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Democrats Hijack Council for Political Agenda

admin — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:00:58 +0000

As mentioned in this post Alderman Trueworthy has succeed in undermining the political process for the sake of his party’s agenda. At the April 28th Council Meeting Democratic Alderman Michael Trueworthy brought forth a resolution that would state the Common Council’s support for the Citizen’s Election Program. As other new analysts have already stated, this [...]

Democrats redefine ‘Clean Campaign’

admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:46:36 +0000

Tim O’Brien has been calling for a “clean campaign” repeatedly in the press. For those who have not followed the latest news from the New Britain Herald, check out these articles – they are worth your time:

Political Smears against the Mayor Trace to the State Capitol Attacks on his wife raise ire of Salvio OUR VIEW: Anonymity [...]

Ethics Violations Everywhere

admin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:22:04 +0000

For those who have not read about it else where the State Democrats are sweeping ethics violations under the rug as effectively as the local New Britain Democrats. This past week Democrats Thomas Gaffey and Joseph Crisco both avoided censure from their party after receiving some of the heftiest fines ever from the Elections Enforcement [...]

William McNamara Resigns

admin — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:54:20 +0000

Former Mayor and Democrat William McNamara resigned as chief of the Ethics Commission. This action was taken in response to the February 11th decision by the Democrats of the City Council to reject the Commissions unanimous recommendation to reprimand alderman Paul Catanzaro. While the commission’s Republicans and Democrats voted unanimously to reprimand Mr. Catanzaro, the [...]

New Britain Democrats – Weak on Ethics

admin — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:43:48 +0000

Last Wednesday, February 11th, the Common Council of New Britain voted to reject the findings of the town ethics board which had concluded that Paul Cantazaro has acted inappropriately and had violated ethics guidelines. While the Democrats claim that the charges against Cantazaro are the result of partisan politics the 13-2 party line vote shows [...]