Councilman DeFilippo Barks Back Following Removal As Budget Committee Leader

ON TYRANNY is a relatively short book written by Tim Snyder and published in 2017. It presents 20 lessons that Snyder recommends us to study and learn from the 20th Century. While he did not direct his words to citizens of Bridgeport, CT we might well look to his cautions and meaning for guidance while subjected to the local DTC tyranny from studying four of his 20 lessons.
#3 BEWARE THE ONE PARTY STATE…..and that is what governs our City because of control of information and data kept from the citizen, taxpayer and voter. Were we to find 50% of those eligible coming out to vote in an off year municipal election (2021 CC or 2023 Mayor and CC) the dissatisfaction can be met with a group of “public service” candidates for offices at all levels of democrats with a dream rather than the “governmentally ill-educated, selfish and relatively lethargic” folks we elect today. They take orders from an authoritarian teacher who enjoys popularity and pursuit of his good rather than laying out a plan that will float many more boats and dreams.
#2 DEFEND INSTITUTIONS Snyder speaks about “a court, a newspaper, a law, a labor union” and I hope you have such in mind because each needs defending in difficult times unless it has already been co-opted or silenced. However, I am talking about the City boards and commissions where citizens have a Charter authorized role in self-governance (though that is often prevented because of the poor care of appointments, training and term reviews before a term expiry. We even have entire groups like Fair Housing and Fair Rent that no Mayor has noticed or commented upon? Where are live issues discussed Ethics? WPCA? Zoning and other Land Use bodies? And City Council sub-committee chairs disallow members of the public because though they have the time to listen, they do not wish a possibly knowledgeable member of the public to speak?
#11 INVESTIGATE There are a handful of elected -people who take this subject seriously for the benefit of the public. Perhaps that is why the Federal microscope stays on our City? Snyder advises “figure things out for yourself” That would mean digging deeper “with long articles” rather than passing along someone else’s narrative. Or “Subsidize investigative journalism by subscribing to print media.” “Take responsibility for what you communicate to others.” And this goes for what you say to reporters, on Faxebook or other social media, and the half-truths spun before running for office. What role do you have in municipal OVERSIGHT?
#BELIEVE IN TRUTH “To abandon facts is to abandon freedom.” (Page 65-71) The final words read: “Post-truth is pre-fascism.”
After asking CIty voters for a second chance as Mayor, Ganim2 has done nothing special to distinguish himself as a different kind of leader, someone who learned a lesson or two, and was content to work for “his City”. Rather he rather rapidly linked his Ganim1 benefits to his Ganim2 years of office, ignoring the time he served behind bars. What was the expense to taxpayers for his fancy “compensation embroidery”? And he ran for a time pretty much 24/7 trying to get the CT gold ring. Who has Ganim2 been really serving on this pass? TIME WILL TELL.