBER THAT THIS DUO PULLED THIS TRICK ONCE BEFORE WHEN THEY
HIRED A COUNCIL AUDITOR, A WOMAN WHO HAD TO RESIGN WHEN IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT
SHE FALSIFIED TIME SHEETS AND BILKED THE CITY OUT OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS.
BIELINSKI SHOULD RESIGN FROM THE COUNCIL FOR DOING THE EXACT SAME THING AGAIN.
NOTHING BUT CORRUPTION AND NEPOTISM. THE PEOPLE OF NEW BRITAIN HAVE SPOKEN,
THEY WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH BIELINSKI OR HER FAMILY. MIKE
TRUEWORTHY IS JUST A BIELINSKI FLUNKIE.
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Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Erin Stewart Wins as New Britain's New Mayor by 1,000 votes.
Gaining at least two more Republican
Alderman with her, Mark Bernacki as our new Town Clerk and she carried our tax
collector with her too. She also carried one Democratic Alderman at large that ran on her ticket Danny Salerno who also was joined with Don Naples another member of her ticket.
Greg Gerratana lost with his stapled pictures on the telephone poles at the City's voting districts.
Greg Gerratana lost with his stapled pictures on the telephone poles at the City's voting districts.
Bad Boy Gerratana up to his old tricks in breaking the law as a tax collector Candidate on the O'Brian Slate!
At many of the area voting districts Mr. Gerratana has violated the law by
stapling his picture onto the telephone poles an act that supersedes his usual
actions he displayed at the LOB and while serving as a city Alderman.
The Law:
Sec. 23-65. Posting or distributing advertisements. Removing, pruning, injuring or defacing certain trees or shrubs. Restoration. Damages. Regulations. Permit for cutting or removal. (a) Any person, firm or corporation which affixes to a telegraph, telephone, electric light or power pole, or to a tree, shrub, rock or other natural object in any public way or grounds, a playbill, picture, notice, advertisement or other similar thing, or cuts, paints or marks such tree, shrub, rock or other natural object, except for the purpose of protecting it or the public and under a written permit from the town tree warden, the borough tree warden, city forester or Commissioner of Transportation, as the case may be, or, without the consent of the tree warden or of the officer with similar duties, uses climbing spurs for the purpose of climbing any ornamental or shade tree within the limits of any public highway or grounds, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars for each offense.
(b) Any person, firm or corporation, other than a tree warden or deputy tree warden etc.
New Britain, A Look Inside the Landlord War
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Student Who Prompted CCSU Lockdown Apologizes, Says Incident Was Misunderstanding - Courant.com
Outfit That Alarmed Students Was Halloween Costume
By DAVID OWENS and CHRISTINE DEMPSEYErin's annaouncement
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Monday, November 4, 2013
Mayor O'Brien, Drunken With Power Insists He Is In Charge of CCSU Police Investigation
During an incident involving a man reportedly seen with a gun today on the campus of CCSU, Mayor Tim O'Brien showed up at the scene holding a news conference where the mayor told reporters that as the mayor of the city he is in charge of the scene and is actively directing the police response to this incident.
The only problem with this latest misdirected claim of the mayor's is that CCSU has its own police force that doesn't even work for the city and any response by New Britain officers is simply to provide assistance to the organized police force in charge of this facility. Additionally, there were state troopers, Newington Police and police from several other towns also assisting the CCSUPD in response to this incident. I guess the mayor believes he is now commanding those departments too, or should those mayors also have responded to the scene to interfere?
I wonder how Chief Jason Powell of the CCSU Police Department, a man with about 25 years of experience with the Hartford Police Dept (retiring at the rank of Captain) and at least 20 years of service as Chief of Police at CCSU likes having to take his direct commands from a man who's only work experience was bagging groceries at Stop & Shop?
I also wonder if tomorrow were not election day, if the mayor would still think he has the authority to direct police responses to emergencies or to call press conferences commenting on police emergencies in someone else's jurisdiction?
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New Britain Mayor's Race is CLOSE
We need a few more
votes for Erin Stewart to assure her victory tomorrow. Let's get these votes
from the property owner community.
Tell everyone in New Britain to vote for
Erin Stewart on Tuesday.
LET'S WIN
If people ask; why
vote for Erin?
Here are 10 facts to
explain your answer
(These are just housing related facts. Never mind
the failing schools, low city worker morale, or O'Brien's lies about creating
more jobs in the city!)
1. Erin Stewart is the best choice for Mayor of New Britain because
she has vision, is well educated, has political experience and is determined to
fix the city she was born and raised in
2. O'Brien's housing ordinances will force higher rents on tenants as
he increases costs to owners
3. Residents will get hurt
OR MAYBE EVEN DIE as people won't call 9-1-1 when the see a crime because
O'Brien plans to collect 2 million dollars in fines from these calls ....this is
verified and in his 2013 - 2014 city budget.
4. The Mayor's wife was arrested for blocking the entrance to I-84
one week after O'Brien was elected in 2011. She works for a radical group called
the Connecticut Center for a New Economy
5. The Mayor took millions of dollars from the Water Department and
illegally shifted it to the General Fund because he can't write a budget that
works or controls spending.
6. The Mayor authorized an emergency no-bid tax-payer funded
expenditure of $100,000 to hire a PR Firm to handle the marketing of his 9-1-1
Hot Spot Fee....To date we can see no use of the funds and fear the money has
been used illegally for campaign purposes, CTPOA is now filing a Freedom of information
request to find out where the money went!
7. O'Brien forgave property taxes to a non-profit group for what
appears to be their help in campaigning for his re-election bid
8. He silenced public speaking just like a Communist Dictator on his
housing ordinances by ordering the votes be taken at "Sheriff Call Council
Meetings" where public input is prohibited.
9. Moved a Council Meeting to vote on his amended Landlord Licensing
Ordinance to Connecticut's Day of Remembrance. We asked our members to stay home to honor
the Sandy Hook Victims, he made his Council vote to illegally tax
landlords
10. He ordered our American Flags confiscated at city hall and later
these flags got thrown into the garbage pail just days after our country honored
its Veterans at our Rally at City Hall last November.
Elect Erin Stewart On Row
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Sunday, November 3, 2013
Put An End To The Insanity In New Britain!
Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and expecting a different result.
The current mayor has given you one of the highest tax increases ever to hit New Britain while all the time lying to everyone by denying that he raised your taxes. Even though most of your tax bills increased drastically he continues to look you in the face and tell you that your taxes did not go up.
If he was a man of his word, he would personally pay that portion of each and every tax bill that is higher than last year's bill. After all, he continues to swear repeatedly that he did not raise anyone's taxes, so if he is telling the truth, there would not be one bill for him to pay. The only problem is that just about everyone I talk to is outraged over how high their individual taxes increased this year--the year that O'Brien made New Britain the city with the 2nd highest taxes in the entire state!
If Dr. Einstein's definition of insanity is correct, then wouldn't it be truly insane to vote for this mayor and not expect him to jack up your taxes again and again?
Saturday, November 2, 2013
Gerratana For Tax Collector???
The New Britain Herald Editorial regarding Greg Gerratana's 2009
campaign for Tax Collector which appeared on September20, 2009 read as follows:
"Gerratana is the Democratic candidate for tax collector, a position which
requires the highest perception of integrity.
As a result, The Herald has some concerns about Gerratana's
qualifications for that office, given the adolescent nature of his actions. His
party subsequently, made him resign from this campaign."
Now Mr. Gerratana is running again for the same position in the 2013
campaign with Mayor O'Brien sanctioning him to be on his slate for the same
position and I recently called it a lapse of memory the mayor's part, however;
with his inclusion of Mr. Gerratana on his ticket, it demonstrates that Mayor
O'Brien doesn't care about protecting the taxpayers’ interests but only wants
to help elect his friends that will do whatever he wants. This has been his method of operation
throughout the tenure of his administration.
The Mayor happened to be the state
representative that had to relieve Greg from his position at the LOB as his
assistant, therefore; he cannot claim he wasn't aware of the facts. And the Mayor was also aware when Greg was
serving as a New Britain Alderman and he did so while residing at his mother's
pool house located in Berlin and while she was a state elections enforcement
commissioner.
Hey Greg: your Mama cannot deny
you were in the wrong while you were serving on the Common Council while a
resident of Berlin, nor can she cover for you over your abuse of state
computers. Your Mama cannot save you
this time.
The citizens, taxpayers, businesses, Landlords and their tenants will
all suffer if O'Brien gets re-elected with his initiating his proposed
apartment, inspection and hotspot fees.
The public also deserves to be protected against a person the New
Britain Herald Editorial Board described as an adolescent gaining access to
their personal information over city computers, especially since this adolescent
has demonstrated a history of abusing government computers he was trusted with
access to.
It is time to rid such an incompetent person as O’Brien from his office
as the city's mayor and it is also in the best interest of the public’s safety
and well being that someone who has proven himself to be so unworthy of the
public’s trust--as Greg Gerratana has previously demonstrated--not be elected
to an office that has such great potential for abuse of his office. The fact that the mayor would accept a person
with such a questionable character on his ticket should cause each and every
one of you to seriously question the mayor’s judgment.
Friday, November 1, 2013
O'Brien's Administration Promise to Not Raise Taxes "Failed."
While running for Mayor, Representative O'Brien promised not
to raise taxes but, once elected mayor, he did raise taxes considerably. Even worse, after raising taxes, he began lying to people by denying that he jacked up their taxes. He perpetrated this lie to the point where whenever a taxpayer confronted him with a hugely increased tax bill, he had the gall to tell those taxpayers they were wrong about their tax increases even though their tax bills increased drastically from the previous year.
Even after passing the highest tax increase I can ever recall to hit New Britain, Mayor O'Brien needed to raid the water Department for $12 million just to cover the increased spending of his administration which included forgiving $5.5 million that HRA owed in taxes based on an agreement that was filed on the land records. Some legal experts believe that both of these actions were illegal, but when did this group of radicals that now control City Hall ever show any concern about whether their actions were legal or not?
Even after passing the highest tax increase I can ever recall to hit New Britain, Mayor O'Brien needed to raid the water Department for $12 million just to cover the increased spending of his administration which included forgiving $5.5 million that HRA owed in taxes based on an agreement that was filed on the land records. Some legal experts believe that both of these actions were illegal, but when did this group of radicals that now control City Hall ever show any concern about whether their actions were legal or not?
The court Injunction that stopped the O'Brien Administration from placing
into effect the landlord licensing fees of $150 per unit, inspection fees, and
the hot spot fees for calls by tenants against the landlords ends on election
day and if Mayor O'Brien is re-elected he will impose his proposed regulations onto
the landlords--thus forcing them to raise all their rents to the tenants in
order to survive this onslaught by this deranged administration.
The tenants who already have experienced their car taxes raised from
34.2 to 47.6 mills are now looking forward to rental increases caused by the
re-election of Mayor O'Brien.
It is advisable for all of the city's tenants to vote for the Republican ticket to put an end to all this madness that is potentially going to cause their rents to skyrocket even higher than all of our taxes already have under this administration.
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