Get a load of this from Republican John Brunner, who’s challenging U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill in Missouri. This Brunner spot whacks McCaskill for supporting an earmark to improve Pleasure Beach. That’s the best they can do? Hey, how about adding millions more for the Pleasure Beach earmark? Yeah, baby! In fact, if Brunner is so concerned about leveraging taxpayer dollars to clean up what was one of the finest amusement parks in the country in a needy urban area, he can use his own money from his manufacturing company to revitalize the peninsula. Show us the money from the Show Me State!
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Well, it’s nice someone is paying attention to us!
www .youtube.com/watch?v=Qna1JHIsyVM
Hey Jon, remember Family Guy? They paid attention.
P.S. Yes, I’m THAT Sue.
Mr. Brunner, the only thing you can find is a piddly $1,000,000 earmark to rework a beach area that is home to many endangered species. The only complaint involves a large urban area with a lot of people in need.
I ask this conservative lying asshole would he be saying the same thing if this money was going to a Republican town like Greenwich? I think not.
Let me see if I’ve got this right …
The same Washington DC that is pushing back against Pleasure Beach is going to approve $250 million plus for an unnecessary 2nd train station in Bridgeport???
Get real, folks.
I can’t wait to see the Bummer, er, I mean Brunner ad on that one.
Law firm celebrates 75 years in Bridgeport
December 13, 2011 at 8:54 am by Daniel Tepfer
Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch declares Tuesday “Koskoff, Koskoff and Bieder” day in honor of the law firm’s 75th year in the city.
I thought the Mayor declared Koskoff, Koskoff and Bieder Day the day his blue-panel commission said his administration was not at fault over the absentee ballot fiasco.
Pleasure Beach is owned by piping plovers now. You’re going to have to fight all the environmentalists from Westport to take it back. And if Bridgeport goes into the 3rd CD, New Haven libs will be happy to come over and educate you as well.
Step back: Pleasure Beach. Water taxis. Conservatives from SOMEPLACE ELSE were bound to have a field day. You guys have been ragging on the idea yourselves.
Pontoon bridge–swing in, swing out on a tether.
Jimmy, you forgot to mention the Water Taxis will be available to move passengers from our Inner Modal Transportation Center we have scrapped already for the Sal DiNardo Memorial East Side Barnum Train Station on / or to move visitors from the same Inner Modal Transportation Center (as previously mentioned now scrapped) to the shopping experience of their lives when they visit the Bill Finch / John Fabrizi / Joe Ganim Stale Point WalMart.
Whether Bridgeport is in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th Congressional District it is a miracle we get any f’n federal funding with such comprehensive, etched in soot from the UI plant.
OIB
“Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that the Department of Social Services and the Office of Labor Relations has … an additional nine employees who are suspected of filing false and misleading applications under the D-SNAP program … In addition, the 15 employees whose names were submitted to agencies last week have been given letters notifying them of the date for their individual administrative hearings.
“We have a zero tolerance policy for the misuse or abuse of government programs in this administration,” Governor Malloy said.
Come on, Danny Boy. If you have zero tolerance then name the names. The is more Hartford BS. We have referred the names to the appropriate Department Heads for them to research and see what the contract with the bargaining unit that represents the individual says. BS.
Here is the appropriate Department Head to refer it to if you have Zero Tolerance; the State Attorney’s Office. Prosecute and quit playing games.
*** Time to sell it to the feds, maybe they can do something with it besides a last-minute political hype fishing pier, no? *** WILDLIFE FEDERATION ***
The Pleasure Beach bridge was originally closed because a fire heavily damaged the wooden roadway. It was not closed because the mechanicals that opened and closed the bridge were damaged.
The city at that time wanted to close off Pleasure Beach because it was costing a ton of money to maintain it, the bridge fire was the perfect excuse.
Nobody even to this day has checked to see how badly damaged the mechanicals are. I know after not operating for all these years they are probably pretty well shot. The big question is what would the cost be to repair the mechanicals and repair the wood decking? I bet it would be less than that damn water taxi is going to cost to run and maintain.
Off topic: BEACON2 and I attended the B & A hearing last night. The entire B & A committee was in attendance. There was a request for bonding from the WPCA. The interesting thing was the concern by the council people for the bonded money if the system is regionalized.
This makes me wonder if the regionalization talks are further along than anyone of us knows. Interesting because all the council people had questions.
Dropping like a rock on Dailykos.com:
www .dailykos.com/story/2011/12/13/1045010/-Missouri-Repub-using-my-CT-city-in-attack-ad-against-McCaskill
Oh, the good old days of guaranteed rec’d CFL diaries.
tc and I did attend the meeting for one hour only during which only one agenda item was covered. The documents for review by B & A were difficult to understand as clarification for each of them was called for before the City Council meeting next. Of course the B & A would only have to get serious and ask for them “in advance” of a meeting like land use bodies, so that material could be reviewed by B & A BEFORE A MEETING. SAVES TIME. HELPS ALL PARTIES SEEM INTELLIGENT AND KNOWLEDGEABLE. For instance, our reps were concerned with the potential effect of added WPCA bonding and payments on resident user fees. WPCA reps were not prepared for that question. So who is out of touch with the end user, us as taxpayers because we own property and must pay for water coming in and water going out!!! Time will tell whether B & A can set a different and serious tone.
By the way, the monthly budget did not show up on the agenda, so I’ll have to see whether Sue Brannelly’s push to get the budget review as a standing item indicates a change and some ongoing check and balance. But you can’t load the budget with phantom jobs and phantom accounts that were never meant to be spent on the subject items budgeted at approval time, and then expect to see the budget plan executed as presented and voted upon. More on this subject soon. Time will tell.
Grin, I apologize. I forgot all about the Inter-Modal Trans-Galaxy Wayback Machine Combustion Scrubber and Sanitizer.
… And cranberry bog.
Let’s see if we can get this right:
“The Inter-Modal Trans-Galaxy Combustion Scrubber and Sanitizer Wayback Machine and Cranberry Bog.”
Let’s see if the Economic Development Office can top that!