Dan Malloy Is Guest Speaker At August 20th Meeting

Dan Malloy, Stamford’s Mayor and a 2010 gubernatorial hopeful, will be the guest speaker at the August meeting of the NB Democratic Town Committee Thursday, August 20th at 7 p.m. at New Britain City Hall, 27 West Main Street.

Malloy, who has served as Stamford’s mayor since 1995, is serving a fourth term and is expected to seek the Democratic nomination for Governor next year. A Boston College and Boston College law school graduate, Malloy served as an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, NY in the early 1980s before returning to his native Stamford to practice law and pursue local politics. He contended for the gubernatorial nomination in 2006.

This summer he has been critical of the Rell Administration on the stymied state budget negotiations and on Governor Rell’s veto of the Sustinet health care reform legislation that was overridden by the state legislature. More information at www.danmalloy.com

From the Chair: NB Republicans start early on personal attacks, negative campaigning

It usually takes until Labor Day for some candidates to resort to negative campaigning. But New Britain Republicans aren’t waiting until then to engage in name calling and invective as a substitute for discussing the issues.

Don Naples, a Ward 4 candidate for the GOP, signed off on a letter to the editor earlier this week that takes off on Ward 4 Ald, Phil Sherwood for inquiring about the plans for prospective developers to build retail at the Pinnacle Heights site. Naples falsely chastises Sherwood for “taunting” the proposed developers as he engaged in a dialogue with the developer’s attorney. The developers, by the way, were seeking full developer designation after admitting that “due diligence” on their part needs to be done on the site before offering any specifics. For doing his due diligence in a respectful manner, Sherwood was called “jerky” by Naples. And in a new blog that is anonymous but has all the trappings of the Republican Town Committee and Mayor Stewart’s inner circle Sherwood is referred to as “filthy Phil Sherwood.” Check it out at http://thebizybee.blogspot.com/

And in one of his many attack missives GOP Ald. Lou Salvio rants on about “some Democrat Council agitators” using “neighborhood rabble-rousers”, “mercenaries” and “Democratic shills to promote doubt.” Salvio’s letter was posted on the Frank Smith Says NB blog, another conduit for personal attacks on local Democrats generally and vitriolic, extremist reports against President Obama specifically. There was nary a word about any substantive issue in this latest salvo from Salvio.

Salvio, who has made a habit of name calling and insults in e-mails to his Democratic Council colleagues and in letters to the editor through the years, complains bitterly that the “voters elected the evildoers with a super majority on the council.”

These remarks are disappointing, counterproductive and disrespectful to voters. Every election is an opportunity to have a conversation with voters and to engage them in constructive dialogue. Democrats believe this. Unfortunately members of the Stewart team appear to want to trade insults and tear down the good faith efforts of public servants rather than promote their own qualifications, ideas and solutions.


Black Dems Set For Soul Food Fast, Saturday, August 15th

The Black Democratic Club and its President, Ward 3 Ald. Shirley Black , invites you to its annual Soul Food Fest Saturday, August 15th. The annual event will be held from 12-4 p.m. Pride of CT, Lodge of Elks 24 Elm Street, New Britain. The donation $15. Bring your appetite.

End Quote

The Republicans, hoping to steal the message as they have so often before, have invited in the brass-knucklers of the wacko-fringe: the racists, the haters, the misanthropes, the nest of the bombers and shooters, the lunatics. They’ve done this before and think it’s high theater. Except this time there’s no moderating forces left at all in the GOP hierarchy to hit the “off” switch. The party has been reduced down to the coffee grounds. It is the base distilled to the base of the base. A few southerners, a few wild westerners, the usual opportunists. …..The demagogues of the airwaves, who alone define and control the Republican party once of Lincoln and Roosevelt and Eisenhower — racist to the core — whip the mob to its mad frenzy.

from Angry? How about nuts? Author and blogger Denis Horgan August 5, 2009-08-13