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Thursday, May 7, 2009

CITY COMMISSIONERS: TAX DELINQUENCIES

The following city Commissioners or elected officials are listed on the delinquent tax list for motor vehicle taxes as of March 4, 2009. This same list was used to report the delinquent taxes for members of the city council and both the Democratic and Republican Town Committees, so in fairness to those individuals, I am reporting anyone who was listed as delinquent on that same date.

Fairview Cemetery Commission:
Harry S. Plaut $66.61 (also a member of the RTC)
(Harry S. Plaut is also listed as the owner/manager of the H.S. Plaut Cemetery Co. which is shown as owing the city $689.32 in delinquent taxes for two separate vehicles.)

Veteran’s Commission:
Chester S. Pietras $ 100.65

Human Rights & Opportunities:
Gladys Navedo $187.15

Housing Authority:
Gary V. Riley $370.37

Civil Service Commission:
Commissioner Homer Q. White $453.03
Appointee Michael T. Yagmin $574.64

Plan Commission:
John P. Evelth Jr. $197.74

Commission of Community & Neighborhood Development:
Peter Spano $542.28 (also Secretary of the DTC)
Alphonse Wright $ 371.90 (Chair of the commission and also a member of the RTC)

Housing Code Board of Appeals:
Nicholas J. Paonessa $84.09 (also a member of the RTC)
Peter Oshana $73.46

Board of Fire Commissioners:
Donald R. Gregory $448.09 (also a member of the RTC) (Commissioner Gregory has reported that he paid this bill on 4/29 and issued a public apology for his late payment)

Constables:
Alton Brooks $82.52 (also a member of the DTC)

Board of Assessment Appeals:
Nicholas J. Paonessa $84.09 (also a member of the RTC)

Print Version: Time-honored dishonor---Republican American Editorial

Print Version: Time-honored dishonor

Lawmakers pushing for cheaper energy - The New Britain Herald (newbritainherald.com)

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

How Rotten Is Acorn?

2/8/09 EPI Op-Ed: Stimulus bill funds ACORN despite its history of corruption.
How Rotten
Is ACORN?
Learn the Truth

Click here to read our report on ACORN

According to the law, registered voters must sign, print their name and list their address on petitions calling for a ballot initiative. It doesn't take a handwriting expert to see that many of these were filled out by the same person. (Also, see pages 30-42 and take note of the signatures — a bit odd to sign your last name first, isn't it.)

ACORN Is A Bad Seed
Something’s rotten in the state of New Mexico, and Ohio, and Michigan, and Pennsylvania, and Florida, and…

ACORN says it is a community group, but it is really a multi-million-dollar, multinational conglomerate. Its political agenda is driven by a relative handful of anti-corporate activists. ACORN spends millions of dollars to promote economic policies (like raising the minimum wage), but has admitted that it doesn't always want to abide by them. ACORN advocates for workers' rights and runs two unions, but has in the past fought its own employees' efforts to form a union.

ACORN's history makes for pretty interesting reading. The Clinton Administration found that ACORN was misspending government grants designed to help counsel the poor. Although it seeks minimum wage increases in cities and states across the country -- ACORN sued the state of California to get out of paying its own employees the state minimum wage.

ACORN's practices have corrupted our political process as well. It has engaged in questionable election activities for years—stretching back even to the organization's founding years in Arkansas. In recent years, as its political power has increased, so have instances of fraud.

In the past few years, it has been investigated for election fraud in at least a dozen states. Want examples?

In Florida, ACORN employees filed a false voter registration form for 68-year-old former St. Petersburg Democratic mayor Charles Schuh – amazingly, they registered him as a 30-year-old Republican woman. In Ohio, ACORN and its affiliate Project Vote submitted registration cards that had the highest rate of errors for any voter registration group. In Colorado, two ex-ACORN employees were convicted of turning in false registrations. The list goes on.

Just last year, in an effort to put a wage initiative on the ballot in Albuquerque, New Mexico, ACORN employee's forged thousands of fraudulent signatures. The group is involved in initiative efforts in a half-dozen states this year. How many thousands of signatures will they forge to forward their agenda?

It's time to send a message to ACORN. It is time to end the corruption.

Employment Policies Institute
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Washington, DC 20005
202-463-7650
info@epionline.org

ACORN Could Be Eligible for $8.5 Billion This Year

It Is Free Americans That Will Save Us, Not Government!

Republican Town Committee Has Its Own Tax Delinquents!

As I promised earlier in the week, if someone would provide me with the list of RTC members, I would check them against the same motor vehicle tax delinquency list on which I found 4 Democratic Aldermen, and 5 Democratic Town Committee members listed. I found that as of March 4, 2009, there were 4 Republican Town Committee members listed as delinquent on their motor vehicle taxes:

DONALD GREGORY $ 448.09
NICHOLAS J. PAONESSA 84.09
HARRY PLAUT 66.61
ALPHONSE WRIGHT 371.90

Although the number of individuals and the dollar amounts are significantly lower for the Republicans, the fact remains that if someone is going to run for public office, the public has a right to expect them to pay their taxes the same way the rest of us are expected to.
For this reason, on Election Day the voters need to remember not to return those aldermen who are tax delinquents, especially those who say it is none of your business if they don’t pay their taxes!

Print Version: David Broder: Can Detroit's Big 3 survive?

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Conflicts Of Interest Still Exist On The Common Council

Congratulations should be given to Alderman Paul Catanzaro for his resigning from the HRA commission which terminated his conflict of interest with the HUD agency. However the HUD funds are still being held back from city agencies, that provide for our poor, because other Alderman refuse to eliminated their conflict of interest that continue to exist.

America Rising!

Monday, May 4, 2009

Robert J. Samuelson - The Obama Administration's Bias Against Oil and Natural Gas

TheDay.com - Banning Obama From Speech At Notre Dame Not Solution

Boston Globe will close in a few weeks

News Alert 1:30 a.m. ET Monday, May 4, 2009
N.Y. Times to File Notice it Will Close Boston Globe
The New York Times Co. said last night that it is notifying federal authorities of its plans to shut down the Boston Globe, raising the possibility that New England's most storied newspaper could cease to exist within weeks. - By Howard Kurtz

For more information, visit washingtonpost.com

Sunday, May 3, 2009

NEW BRITAIN DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP: TAX DELINQUINCIES ABOUND!

Democratic Town Committee Tax Delinquent Hall of Shame:

Town Committee Member: Delinquent Amount as of March 4, 2009:

Alton Brooks $82.52
George Gay $2,102.22
Nicholas Jakubowski $410.77
Margaret L. (Peggy) Shorey $96.37
Peter Spano-committee secretary 542.28

As most of my readers are aware, On April 15th I originally exposed that 4 Democratic members of the city council were delinquent for a total of $1,927.94 worth of motor vehicle taxes to the City of New Britain.

Thanks to one of my readers posting information on the current members of the Democratic Town Committee, I took the liberty of checking those elected committee members against the same tax delinquency list I used on April 15th. I chose not to seek an updated list from the tax collector, as I felt that it wouldn’t be fair to the 4 aldermen I exposed in my previous reports, to not hold these committee members to the same standards. To my surprise, I found that 5 Town Committee members were listed as being delinquent as of March 4th-- owing the city a total of $3,234.16

The New Britain Herald quoted Committee Chairman John McNamara as having said “As Democrats, we believe that elected officials should act in the public’s interest,” so I wonder how he is going to respond when he finds out that 5 members of his own town committee (one of them his own committee secretary) don’t believe in paying their taxes either?