Editorial from the Connecticut Post:
It’s long overdue that some action is taken to stop people on the municipal payroll in Bridgeport from voting on the city budget.
It’s also reasonable that city employees voting on a budget are mindful of the fact that they could be one inopportune cut away from an unemployment line.
More importantly, in Bridgeport, the patronage-fueled interlocking directorate of the Democratic Town Committee, the City Council and the municipal payroll has long been a force more invested in the status quo than in sweeping change.
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The conflicts of interest for Council members are nothing new. The failure of the Mayor to follow the Charter with 12 timely financial monthly reports is nothing new. The loss of the Internal Audit function in the City as part of internal controls is almost five years old, nothing new. And a decrease in City Fund balance annually is also not new. And the failure to know whether the June 31, 2012 budget closed with a genuine surplus or deficit has not been addressed by the CT Post, or the Mayor, or any portion of the City Council. And who has seen the Management Letters from Blum Shapiro to the City and the City responses for the past five years? Do you think the CT Post has seen them? But they endorsed the Mayor for election. And now … time will tell.