CT 05: Justin Bernier fundraising is not impressive
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 Time: 6:20 PM
With candidates filing their 2nd quarter campaign finance reports, lets just say that the person challenging Chris Murphy has quite a bit of work to do.
Republican Justin Bernier's 2nd quarter finance report shows that he's only raised 62,400 dollars for the second quarter while spending 24,400 dollars. Compared to David Cappiello, (who at this time in 2007, managed to raise 198,000 while spending 15,400), Bernier's numbers are horrible to say the least.
On another topic, said that he and his wife, Pam, a schoolteacher, have paid a significant portion of back taxes to the IRS.
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He said that he is confident that all of the taxes will be paid and that he has spoken with people with expertise in the field regarding further negotiations on the extent of his federal income tax liability in this area.
"If I wasn't a public official, we probably wouldn't be having this discussion," Mr. Scribner said during a phone interview. "The documents related to this have been in the town clerk's office for three years. Apparently someone started looking for this information now and made it available to the press."
Coming from a person who well known for his partisan cheap shots, I can only laugh at this comment. For a person who brags about being in the banking industry for over 20 year, Scribner's remark is outrageous to say the least.
Lets forget the fact that in the article, State Rep. Scribner doesn't explain how he, as TREASURER for the town of Brookfield, failed to pay his PROPERTY TAXES to the town to Brookfield!
NEWFLASH DAVID, your being criticized because YOU'RE A PUBLIC OFFICIAL who make decisions on how to spend TAXPAYER DOLLARS...and YOU'RE NOT PAYING YOUR FAIR SHARE!
In case you haven't noticed, the number of posts on this site has dropped a bit this week. That's because I'm doing some long-overdue updates to this site.
In short, I feel that it's rather hard searching for information on this site and seeing that HatCityBLOG is approaching it's 4th anniversary, I decided to give this site a make-over.
One of the questions posed to my during my interview on the local access show "Progressive Soup" had to do with the reliability of blogs.
Specifically, I was asked how do question the reliability of blog writers, to which my response was that you should always question the source of the material from ALL media outlets. For instance, although this is a site that takes a look at Danbury politics from a progressive point of view, I always try my best when it comes to providing as much information as possible so the reader can form their own opinion.
Taking that into consideration, I used the content that comes from FAUXNews, a extreme right-winged news network, as an example of a media outlet that thrives on providing misleading information and DISTORTS reality in order to justify their slanted opinion.
From Media Matters, here's a clip from FAUXNews that backs up my statement.
Oh, the municipal election "inside baseball" rumors are already flooding my email inbox...
Various sources are reporting that 1st ward Republican Common Councilwoman Louise McMahon will not seek re-election. Although I don't have a confirmation on this as of yet (thus, the reason why there's a question mark in the title of this post), McMahon stepping down wouldn't be a huge surprise.
"People over Politics" or "Special interest over the People"
Time: 4:07 PM
In response to a post I wrote yesterday regarding Mayor Boughton's half-hearted response to the firing of over 60 employees at the Danbury Corporate Center by the Matrix Corporation (a.k.a. the SAME corporation that's sponsoring the 2009 Mayor's Cup, I received this release from Democratic mayoral candidate Gary Goncalves.
"I regard this scenario as disheartening and I feel for the employees that lost their jobs. While the Mayor may be a nice guy, this is another example that he has abandoned his original campaign theme of "People Over Politics" in favor of special interests. Given this harsh economic time, our municipal leaders should be very concerned about not only attracting new quality jobs to Danbury but also retaining jobs already in place. In my mind, a Mayor needs to be the "champion" to lead the fight for his constituents."