New Haven Independent

posted by: Threefifths on July 26, 2010  7:43am

Why do White politician love to use African American children in there photo opp.

posted by: Cedarhillresident on July 26, 2010  8:04am

I am in to! GO MALLOY!!!!!!!!!!!

posted by: Wag on July 26, 2010  8:34am

I knew that King John’s endorsement of Lamont would be a kiss o’death. I remember when Looney ran against the King for mayor. Wish he’d won then.

posted by: Mitch Beck on July 26, 2010  8:37am

I mean no disrespect to ANYONE…I was a comedian for more than 20 years and just had to say something…

Is it me or am I the only one that finds it funny that a guy named “Looney” is embraced by anyone for an endorsement?

Is this how the acceptance speech starts?

“It’s good to see Mr. & Mrs. Looney here today and I am thankful and proud to accept the support of all the Loonies…”

I could go on, but you get the point. If Mr. Malloy is happy then good for him, but to me, it’s just pretty funny and I mean no disrespect to Mr. and Mrs. Looney or any of the other Looney’s in their house….

Sorry I had to go there…

posted by: john on July 26, 2010  8:54am

Looney the consummate politician , What great leadership has he shown? Guess malloy the party candidate . All the party hacks are climbing on his wagon , so they can keep feeding off the public feedbag.Meanwhile the roads crumble, the schools keep dropping the scohlastic ratings,Roads are jammed,and the grid lock will continue in Hartford,  Connecticut high cost of doing business continues. What a joke then I guess people wanted a laugh and must still need one , Cause they continue to elect the same jerks to office. Throw them all out and lets start over.

posted by: cba on July 26, 2010  9:27am

This endorsement may be worth a total of perhaps 6 to 8 votes ,and is of no substantial consequence except to fill a slow news day.

posted by: ctkeith on July 26, 2010  9:35am

All they needed was Ed Marcus and they would have completed the entire Slime Brigade that destroyed the Democratic Party while “doing Business” with to John Rowland.

posted by: Westville Mom on July 26, 2010  9:40am

Threefifths—-(As if you don’t know already) it’s because they think you’re too uneducated to see the hypocrisy.  ... a condition they perpetuate by throwing gargantuan amounts of money into worthless urban-school education “reforms” with paltry (and shameful) results, based on the hubris of Ivy-League know-it-all-ism.

Meanwhile, this phrase “the suburban-dominated legislature” should read “the Democratic-dominated legislature”—- but we’re all too stupid to see that, too.

Or maybe the strategy of this election is being deliberately directed to pit “suburban” against “urban.”?  A difference of inherent worth?  Urban is “good” ... suburban is “bad”?  What about rural?  What about small towns?  Villages? Farms? Suburbans who live in apartments or condos?  Are they all “bad”?  Really?  REALLY?

Don’t fall for it people.  You’re being manipulated.  Put your thinking caps on and realize that this state has been run for decades by Democrats and RINO Republicans.  What we REALLY need after all this time is a tea-drinker. Who might that be? Do we even have a single one in this state?

posted by: Cedarhillresident on July 26, 2010  9:44am

cba

He is getting endorsement after endorsement throughout the state…this is just one of many. Many are endorsing Ned because they feel he has deep pockets to beat the republicans. That is not a reason to support a person. You have to support the person you feel can do the job right! The one you feel has the balls to do the right thing…. I have been paying close attention to Malloy stand on things and truly believe that he is for ALL the people of the state…not just the chosen few!!!!

posted by: Mike Campa on July 26, 2010  10:34am

This endorsement is great because we see the solid reasons why Malloy should be elected governor. 
By contrast, when it comes to the Machine’s candidate, Lamont, we only hear platitudes and cream puff excuses why party machines in Bridgeport and New Haven are backing Lamont.  He has no experience whatsoever, just big donations from fat cats and the millions he inherited from daddy. 
Malloy on the other hand accepts no more than $100 from any single person. Maybe that’s the problem with the political machines in New Haven and Bridgeport; they know Malloy cannot be bought by the special interest groups including machine bosses who have their hands out. 
Our entire state, including New Haven, will be far better off with a governor who understands how to get the Hartford Bureaucrats off their butts and working to make Connecticut better for all of us.

posted by: ctkeith on July 26, 2010  10:56am

Christine,

Could you show me the evidence you have to justify the headline which state as fact that this race is “tightening”.

My sources say just the opposite.

posted by: Ctkeith on July 26, 2010  11:22am

What’s the minority turnout going to look like in the general for Malloy after Tom Foley hands Chris Healy a Half a million to promote this in the cities,

http://www.fairfieldcitizenonline.com/default/article/Racist-threats-case-filed-by-Stamford-High-107476.php

Malloy is unelectable,period.

posted by: Urbans on July 26, 2010  11:29am

If Ned is sooooo good, then he should debate and let us decide.  Can’t vote for him if he won’t debate Malloy.  Plus, Ned does not have the commitment to education like Malloy does.  This is one election that Lamont’s money can’t buy.

posted by: mikepc45 on July 26, 2010  12:21pm

Connecticut voters do not be fooled. None of these candidates wants to cut spending. Eliminate unfunded state mandates. Balance the budget without borrowing or raising taxes. Not asking to state employees for give backs and contributions. Rowland a crook is on the state payroll I believe. The guy from Milford I cannot remember his name, tried to get a state job that was created for him. Dodd gave the Indian casinos 53 million in stimulus money.Blumenthal is a liar.Rosa DeLauro no longer screams about the wars in Iraq and Afghan land because Obama and her cohorts are in charge.If they are in vote them out. If need be, and I loath to say this, don’t vote as a protest. They applies to Dems, Repubs, Libs, and Conservs a like. Long live the Republic.

posted by: FIX THE SCHOOLS on July 26, 2010  1:17pm

On education…

Both Malloy and Lamont pander to the CEA and the AFT.  Lamont has the formal union endorsement while Malloy has never really challenged the Stamford union when he was mayor.  Both dems believe in, or are beholden to “fixing” education by pouring more money into a broken and corrupt system.  This is the wrong way to go.

Marty Looney, on the other hand has bucked the typical democratic position and has been very strong on education and supporting achievement-gap closing schools.  And despite receiving political threats from teacher union ..., he has never backed down - not once.

Looney for Governor!

posted by: jayj on July 26, 2010  1:38pm

Urbans, I stand right with you.  I would never vote for a candidate who wouldn’t debate.  I’m voting for Malloy even if I have to pencil him in on the final ballot!

posted by: B on July 26, 2010  2:36pm

I’m with Ned!

Trains, Bicycles, Smart Health Care policies and more attention to New Haven than the suburbs and Hartford.

The last thing we need in the State House is someone who comes from our broken style of governing in CT.

A CEO is just fine by me.

Opposing someone because you don’t like the person who supports them is absolutely ridiculous and plays to the politics that ruins elections and gets bad people elected.

If John is voting for him you probably should to because his selfish interests are New Haven’s selfish interests at the end of the day whether you like him or not.

posted by: ctkeith on July 26, 2010  3:56pm

Sorry you weren’t interested in the first 25 debates that were held over the last few months.

I bet you didn’t attend one of them or even watch the video that was provided of them on a few of cts blogs.

I think I know know why Lamont decided not to attend the 26th debate though.He thought Malloys Time could be beter spent Rehabbing his Double Felon Oldest son and his racist youngest son instead of spending time doing Debate Prep.

http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/news_wtnh_stamford_mayor_son_arrest_200903042202_rev1

http://www.fairfieldcitizenonline.com/default/article/Racist-threats-case-filed-by-Stamford-High-107476.php

The apple really doesn’t fall far from the tree.

posted by: CTBullMoose on July 26, 2010  3:57pm

Mike Campa, have you even bothered to look at the amount of cash that Malloy got from contractors and city employees?  Malloy can’t be bought now because he cashed in long ago.

Urbans, the Channel 30 debate is online—go check it out.  Or, go to either candidate’s website and watch the HOURS of video they both have up.  Not buying your unsubstantiated argument about education either.

Though a good guy, ...  I can’t for the life of me figure out why [Looney would] want to jump in so late.  Maybe some sour grapes?

posted by: The Professor on July 27, 2010  3:04am

This is absolutely insane.  Malloy is basically getting these endorsements by default because Looney, Holder-Winfield, Jackson-Brooks, and their ilk are too childish to actually think through this decision.  They saw that the Mayor endorsed Lamont, so they figured that they’d endorse Malloy just so they wouldn’t be on the same side as the Mayor.

I’d expect this sort of garbage from ... Smart, James, and maybe Goldson, but I thought Looney and Holder-Winfield might have some sense of maturity.  Instead, they’re supporting Dan Malloy, who has in these past few weeks shown that he is willing to embrace the politics of negativity and win at any cost.

Dan Malloy has spent the last few weeks doing everything he can to tear down Ned Lamont by smearing him with false accusations.  When Malloy’s back went up against the wall, he showed that he’s in this solely to expand his own political power—he’s more interested in tearing down Lamont than in solving problems.

I’m not a big Lamont booster by any stretch of the imagination.  In fact, I initially favored Malloy over Lamont, since I tend to think that people harping on business successes as some indicator that they’ll do a good job as government executives is offputting and intellectually questionable.  But these past few weeks have put me squarely in Lamont’s corner.

Also, it’s no secret that I’m a pretty big fan of the current administration.  But calling it and its supporters a “machine” is insane.  Saying that New Haven has a Democratic “machine” is an overstatement on par with saying that the green is just like central park.

Anyway, it would be nice if these Malloy supporters could do SOMETHING to show that they’re basing their support for Malloy on anything other than their demonstrated childish tendencies.

And by the way, does Jeff Kerekes know that three Stamford city employees were just charged with embezzling $400,000 during Malloy’s time as Mayor?  Shouldn’t that raise serious questions for this self-styled “budget watchdog”?  Again, we see that he cares about the budget every bit as much as the republicans in Congress care about the deficit—he cares about it only insofar as he can use it as a tool to attack his political opponents. 

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posted by: Mike Campa on July 27, 2010  9:48am

Hello Professor; You wrote:“since I tend to think that people harping on business successes as some indicator that they’ll do a good job as government executives is off-putting and intellectually questionable.”
You are absolutely correct about that.
Then changing your mind for reasons stated is wrong.

Dan Malloy is from a city that goes back and forth between Republican and Democratic administrations, unlike some towns and cities that really have only one party or the other.
You need to know how to deal with the folks who attack you day in and day out.  In Stamford, the Republicans have a no holds barred viciousness about them, much like Fox News. Lamont will find the same thing if he should ever win the primary (and I hope he does not).

Just reading the New Haven Independent shows Lamont stays out of the fray while his groupies shoot bullets at Malloy.
Just re-read some of the comments.

At least I admit that I believe in Malloy because of his excellent record of running a city only a couple of thousand people smaller than New Haven.  When he took over people were packing up and moving out. Now, it is not so.
For all those who say: why do you defend Malloy?  I say, just drive down I-95, especially at night and see how safe that city is, see the thousands of people enjoying themselves, see how clean the streets are and see how pre-school education is working in Stamford.
As someone put it: If we elect some who cannot run a government, the government will run him.  Then worst of all, we will have the Republicans back in four years from now.
Malloy can run the Connecticut Government. Lamont cannot.

posted by: Old Newhallville on July 27, 2010  10:05am

To CedarHill,  I’m for Malloy, but endorsements don’t mean a thing if you fail to get out the vote. Frankly both men have done a poor job of canvassing in the city. Especially in the black community. I must say Lamont has done even worse. Anyway they should spend less time attacking each others personal lives and explain to all how they are going get this state up and running again. At 70 plus yrs old I’m tired of the nasty politics. It provides no results whatsoever.

posted by: Willy D. Greene on July 28, 2010  10:15am

The turn out for the Governors will be very small in the Black community. I say this because each man has failed to clearly define his plan for revitalizing the state, cities and the impact of their policies will have on the Black Community and the City of New Haven as well.

However, be not fooled by the appearances of
Blacks in the campaign literature and TV Advertisement for they are just a snapshot of what some may feel in our community.

There is very little excitement about the race in the Black community for Governor. The outcome of change of past State-Wide elections has been so minimal if any that it has become increasingly difficult to get people out to vote.

Much like our White counterparts the Black community is angry, afraid, anxious, nervous, because there are no jobs , taxes are increasing but not the paychecks, social security, etc., to meet the ever-increasing cost of living. The very financial foundation of this state is clearly unstable.

As for White politicians using Blacks in their advertisements. Lets be honest it makes for great media print as well as a great photo op.
Furthermore, while certain blacks are prominently displayed in the advertisement far too many times they are described as angry and have fallen out of grace with the sitting administration.

Very rarely is it said by the media that they bring a very certain positive element to the campaign to help the candidate advance their agenda. Their depicted as just being angry, uninformed, and easily led. Its simply a dog and pony show and nothing more. I don’t blame White politicians. Blame those who allow themselves to be used.

I find it both embarrassing and painful that for most times my community is only embraced is at election time. The problems we face on a daily basis now become issues, the big hugs, the speeches at our places of worship and when the last ballot is counted and a winner has been declared the candidates are not seen until the next election. Yet our problems remain unchanged not just in the Black community but City wide.

However again the blame of being used should be properly placed. On the shoulders of those who are willing participants.

posted by: Threefifths on July 29, 2010  9:04am

posted by: Willy D. Greene on July 28, 2010 11:15am

However again the blame of being used should be properly placed. On the shoulders of those who are willing participants.

When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.
Carter G. Woodson

This is the problem.

posted by: Willy D. Greene on July 29, 2010  12:53pm

To Threefifths.

posted by: Threefifths on July 29, 2010 10:04am
posted by: Willy D. Greene on July 28, 2010 11:15am

However again the blame of being used should be properly placed. On the shoulders of those who are willing participants.

When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.
Carter G. Woodson

This is the problem.

Threefifths I have the greatest regard for Dr Carter’s work who after earning his PhD from Harvard not only taught in the public school system but eventually went on to teach at Harvard University. He left behind an impressive NO A Great Legacy.

However I totally disagree with you. That is not the problem. We are the problem. And when I say we are the problem. I clearly mean those who are willing participants who allow themselves to be used. We are the problem when we simply sit on the sidelines and play Monday morning quarterback and provide nothing more than criticism.

I have an enormous appreciation for the history/work of Dr. Carter and those alike. However often times I believe we misinterpret the true definition’s of their work and in doing so some find reasons for our not having moved progressively towards our goals and simply say because of past history its not our fault. 

We hear the same old tired excuses “We don’t control anything,” We don’t control our thinking” etc., is simply a poor reason to not stand up and move forward and be responsible for our actions and promoting the positive will and development of our community and our city.

Its an excuse so that we don’t have to look at ourselves for fear of coming to terms with ourselves perhaps/maybe we have miserably failed our community and our families in not setting a positive standard.

No one controls the thoughts of those who have allowed themselves to be nothing more than window dressing in the present campaign for Governor.

These are not stupid people. These folks deliberately thought out their position and made a conscious decision to voluntarily play their parts in the respective campaigns.

They played their parts without demanding any specific conditions for the overall community and in return have been given nothing more than a promise.

What Dr. Carver said is just as important now as it was years ago. However we control our thinking. Today many in our community have become selfish in their way of thinking and seeking perceived power or influence for themselves and nothing more. There is no longer the thought or planning of a city wide community agenda.

Nevertheless let us put this in perspective. When the Race For Governor in the Primary and the General Elections is over and a winner has been declared our stations in life will be the same.

Yet much work remains to be done in the Black community and the City of New Haven. That my friend should be our primary focus.

posted by: Willy D. Greene on July 29, 2010  2:04pm

I meant no disrespect in using Dr Woodson first name.

posted by: Threefifths on July 29, 2010  2:59pm

posted by: Willy D. Greene on July 29, 2010 1:53pm

However I totally disagree with you. That is not the problem. We are the problem. And when I say we are the problem. I clearly mean those who are willing participants who allow themselves to be used. We are the problem when we simply sit on the sidelines and play Monday morning quarterback and provide nothing more than criticism.

You are right the problem is us,But it is due to the mind set of the Stockholm Syndrome that most of our people have.When you capture the mind of a person,Than you have better control of that person.We still suffer from the Stockholm Syndrome,Because we was never debrief.

Blacks Display Stockholm Syndrome,

http://theblacksentinel.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/blacks-display-stockholm-syndrome/

posted by: Willy D. Greene on July 29, 2010  7:20pm

posted by: Willy D. Greene on July 29, 2010 3:04pm
posted by: Threefifths on July 29, 2010 3:59pm
posted by: Willy D. Greene on July 29, 2010 1:53pm

However I totally disagree with you. That is not the problem. We are the problem. And when I say we are the problem. I clearly mean those who are willing participants who allow themselves to be used. We are the problem when we simply sit on the sidelines and play Monday morning quarterback and provide nothing more than criticism.

You are right the problem is us,But it is due to the mind set of the Stockholm Syndrome that most of our people have.When you capture the mind of a person,Than you have better control of that person.We still suffer from the Stockholm Syndrome,Because we was never debrief.

Blacks Display Stockholm Syndrome,

ThreeFifths: The following are viewed as the conditions necessary for Stockholm syndrome to occur.
Hostages who develop Stockholm syndrome often view the perpetrator as giving life by simply not taking it. In this sense, the captor becomes the person in control of the captive’s basic needs for survival and the victim’s life itself.

[1] The hostage endures isolation from other people and has only the captor’s perspective available. Perpetrators routinely keep information about the outside world’s response to their actions from captives to keep them totally dependent.

[1] The hostage taker threatens to kill the victim and gives the perception of having the capability to do so. The captive judges it safer to align with the perpetrator, endure the hardship of captivity, and comply with the captor than to resist and face murder.

[1] The captive sees the perpetrator as showing some degree of kindness. Kindness serves as the cornerstone of Stockholm syndrome; the condition will not develop unless the captor exhibits it in some form toward the hostage. However, captives often misinterpret a lack of abuse as kindness and may develop feelings of appreciation for this perceived benevolence. If the captor is purely evil and abusive, the hostage will respond with hatred.

But, if perpetrators show some kindness, victims will submerge the anger they feel in response to the terror and concentrate on the captors’ “good side” to protect themselves.

In cases where Stockholm syndrome has occurred, the captive is in a situation where the captor has stripped nearly all forms of independence and gained control of the victim’s life, as well as basic needs for survival.

We are neither captive by our White counterparts nor are we isolated by them. The isolation, and any immediate danger of killing is carried out in very own community at the very hand of the adults and our children that live in our community. So I fail to see your point.

Furthermore, truth be told we are being held captive by our very own not by our White counterparts. Our elderly and the general population is afraid to come out of their homes and again not because of our White counterparts but because of our very own people.

Our children, our elderly, the parents can’t walk to the corner store or let their children out to play or walk to the parks.  Also let us revisit the shooting of the eleven year boy on the corners of Dixwell and Divison who escaped death yet not one of our people have come forth with information to find the shooter. And we both know that there are many in our community who knows the shooter. But yet refuse to step up and identify the person who shot that young man.

Please lets not use the excuse of not having enough police protection or having enough in our community that looks like us. It will not a make difference. We complain that the police are unresponsive or they are too aggressive. We all know what is going on and we simply stand by and say absolutely nothing. We simply can’t have it both ways. We either step up and protect ourselves from our own people or continue to suffer in silence and maintain the fear of our people.

And may I ask what debriefing do you speak of? Our ancestors came here against their will, the playing field while still not totally level I have seen measurable progress. The continued progress can only materialized when we accept our leadership roles and be willing to stand for what is right.

Should we blame all White people for the suffering our people endured at the hands of their ancestors? No.

But with all due respect I must have missed the debriefing on that issue. My friend the debriefing was implemented and taught on many levels in the teachings and struggles of Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, A Phillip Randolph and Dr. Carter Woodson and many more.

Even more important those lessons were reinforced in our very homes and community when the adults were actually running their homes, community and not their children.

If there is a debriefing that is needed it should entail to all in our community you don’t rob, steal, kill and destroy where you live. You don’t do any of that in anyone’s neighborhood. We should also teach them that we are a free thinking people and our ancestors died giving us that right.

We simply must stop and abandon all the excuses and move towards a positive agenda.

posted by: Threefifths on July 30, 2010  10:46am

posted by: Willy D. Greene on July 29, 2010 1:53pm

We are neither captive by our White counterparts nor are we isolated by them. The isolation, and any immediate danger of killing is carried out in very own community at the very hand of the adults and our children that live in our community. So I fail to see your point.

It is the mind my brother that is captive.Not the body.It is call Mind Control Slavery. As the late Edward Wilmot Blyden wrote in In 1872

He had observed that although the chains of physical slavery had been removed from the limbs of Africans, that the slave mentality nonetheless persisted. In fact he argued that it was the “slavery of the mind” which was the most invidious obstacle to the empowerment of people of African descent.

In fact even the The Germans under the Nazi government began to do serious scientific research into trauma-based mind.Did you know that Josef Mengele conducted mind-control research on thousands of twins and thousands of other hapless victims.”

Mengele, known as “the Angel of Death”, was one of the approximately 900 military scientists and medical researchers secretly exfiltrated into the United States, where he continued his ‘research’ and trained others in the black arts of mind control. This work in behaviour manipulation was later incorporated into the CIA’s projects Bluebird and Artichoke which, in 1953, became the notorious MKULTRA.

This still goes on today my brother.That is my point.

Furthermore, truth be told we are being held captive by our very own not by our White counterparts. Our elderly and the general population is afraid to come out of their homes and again not because of our White counterparts but because of our very own people.

Our children, our elderly, the parents can’t walk to the corner store or let their children out to play or walk to the parks.  Also let us revisit the shooting of the eleven year boy on the corners of Dixwell and Divison who escaped death yet not one of our people have come forth with information to find the shooter. And we both know that there are many in our community who knows the shooter. But yet refuse to step up and identify the person who shot that young man.

Again I go back to the Mind Controlled Slavery.
Also American as a whole is one of the most violent industrialized nation in the world. You talk about how people refuse to step up and identify the person who shot that young man.True they should,But How about the police across this country who knew about crooked officer’s and refuse to step up and identify them?

Please lets not use the excuse of not having enough police protection or having enough in our community that looks like us. It will not a make difference. We complain that the police are unresponsive or they are too aggressive. We all know what is going on and we simply stand by and say absolutely nothing. We simply can’t have it both ways. We either step up and protect ourselves from our own people or continue to suffer in silence and maintain the fear of our people.

As tax payers we should complain if the police are unresponsive or they are too aggressive.We should demand as other tax payers demand the right for police protection .Be careful when you talk about protect ourselves.

White Loses Appeal in Teen’s Shooting

http://www.longislandpress.com/2010/05/21/white-loses-appeal-in-teens-shooting/

And these were white youth that try to hurt this man.

And may I ask what debriefing do you speak of? Our ancestors came here against their will, the playing field while still not totally level I have seen measurable progress. The continued progress can only materialized when we accept our leadership roles and be willing to stand for what is right

And that measurable progress is now being Wiped Out.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25953.htm

You say we must accept our leadership roles.This is another problem.Due to te fact the our so call leaders are put in place for us.IE Gate keepers and The Black Boule. 

Should we blame all White people for the suffering our people endured at the hands of their ancestors? No.

No. But all white people are reaping the rewards rom the profits that they made from our ancestors.

But with all due respect I must have missed the debriefing on that issue. My friend the debriefing was implemented and taught on many levels in the teachings and struggles of Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, A Phillip Randolph and Dr. Carter Woodson and many more.

You have black people wen you talk to them about Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, A Phillip Randolph and Dr. Carter Woodson,They don’t want to here about these people.You have people who don’t even know who these people are.Case in point I ask some black minsters about Marcus Mosiah Garvey,Medgar Evers Fannie Lou Hamer and Paul Robeson and these black minster could not tell me who these people are.
And these minster are leading the people.

Even more important those lessons were reinforced in our very homes and community when the adults were actually running their homes, community and not their children

This problem is a break down in american as a whole not just in the our community.Lindsay Lohan,Look Paris Hilton.Even Dan Malloy has some problems.

Stamford Mayor Malloy’s son arrested | WTNH.com

http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/news_wtnh_stamford_mayor_son_arrest_200903042202_rev1

So don’t put this problem just on us.

If there is a debriefing that is needed it should entail to all in our community you don’t rob, steal, kill and destroy where you live. You don’t do any of that in anyone’s neighborhood. We should also teach them that we are a free thinking people and our ancestors died giving us that right.

What do you expect when the people see those in power rob, steal, kill and destroy where you live.Look at Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez,How about Ben andrews, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.People fell if these leaders can do it so can I.

We simply must stop and abandon all the excuses and move towards a positive agenda.

The problem is not excuses,The problem is how do you break the grip of mind control.

posted by: Richard Stowe on August 2, 2010  2:06pm

In his second attempt to win the Democratic primary for Governor, Dan Malloy promises to bring green jobs to Connecticut.

But as Mayor, Dan favored development over the environment.

In 1996 shortly after Dan became Mayor, the Environmental Council of Stamford twice cleaned up a neglected downtown city-owned property and proposed a green restoration of the property’s 100-year old structure - Stamford’s first public high school and Burdick Junior High. 

Dan had other plans; he sought proposals and bids from private developers to buy the three-acre property and public street.  Despite public support to preserve open space downtown and restore the neoclassical school building; despite Stamford’s Board of Reps Legislative & Rules Committee advisory vote against sale of the public property; Dan prevailed in his desire to demolish the historic school building in favor of a 14-story apartment building.  The city sold the property for between $5 and 6 million once assessed at $14 million.

In 1999 Dan was a chief proponent of Stamford Golf Center’s LLC plans to cut down 170 mature native trees for a golf range at Rosa Hartman Park.  Greenwich sued over wetlands and watercourse construction impacts to adjacent Laddins Rock Sanctuary.  Blumenthal intervened: park dedication restricted use for passive purposes.

Dan’s record demonstrates that he favors private interests over environmental protection.