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"IT'S TIME TO STOP FIDDLE PLAYING , HARTFORD IS ON FIRE"

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Anonymous peter brush said...

Coucilman Cotto is, I believe, a sincere lefty; one in a long line in the Hartford municipal government. He has no regard for the limits of government at any level, but only for "social justice" or some such tripe. Do we still have a relationship with the town in Nicaragua the council befriended in the eighties because it didn't like Reagan? Do we still have an ordinance that decries the evils of apartheid? How about we boycott Puerto Rico because it allows discrimination against sexually disoriented and "transgendered?"

May 8, 2010 at 8:24 AM

Anonymous Jeff said...

Just another fine example of a self serving Hartford politician. Let's waste time on an issue that matters to me while Hartford falls apart.

I'm sure if Arizona Governor Brewer got wind of Hartford's desire to boycott, her first thought would be... "Isn't that the capitol city with the Mayor on trial for corruption?"

Hartford should be keeping it's head low out of embarrassment and focusing on its own issues, not poking at other cities and states who already laugh at us and our Mayor.

May 8, 2010 at 9:56 AM

Anonymous peter brush said...

Well put, Jeff.
The situation here is really a disgrace and a joke. Unfortunately, the joke's on us. These clowns downtown want to spend $550 million this year and raise out taxes 10%. Cotto thinks of himself as on a student council government. The money just sort of arrives, and it is the council's job to distribute the dough to various student clubs (interest groups) and to make the occasional pious progressive public performance. And, while ostentatious liberal hymns emanate from 550 Main, the indicted mayor sits atop a crumby corrupt bloated bureaucracy. The best we can hope for is a new Mike Peters to replace the current crop of mad hatters. Or, might we hope for a state takeover with the imposition, as in Waterbury, of an oversight board?

May 8, 2010 at 10:35 AM

Anonymous Hugo Chavez said...

Cotto is a self serving person who,while owning no home or car in Hartford,is glad to tax us who do.Mr Cotto does have more filly working for the City or City funded non profit then any other Council member though.Of course Cotto is very close to Mayor Perez and as Jeff and Mr Brush did say his " left wing" stuff" is really just an illusion in which rhe resolutions are meaningless.His real concern for for his "non left wing agenda" of getting jobs,contracts and raises for his family and friends.

May 8, 2010 at 11:13 AM

Anonymous Juan Machatero said...

Cotto is a master politician who wont vote for a thing unless it will help him,his family or friends.His resolution is worthless and without force and effect.I have heard that Cotto doesnt own a home or a car but yet has voted for every one of Mayor Perez's tax increases the last 6 years.

May 8, 2010 at 11:19 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Cotto has been in office for only two budgets. I don't know how he voted on the 08-09 budget, but he was one of four who voted against the 09-10 budget (Segarra, Cotto, Deutsch & Kennedy)

I'll be critical, but let's not resort to ad hominem attacks just because we disagree.

May 8, 2010 at 1:09 PM

Anonymous Ken Krayeske said...

I cannot agree with Kevin's premise that the ordinance against the war was overstretching by the Council in 2003.

More than 100 people filled Council Chambers that day. Mayor Perez strongarmed his Dems into not accepting it.

Bob Painter embraced Kevin's theory that Council had no place in international affairs. Many years later, with the war still raging, Council passed the resolution.

I, for one, think it would have had much more meaning in 2003.

Look at the March check register. $7 million to the IRS. $.51 of every dollar goes to military spending. That does not count the borrowing we are doing to pay for the war.

For you small government fiscal conservatives, please tell me how borrowing that much money is either fiscally conservative or helps reign in government spending.

The wars abroad have a direct impact on the City, and it was wise of Elizabeth Horton-Sheff to introduce that bill years ago.

May 9, 2010 at 8:05 AM

Anonymous Bruce Rubenstein said...

Over the many years of my activism the Council has passed many worthy resolutions that had no legal effect,so one more won't matter.This one by Luis is something I agree with ( the substance) and that is why I sent out the the US Justice Department an opinion on the 2 issues before them pertaining to the Arizona "papers please" law...they are the issue of federal "pre-emption and the issue of the seeming violation of civil rights and civil liberties of all those seemingly under "reasonable suspicion" under this draconian law.I think the state statute can be successfully challenged under the 4th,5th and 14th amendments.

May 9, 2010 at 2:58 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

While I do see your point, Kevin, I have to file this under a "it can happen here" label. Part of the issue with the AZ law is that if it stands, other states may pass similar laws and the next thing we know we have turned the country into a police state. Any opposition, even symbolic opposition, to a bad law matters. Plus, you know as well as I do this Council is not inclined to do anything about the problems you mentioned anyway. They are in a holding pattern until they find out what happens to Perez.

May 11, 2010 at 1:40 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Perhaps I need a refresher in fifth grade civics. Does a municipal gov't in one state have the right to oversee the actions of a state gov't in another state? For crying outloud, concentrate on your work and solving your gov't problems instead of wasting your time and the local tax payer's money on drafting feel good/no impact resolutions. I think Mr. Brush's second comment hit the nail on the head. Didn't I see Cotto on TV last week trying to spend the tax payers' money on developing a NEW skateboard park downtown when Hartford's existing parks are in disrepair???

May 11, 2010 at 10:11 PM

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