UPDATE: Passes State House. Neighborhood activists with www.onebridgeport.com who successfully lobbied for legislation last year to regulate massage parlors and adult entertainment establishments have turned their attention to pass House Bill 6683 – Nuisance Abatement that “will provide law enforcement greater strength in shutting down illegal businesses, involved in a variety of criminal activities, including but not limited [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Auden Grogins'
Legislation To Shut Down Illegal Businesses Approved In State House
May 15th, 2013 · 9 Comments · News and Events
Tags: Auden Grogins·CT Post
Hennessy Tries To Save Government Reform Bill, Announces New Support With Grandfather Clause
May 15th, 2013 · 8 Comments · News and Events
State Rep. Jack Hennessy announced on Tuesday that two Bridgeport colleagues in the State House, Don Clemons and Charlie Stallworth, will support his legislation barring city employees from serving on the City Council–prohibited by the City Charter but allowed by a loophole in state law–with a grandfather stipulation. Hennessy says state legal counsel has advised [...]
Tags: Auden Grogins·Brendan Sharkey·Charlie Stallworth·Don Clemons·Jack Hennessy
Walsh Tells Musto To Grow A Spine On City Council Reform Bill, ‘Will You Roll Over And Play Dead Or Find Courage?’
May 3rd, 2013 · 30 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Council, City Politics, News and Events, State Politics
Former City Councilman Bob “Troll” Walsh writes he will actively campaign against State Senator Anthony Musto if Musto does not support the state legislative bill that would bar city employees from serving on the City Council. Many of Musto’s Bridgeport constituents, such as Walsh, are urging Musto to find some backbone instead of caving in [...]
Tags: Anthony Musto·Auden Grogins·Bob "Troll" Walsh·CT Post·Jack Hennessy·Joe Ganim
Wimpy Factor–CT Post Fillets City Legislators For Ducking Reform Bill
April 27th, 2013 · 8 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Council, News and Events
Profiles in courage go to Bridgeport State House members Jack Hennessy and Auden Grogins for trying to bring some reform to the City Council whose city employee members approve their own wages and benefits. It’s illegal for federal employees to serve in Congress. It’s illegal for state employees to serve in the state legislature. The [...]
Tags: Andres Ayala·Anthony Musto·Auden Grogins·Charlie Stallworth·Christina Ayala·CT Post·Don Clemons·Eze Santiago·Jack Hennessy
Why Is Anthony Musto Afraid Of Supporting A Good Government Bill That Prohibits City Employees From Serving On The City Council?
April 26th, 2013 · 25 Comments · Analysis and Comment
Democratic State Senator Anthony Musto is hearing it from constituents, in emails, phone calls, letters, letters to the editor, from readers of OIB and Connecticut Post. They want him to support a state legislative bill co-sponsored by Bridgeport State House members Jack Hennessy and Auden Grogins that would ban city employees from serving on the [...]
Tags: Andres Ayala·Anthony Musto·Auden Grogins·Charlie Stallworth·Christina Ayala·CT Post·Don Clemons·Eze Santiago·Jack Hennessy·Jim Holloway·John McKinney·Mario Testa·Rich Paoletto·Tom McCarthy·Warren Blunt
Hennessy: Good Government Bill “Dead” Without More Local Support–State Legislative Wimps Duck Reform–Grogins Still Hopeful For Passage
April 21st, 2013 · 19 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Council, City Politics, State Politics
Update, Includes Petition: State Rep. Jack Hennessy’s legislative bill that would bar city employees from serving on the City Council doesn’t have a pulse without additional support from members of the city’s legislative delegation. “It’s dead. Without Bpt delegation support, the bill is dead,” declared Hennessy’s message in an email to OIB Saturday morning. But [...]
Tags: Andres Ayala·Anthony Musto·Auden Grogins·Charlie Stallworth·Christina Ayala·Don Clemons·Eze Santiago·Jack Hennessy·Jim Holloway·John McKinney·Rich Paoletto·Tom McCarthy·Warren Blunt
Is Musto Spineless? Reform-minded Constituents Wonder About His Backbone In Pursuit Of Judgeship
May 21st, 2013 · 14 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, State Politics
Is State Senator Anthony Musto afraid? Does he have a backbone? Is he a puppet of Bridgeport’s political profiteers? OIB has received numerous copies of letters from constituents of Musto urging him to support the government reform bill sponsored by his Democratic peers in the State House Jack Hennessy and Auden Grogins that would prohibit [...]
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Tags: Anthony Musto·Auden Grogins·Brendan Sharkey·Jack Hennessy