What a NON-Show

Ok bare with us on this one, I know its long but we just had too much to say! Also, I know we'll be bashed for being a pro-republican blog again for this but we have to post things as we see them.

Last nights show on Comcast did just a little more to confirm my original opinions of the democrat’s possible candidate for Mayor. Helena Abrantes discussed all the great work she did for Eriquez during his administration and how she loves to help the community and how she wants to return Danbury to what it once was. Overall like I said before, I think Helena really cares about our community but she has none of the qualities needed to be Mayor.

Her biggest issue seemed to be the BRT tax incentives, she said that this is the first time in the history of Danbury that such tax incentives were given to a developer to build housing, even though that may be true, she should also take into account that this is the first time in Danbury’s history that our Downtown has lost so much business and become a place where most Danburians choose not to spend their time, so a first time tax break to a project that promises to bring more people downtown really isn’t such a horrible idea.

Helena also discussed how she’d like to change things by helping seniors to pay their bills and have food on the table, news flash, unless the democrats oppose it a tax credit is already being increased for our city’s seniors in the new budget.

Helena also expressed the importance of adding more police officers and safety personnel; check! That’s already been crossed off the list with plans discussed in the last 2 budgets, plus we are giving them a new fire house and police station, talk about a moral booster. Then she said if she was Mayor she’d give the police all the benefits they wanted, reality check, you can’t give everyone everything they want, if you do that the city goes into debt. Then Ivon came up with the brilliant view point that if you cut money in one area then you should do it for everything, another reality check, if you take money away, people get mad and the quality of service and programs go down.

Then she responds to a caller asking her if checks the legal status of her renters by saying, that isn’t mandatory, so basically she is going with the philosophy of look the other way or what you don’t know won’t hurt you. What kind of a Mayor would that make!?

Finally she complained about overdevelopment, then 10 minutes later she said we should use any available land to build more schools, which is it? Conserve our current open space or develop it?

Overall the show showed a candidate that needs to read from a piece of paper every time she wants to say something, like she did at the common council meeting on Tuesday night, and that she really has no specific points or plans. Also, has Ivon’s show got a new co-host? Why has Lynn Taborsak been on almost every week? It also seems to me that Ivon is getting alittle brainwashed, he showed his support for Helena in every way except to actually come out and say she can count on his vote. How about alittle more bipartisanship? And when a guest says that a Mayoral candidate shouldn't be reading from a piece of paper when she is saying what she stands for, don’t cut him off and say she really can be Mayor. That isn’t Mayor quality if you ask me.