Five Alder Candidates Raise $21K+

We need Republicans in some of these spots. Way too many democrats, no balance. This doesn't reflect democracy. They act like they have new ideas but it is the same ole stuff.

Elmlife-- I have been thinking the same thing. 2 candidates branded by Yale is no real choice.

Just for a more lively effort to fix things, we need more parties and more candidates. Local Repubs are not like national Repubs and they have been tarred as extremists unfairly to dupe voters.
Of course, Mayce Torres is being effectively shut out by the media thus far. WHY?

I always find the listing of summary amounts interesting, due to campaign donation limits a total donation of 1,155$ could mean Alder Darryl Brackeen has only 5 supporters who donated large amounts ( though I am sure it's a larger amount of small donations).

Personally....It's an Alder race, what do I need to be spending thousands of dollars on? What I've asked of people who want to support my run for Alder in ward 26 is spending the time talking to their friends and neighbors about this years race.

Can someone please explain to me why Eli Sabin and Sarah Miller need to raise so much money for uncontested races? And what do they plan to do with any unspent donations?

It is a sad state of affairs in New Haven that we have no real political candidate choices outside of the Democratic party primary.
Sadder still is the fact that most candidates are running unopposed!
We have no real competitive democracy in New Haven. That has been the fact of political life in New Haven for over 60 years! The Republican party is dead here, without any pending chance of resurrection!
This does not mean we do not have any fine, capable, accomplished, dedicated political servants in our midst, but how far better the quality of candidates we would have if each candidate had to really compete for the positions for which they are running.
Another point: lack of true competitiveness in political races produces lower voter turnouts, which undermines democracy.
Competition is always good for consumers and citizens. It makes for better products and service from business and government. Monopolies, an absence of competition, tend to breed slothfulness, inattentiveness, poor quality.
Many residents never hear from some of their alders when they run unopposed. What do they usually have to lose?
We deserve true competitive democracy in this city.
It's hard to understand all the fundraising when so many of these candidates are running unopposed.
One caveat to such candidates: they can never claim a MANDATE from the people when they run unopposed!

Elmlife,

Republicans are running a national campaign to effectively disenfranchise millions of voters. They supported an insurrection.

BevHills - You really should read more and read with an open mind to facts not spin. Requiring an ID to vote in person, to require an ID to vote by mail is not disenfranchisement. You have to have ID to get welfare benefits, to open a bank account, to access a federal building or fly on a plane. In fact, for instance, the voting laws in Georgia - yeah those that democrats paint as "Jim Crow" laws - set rules and limits and access to polls and early voting that exceed what is available to voters in NYC, NY and DE and ironically, CO where the All/Star game was played in Denver after MLB's knee jerk woke action. That cost black businesses, employees millions of dollars. .

@mmrmike1 and @Thomas Alfred Paine the dollars we raised are mostly for outreach and informational materials and postage. This is especially important in our ward, given that our alder has been absent. We developed a budget for the materials we think are needed and raised exactly that amount.

@Sarah.Miller why spend $4000 on a campaign for a seat that you will win by casting your vote for yourself? I think that money would help the 14th Ward by donating the money to a community soup kitchen or food bank in the 14th.

The be fair to Sarah Miller, she had a primary opponent until recently. Why Sabin raised money is a real question. Roth says she asked some good people to run, but none of them wanted to post, leaving it wide open for Sabin.

Well, at least 1 more REPUBLICAN Alder Candidates has announced. John Carlson (me) in Ward 6 and I expect some others. As I already stated in a previous interview with Paul Bass, nothing is off the table at this point and we may even cross endorse someone.

I wonder where weunisdad is ?!?! I mean, it was just 2 weeks ago he was singing the praises of communist Cuba on this very site.

• YEAH, why did Sabin raise SO much money and what will he do with it?
  
  
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