Joe Ganim’s latest mailers are district-specific, grouping neighborhoods by common issues such as higher tax areas in Black Rock, North End and West Side, as well as highlighting public safety in higher crime areas such as the East Side, Hollow and South End.
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Interesting. Different positions for different neighborhoods.
Torres also has different positions for different neighborhoods. He and Ganim know the neighborhoods. And Foster?
Down at the bottom there’s a note, “20 bucks every time you vote!”
Notice he doesn’t mention taxes in the lower East Side where we pay as much as seven times the worth of our property.
As you know, that is because he will not do the 2016 tax reval that would lower them, only Torres has pledged this. Anyone on here who owns a house in Bridgeport should be paying LESS taxes, not simply no increases.
Reval does not lower taxes. It only shifts the burden.
Torres wants to shift the burden to the 53% of properties that are untaxed or minimally taxed. Eliminate waste. Bob, my favorite council meeting with you in it was when you railed against police commissioners serving with expired commissions, like, all of them or 80% or something. However, the state law is reval every five years, we are 2-3 past it already. Taxes went up with the 2008 reval, people were mad, then the market crashed and taxes stayed up. People are paying almost $10,000 in the Hollow, similar on the East Side. We all know taxes are strangling homeowners and have been for a long time in Bridgeport, yet people say leave them alone. What gives?
A revaluation is to equalized the market to assessment value. The market has changed therefore the assessments will change. That’s one factor, the other is the money the city needs to function. If the property values drop and the budget stays the same, your taxes will increase. The main factor in all this is cutting the budget and waste in the city.
Ganim or anyone who becomes Mayor can’t postpone the revaluation without the approval of the State. That being said, do you truly believe Malloy or the State Legislatures will allow that? Come on and stop drinking the kool-Aid!
I am watching How to get Away with Murder. No comment on this mailer.
Thank God, we’re tired of reading your comments. Do us a favor and take a few weeks off from OIB!
Someone please let me know where Stafstrom is pointing the street money on November 3rd. I could use an extra 20 bucks.
I could use the $20. My vote is for sale.
Good! Take the $20–tell them what they want to hear and VOTE TORRES! who is not buying votes. He has earned each one, however many there may be.
Steve, how much would it cost for you to vote for me?
Quentin, I am not in your district. My vote goes to Michelle Lyons and AmyMarie Paniccia.
How much was Captain Fincholater, your favorite superhero, going to pay for your vote?
Notice no African American photo in the Black Rock, North End and West Side piece. Plenty for the East Side, Hollow and South End.
Read into it what you may.
What happened to the Upper East Side? Guess we don’t matter.
Yes, you matter, Torres for your schools, taxes and access to government.