Comments on: Political Sinners And Saints, Plus: Bring Home The Beacon

By: Big Pussy

Big Pussy — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:15:42 +0000

Wingnut, I feel your pain. I am in the same predicament. The “process” is that Public Facilities makes an annual list of what streets will be paved based upon traffic use, etc. Then we peons get the opportunity to solicit our Council members to request our abused streets paved. I’ve been trying for 5 years to get a street paved to no avail. The bitch of it is that it had been repaved 6-7 years ago, but utility work and poor remediation of the dug-up street has left the street in sad shape.

By: Mojo

Mojo — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:49:21 +0000

*** 7-car response is usually the norm in order to quell any attempts of further crowd involvement. It’s meant to send a message of police control, even though it may leave other parts of the city unprotected @ the time? I don’t believe the call or response was sent merely to “set up” Gomes by the admin. as some people think. “Time will tell” both sides of the story! ***

By: Joel Gonzalez

Joel Gonzalez — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:41:44 +0000

What ever happened to the video from the Cape Verdean Club that John Gomes mentioned? I dare him to release it!

By: Joel Gonzalez

Joel Gonzalez — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:32:31 +0000

What an ignorant kitty you are! Himes had ZERO input in the health bill. Currently, all Americans–White, Black, Hispanic, Poor or Middle Class–who have and pay for their own health coverage, are charged an average of $1,100 more by insurance companies in order to cover those who have no health coverage.

The Obama health plan is allegedly intended to cover those who don’t have health coverage. One would think that since the Obama health plan is going to cover those who have no health insurance, the Obama plan will mandate that insurance companies stop charging those that have health insurance the extra $1,100, because the Obama health bill will cover the uninsured.

Why in hell should those of us who have health insurance keep paying the extra $1,100 if everyone has health coverage? Call Himes and ask him this question. He has to come back to the district sooner or later and answer this question in public.

By: countdown

countdown — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:20:24 +0000

I totally agree with CHS.
MariAn Gail Brown needs to find out exactly what John Gomes and Carolanne Curry found and shine the light of day. To state that Bridgeport is too politically connected to really improve outcomes is too defeatist for my gene pool. Shine a light on what they learned. Then ask the administration what they are doing about the recommendations. My fear is that they struck too close to the nerve and the seven police cars response was the retaliation. Send in the sunshine MariAn. We need you to focus on the serious issues, the ones that could actually improve city services.

By: Mojo

Mojo — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:06:55 +0000

*** CitiStat’s overall main objective “on paper” sounds like a good money-saving idea in general, however it could never work in Bpt’s city gov. Why? Far too many politically connected employees, such as friends, relatives, paybacks, etc. Just look @ the CityStat employees for a good example to start! So basically, it’s a dept. that will end up saving chump change when reviewed @ budget time & end up doing whatever assigned work is tasked by the Mayor’s office, not what its main function should be. ***

By: Mojo

Mojo — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:49:12 +0000

*** Good job West Side N.R.Z. in keeping the pressure on the Mayor’s Admin. & working with the city’s Angie Staltaro & Tom Coble to get the city historical upkeep grants for this project as well as more public trash cans in certain areas of the West Side. It’s nice to see good things happen in neighborhoods where there’s some type of community involvement working together. Overall most of the community N.R.Z.’s since their start have been really working hard to make good community ideas come to life, let’s hope it continues. ***