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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Kevin...you forgot the ex Mayor's political aides like Lew Brown.

311 needs to go

More department heads and deputy department heads then you mentioned need to go, assuming there are adaquate replacements.

The entire city funding of "certain" non-profits in which city politicians might be residing or political operatives are working..like OPMAD for instance....needs to be stopped...

ending the "favortism" of Hector Robles( an employee of the city police department and a state representative of the once powerful 6th district) needs to be stopped...his 5 or 6 internal investagations were quelled and should be made public...I hear some were really terrible.

No show or virtually no show jobs at the BOE like Mr Medina...and Roldan should be shown the door...

there should be an end to privitizing our tax collection thru Tax Serve.

Pedro should refuse a drive due to the dire straits Hartford is in.

The city should end memberships in do nothing or obstructive organizations like the MetroAlliance.

Sweetheart development deals..like to Reverand Walker and sweetheart parking deals to Abe Giles should end.

the next corporation council and other high level jobs should be selcted on the basis of education.espertize and experience not because they are politically connected in Hartford.

the city needs a creditible lobbyist up at the capital.

July 13, 2010 at 12:11 AM

Anonymous Oscar said...

Very, very accurate picture of what needs to happen in Hartford. This is a great opportunity to clean house and start over.

July 13, 2010 at 7:36 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

What about the over-priced Director of Capital Assets, James Keaney and his SUV? There has to be some money to be saved there.

July 13, 2010 at 7:57 AM

Anonymous Jeff said...

There's a lot of good stuff in this blog entry Kevin but the most important thing is you're back to full strength. Welcome back!

July 13, 2010 at 8:33 AM

Anonymous peter brush said...

Human Relations Director Lillian Ruiz....gone, gone, gone.

Get rid of the entire affirmative discrimination operation.

July 13, 2010 at 9:08 AM

Blogger Matt said...

Something I particularly like is the paragraph on pumping money into parks. Image is so critical.

When an investor drives through the city trying to decide if they want to spend money on a new project in Hartford what kind of message are we sending when there's weeds and trash all over the parks? If you can't keep your own "home" clean to the average observer one has to wonder how dirty the hidden aspects of the city are.

July 13, 2010 at 11:06 AM

Anonymous Bruce RUbenstein said...

I do like Luis Cotto's attempt to revive and maintain the parks..it is so necessary in bad times to give folks an opportunity for some r&r in a park.I think Luis is certainly the sparkplug to refurbish our parks and he is doing a real good thing here.

July 13, 2010 at 1:13 PM

Anonymous Gigi said...

Kevin,
I am glad that you are recovering nicely and posting again. The city of Hartford needs you to keep an eye on things. Your postings are always informative and I always look forward to your input. Needless to say you will have a lot to report on in the next weeks and months.

July 13, 2010 at 7:33 PM

Anonymous Quint said...

What about the dishonorable former mayor's boyz in Development Services???

July 13, 2010 at 8:08 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Eddie Perez's former team members should all be replaced. An audit on the necessity of so many awful deputy directors resulting in immediate terminations. Lillian Ruiz, Sarah Barr, the entire administration of the dept. of children services, and DPW admin. overseeing parks and cemeteries should be reviewed and removed immediately. I've never understood why in a city as poor as Hartford the mayor needed a press secretary (just like in the white house) to be paid thousands of dollars a year to issue 3 line 'statements'. Pension packages and free health insurance to so many of these shills should be available for public scrutiny. A list of all contractual services during the Perez administration should be audited as well. After all, they were paid by the taxpayers in Hartford. So many of these shills survived because Hartford residents have short attention spans!

July 13, 2010 at 8:37 PM

Anonymous peter brush said...

A very insensitive comment regarding New England's Rising Star from the Waterbury "Republican" this a.m. I hadn't realized we were borrowing the money nor that the BUB was a dept. store...
Furthermore

MAKING IT ALL BETTER: One of new Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra's first acts was to borrow up to $1.1 million, to be repaid mostly with money confiscated from taxpayers outside of Hartford, to buy a former department store, known locally as "Butt Ugly Building," so the city can demolish it for downtown redevelopment (nee urban renewal); details will be announced if a developer eager to be shaken down by city officials steps forward. More likely, the property will become another parking lot in a neighborhood of parking lots, which together with Butt Ugly were at the center of the corruption trial of former Mayor Eddie Perez. But to the political and media elite, removing this eyesore and monument to government corruption is imperative because Butt Ugly has come to symbolize all that's wrong with Hartford. Moreover, it's much easier to tear down a symbol than it is to correct all that's economically, educationally, culturally and politically wrong with Hartford.

July 14, 2010 at 8:10 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Segerra is not moving fast enough, the city can do quite well without Lydia Rosario, Lillain Ruiz, Eric Jackson and lets not forget about Keaney and Corcini, these departments just to name a few do not need any of these persons. Come on Segarra do right by the people of this CITY. Adomowski knows his free rent is up and he is so moving on. The rest need a little push.

July 14, 2010 at 5:43 PM

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