AND NOW.... MORE ON THE ARENA TAX SCHEME

Two weeks ago this blog uncovered documents showing that Hartford's Democratic Town Chairperson Sean Arena and his brother Ralph Arena, an elected member of the 4th District Democratic Town Committee, had been registering their vehicles in New Canaan. This appears to have been done to avoid Hartford's 74 mill tax rate on vehicles as opposed to New Canaan's rate of 13 mills.

Today the Hartford Courant reported on this scheme in their print version of the Courant. For those who didn't see it in the print version, here's a link to courant.com to read the story on-line.

CLICK HERE TO READ THE STORY

Be sure to read the comments after the story posted by the Courant's readers. Although no one is calling for Arena's resignation publicly yet, it seems that tyhe Courant's readers get it and find Arena's behavior just plain wrong.

In just about every other city or town the chief executive would have made a call to the Town Chairperson the same day calling for him to step aside.The call probably would have gone something like this... "We appreciate your service, but your actions question the credibility of our city and this administration and it is time for you to step down, please submit your resignation immediately". But since Hartford is now outpacing Waterbury and Bridgeport as the example for corrupt government, we know our Mayor Eddie Perez won't make that call any time soon.

And as a sidenote, can anyone explain the relationship between Sean Arena and Eddie Perez. I have never been able to figure that one out. And now,as the Town Committee races are heating up, it seems as though the Mayor is going for broke to ensure Arena's re-election for Town Chairperson. If anyone can explain to me the missing parts of the puzzle, please feel free to e-mail me or call me in complete confidence. None of it makes sense to me.