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  1. Mayor Ganim is saving $150 per household in taxes. Mayor Ganim, do something that isn’t politically expedient, keep the taxes the same and move that $150 per household to the school budget that which you have consistently underfunded under your leadership.

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    1. Don, that’s a start, now he can layoff all of those political appointees and they raises he gsve out. He could show real leadership my taking a 10% pay cut along with his department heads.

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      1. So there’s no more money for the education budget, no money to fix the sidewalks, but there is money for raises to Ganim and his handpicked staff of political loyalists. That makes about as much sense as tits on a boar.

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  2. The way the proposed tax cut has to be explained to voters door to door and in mailers is as follows:

    Gsnim”s proposed tax cut would save your household $150.00 per year, or $2.88 per week. A $200 tax cut would save your household $3 84 per week. A $ 250 savings per year would save your household $4.80 per week.

    Will this election year gimmick substantially improve you and your families lives after Mayor Ganim passed the largest tax increase in Bridgeport’s history 6 months after he was elected on a “STOP Raising Taxes” platform in 2015?

    It is critical that we never vote for a lieing politician. When we continue to vote for a lieing politician we are teaching that politician they can lie, continue to lie and get away with it. We embolden that lieing politician. Do you agree?

    Can I count on you to join me in not giving your precious vote to unethical, dishonest and lieing Joe Ganim?

    Great! Circle that 1 or 2 on your walk sheet and keep at it. 🙂

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  3. Obviously Ganim2 has decided that increases in education dollars for public schools is a State responsibility and not his to work towards, to plan for, to make a priority of the DTC and State delegation, NOT JUST NOW, but for every month of his incumbency. Where are the numbers a thoughtful Office of Integrity and Accountability might use in City press releases to highlight problem areas or show advances from focused policy and taxpayer dollars?? How much power is too much power in a Mayor’s hands when actual progress is not recorded and made public month and quarter of every year?? (How many readers keep track of their modest wealth without goals, timelines, and hard numbers?)
    Capital projects suffer the same tragedy in the City as evidenced by the Public Facilities garage fiasco. Original bids, plan revisions, expense overruns, leading to a complicated story that undercuts understanding and public trust. And the labor deals that get settled are not even conceptually shared previous to their conclusion three years late, for instance. And the budget is released without the impact weeks later contemplated? And the Mayor releases his letter to taxpayers, with a tax cut emboldened in print, but nary a comment about four years of City funding of public schools. Not even half a truth, I’d suggest. Time will tell.

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