Letters To
The Editor
In his
recent written masterpiece “Things That Matter”, syndicated columnist,
Charles Krauthammer wrote. [ “Know Thyself” is a highly overrated piece of
wisdom. As for knowing the self of others, forget it. Know what they do and
judge them by their works ] Excellent advice! I offer some comments to two letter
writers that contributed recently in a local news paper.
First. If
you are a Democrat Party member of a governing body on which there are two
Republicans and thirteen Democrats, you can cherry pick issues on which you can
vote, seemingly, against Party, look like a hero and not be chastised by your
Party. Dave DeFronzo of the New Britain Common Council does this with aplomb.
In a letter to a local Weekly paper, he cites many examples of presumably being
his own man when he votes on critical City issues going against Party
Leadership.
Dave is
rankled by the recent decision of the New Britain/Berlin Chamber of Commerce
Board of Directors to name Timothy T. Stewart as its President. Dave cites the
fact that the City of New Britain allocates $23,000 to the CoC Annually and
since Mr. Stewart is the father of our Mayor. that relationship could affect
her ability to make budgetary decisions that might affect her father. WHAT ?
Perhaps that kind of behavior might be true of you Dave but please, don.’t
paint everyone with a brush that depicts you. For you Dave, this is just a
personal vendetta.
Dave, you
are full of puerile protestations such as this, they are part of your
personality. On the other hand, you had nothing to say when Mayor Pro Tem Mike
Trueworthy and Majority Leader Suzanne Bielinski engineered the hiring of
Bielinski’s niece (by marriage) to be Council Secretary, raise her salary to
over $60,000, and place her in a Union where she clearly does not belong. Oh,
and you get away with that Dave because you can say, I have/had nothing to do
with that. Well Dave, you have nothing to do with naming the President of the
CoC but you certainly didn’t shy away from projecting your own brand of
innuendo into a non partisan procedure of a non partisan organization.
Take
Krauthammer’s advice, Dave! And while you’re at it, look in the mirror ... what
do you see?
Lou
Salvio
New Britain
4 comments:
Landslide Louie tells it like it is because someone has to.
Hey Apeboy DeFronzo. Son of Monkey man Defonzo, I have to ask, between you and Lopes, who is more jelious of the other ? Him because you have the last name DeFronzo, or you because daddy treats him more like a son then you. Let's face it, Daddy Don has always been there for Lopes, got him on council, gave him a job as his aid, then moved him to DAS and gave him a job there too. And just recently tapped him to replace No'Brien as state rep..... And then there is you, the elementary school GYM teacher which we all know isn't a real teacher.
What do they have to teach a gym teacher besides how to blow a whistle?
Locker rooms (and the bathrooms in the locker room and the gymnasium area) are among the areas that physical education teachers are responsible for supervising. When teachers fail to monitor and respond to inappropriate student behavior in locker rooms, they invite incidents of bullying, name-calling, taunting and hazing.
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