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"WHAT A DIFFERENCE A BORDER MAKES"

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Anonymous Honest Abe said...

Kevin..you are not going to get "better" from the Council...they are mostly an incompetant and self-serving lot who dont care as long as their dirty deal or special deal for a friend or ally goes thru or friend of theirs gets an appointment.

November 8, 2010 at 4:20 PM

Anonymous peter brush said...

Rumor has it that the ethics commission, all three of its members, will take it up at next meeting.
Unless I'm mistaken, council-critters should be ashamed.

November 8, 2010 at 5:32 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

In West Hartford you have the Democratic members of the Caucus basically telling one of their own to step down. It's kinda obvious that the Republicans would want any Dem to step down.

In Hartford where there is only one Republican on the Council, me thinks it's on the GOP town committee to make that call.

A call from council for Ms. Airey-Wilson to resign is as useless as Peter's Brush.

November 8, 2010 at 11:20 PM

Anonymous peter brush said...

A call from council for Ms. Airey-Wilson to resign is as useless as Peter's Brush.
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Incorrect. Brush in no position of authority. Individuals on Council should speak out on Airey-Wilson, and the Council as a whole should use its charter power to investigate, make a judgment, and remove her. Republican Town Committee should speak out,perhaps, but it can't remove her. When time comes for nominating candidates (spring?), the RTC should decline to nominate her.

November 9, 2010 at 7:50 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Heard though the grapevine that there will not be a next time. Chances are the councilwoman will take advantage of the city's early retirement incentive program before the end of the year. Look for her nephew Atty. Brinson to be tapped next in line.

"Brush in no position of authority" = Hillarious

November 9, 2010 at 7:57 AM

Anonymous peter brush said...

If she'd been convicted or had copped a plea she'd be ineligible to vote or to hold office. Perhaps litigation would determine that accelerated rehab equivalent for purposes of state law. But, presumably, if she were convicted the council would have to remove her.
But, in the present circumstances the council may investigate her taking of graft and apply a suitable punishment according to its standards.
It has a moral obligation, it seems to me, to break its silence on the question.

November 9, 2010 at 8:01 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

hmmm, a "moral obligation" to deal with Veronica Airey-Wilson. Is there a similar obligation in dealing with the law abiding residents of this City who are undocumented? Am interested to know where one's sense of "Moral Obligation" begins and ends.

November 9, 2010 at 9:46 AM

Anonymous Honest Abe said...

Given the prolification of criminals,corrupt and incompetant's in the Hartford political scene in both major parties and according to Hartford political Standards, a AR plea or a conviction now would be an appropriate accomplishment to obtain an endorsement of office by either major party.

November 9, 2010 at 2:07 PM

Anonymous peter brush said...

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/11/bridgeports_missing_republican.html

Bridgeport is certainly not the sort of idyllic Norman Rockwell town found throughout most of Connecticut. It has long endured political corruption and patronage, high rates of poverty and crime, a shrinking economy, a declining population, and more recently, an infestation of radical progressive groups such as ACORN, AFL-CIO, WFP, and SEIU. Bridgeport did not earn the nickname "Chicago of the East" for nothing...
...Also, it is important to acknowledge there has been a perceptible shift to the left in Connecticut over the last decade, and registered Democrats now outnumber Republicans nearly two to one. The Democrat party controls both houses of the Connecticut General Assembly with overwhelming majorities. Democrats also hold all five U.S. congressional districts and both U.S. Senate seats.

This is truly a deep-blue liberal state, and it is has the enormous budget deficit and sanctuary cities to prove it. Connecticut has the "highest tax-supported debt" of any state in the nation and suffered the embarrassment of having its bond rating lowered earlier this year.

November 15, 2010 at 12:48 PM

Anonymous peter brush said...

Only recently one of the most powerful members of Congress, Rangel was reduced to pleading in vain for colleagues to give him time to raise money for a lawyer before taking up the charges. The 80-year-old congressman left even before they said no, and the rare proceeding — only the second for this type of hearing in two decades — went on without him.

An ethics committee panel of four Democrats and four Republicans was sitting as a jury in the case late Monday. The official acting as prosecutor said the facts were so clear there was no need to call witnesses, and panel members agreed.
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City council on Airey-Wilson? Crickets.

November 15, 2010 at 6:02 PM

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