Hamden mayoral candidate Walter Morton saw lessons in this year’s controversial budget-approval process: A need for longer-term strategic planning in advance. The need to have a finance director in place. The need not to rely on one-time revenues to plug holes. The need for the mayor’s office and Legislative Council to communicate well.
He also argues that the Democratic Party in general needs to do better to appeal to working-class voters as well as younger people. “There’s a war for the heart of the party,” he says.
Morton is one of six Democrats seeking to run in a mayoral primary. He offered those reflections among other views in an interview Wednesday with host Justin Farmer on WNHH FM’s “Just-In Time Conversations” program. Click on the above video to watch the full conversation.
Farmer has been interviewing Hamden’s mayoral candidates on the show. Click on the below videos to watch some of the other conversations. Click here to read an article about the Hamden Democratic Town Committee’s endorsement convention.
Click above for the conversation with Democratic Town Committee-endorsed mayoral candidate Dominque Baez and below to watch conversations with Jameka Jeffries and Peter Cyr.
Above, Farmer speaks with Mayor Lauren Garrett before she dropped out of the race.