Wednesday, June 11, 2008

TRANSPARENCY IN HARTFORD ?


We keep hearing that Hartford City Hall wants to be open and transparent, yet actions seem to speak louder than words. After deciding to produce a program on Hartford Public Access Television titled "We the People", I've found that I apparently have a different definition of "transparent" than our city officials.
After attempting to view documents in conjunction with information received from a source at City Hall for a program, I was inadvertently sent an e-mail from Hartford Corporation Counsel John Rose calling me an "asshole". It has been an uphill battle to get information from our "transparent" Mayor ever since. As recently as last week I attempted to be added to the e-mail list of notifications for press conferences and press releases from the Mayor's Office. The Mayor's Press spokesperson Sara Barr, who landed at City Hall after she was jettisoned from WFSB, CBS Channel 3, is obviously in bunker mentality and has refused to add me to the list. Each time I ask her about it, she replies "I'm working on it". Today at a press conference I attempted to ask the Mayor a question, and he replied "No....no, I'm not talking to you". I guess transparency only applies if you are one of the puppets willing to blindly follow the Perez Express.
In the picture above, Mayor Eddie sings at a Holiday event, while others in City Hall and across the City are busy singing to the Grand Jury investigating Perez and his alleged corrupt activites.

More to come, but it's Red Sox time now.

2 comments:

  1. Wow! That's quite a story. I wonder why more people don't know this about the longtime mayor.

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  2. The whole scene at Hartford City Hall is like peeling wallpaper. The more you scratch at it, the more that gets exposed.

    Pretty soon the wall will be bare and people will finally realize the truth.

    It is amazing that so many people have something to say about corruption, dirty deals and other wrongdoing at Hartford City Hall.

    The question is, how long do we have to wait before they end up in jail?

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