After being arrested and terminated from the Hartford Police Department on Larceny charges, former Hartford Police Officer and current 6th District State Representative Hector Robles has apparently landed a new job. According to sources, Robles is the new Security Director for Ticket Network of South Windsor. Calls to Ticket Network for comment were met with a "no comment". The only response was that Hector Robles was "unavailable".
Ticket Network was the second company to receive millions in State of Connecticut dollars as part of Governor Malloy's "First Five" business development plan. Robles was a member of the Legislature while the loans to Ticket Network were being approved.
Ticket Network also lists Hartford Democratic Town Committee Treasurer Jay Mullarkey as its "Vice President-Community Relations". A request for a comment from Mullarkey was rebuffed by his staff at Ticket Network, Mullarkey, like Robles was "unavailable".
Robles's larceny charges are still pending in Hartford Superior Court, he recently entered a plea of "not guilty".
33 comments:
Mullarkey plays both sides of the aisle and is a traitorious Democrat at best. He fund-raised for Federle's efforts to obtain the Republican endorsement for Governor and gave Federle a $50. contribution.
In addition, Mullarkey is a cheerleader for Mayor Segarra's cross endorsement with the Republicans.Mr Mullarkey is working very comfortably with his 1st district co-chairs Thompson Page and John Kennelly and with the 5th district chair,Marc DiBella, to assist the Republicans.Their meetings with the Republican Town Chair, Mike McGarry have been most cordial and one would logically assume that they were all of the same party.
Great job, Kevin. Yet again, your blog has the story before the traditional news and TV media. Keep it up. Hartford needs you!!
Is this really a story? Hector Robles needs to be employed and take care of his case. Whatever the outcome of that diaster for him let him work in peace.
The following either have been seen meeting with Republicans,talking up republicans to other democrats and/or working behind the scenes to effecuate a republican victory over the WFP:
1. Pedro Segarra
2. Ken Kennedy
3 Jean Holloway
4. Alex Aponte
5. Kyle Anderson
6. Jay Mullarkey
7. Mark DiBella
8. Tom Page
9. John Kennelly
10. Ramon Arroyo
11. Minnie Gon$alez
12 Nick Carbone
13 Elaine Hatcher
Anonymous 1:56PM
The hiring of Robles might be a problem if it is a " no show" job. And there certainly would be questions if the recent state money( money from you and I ) were used to hire a person who is a state legislator who has been arrested for multiple felonies.
Yes it is really a story!
Hector steals $10.000 Dollars or more from the city of Hartford, gets fired, appeals.
Ticket Network, receives Million's of Taxpayer dollars, Hires Hector who stole from Hartford taxpayers. And now we as taxpayers are getting the shaft again!
I do not think this is what Governor Malloy envisioned with this money.
I guess Hector's deal with the mayor did not workout so much for breakfast at Ashley's. Hey Hector had to get a job somewhere how much will he skim from this job.
Who's the ugly guy across from Hector's picture???
Ummmm, I know that no one in the city and/or state understands the concept, but isn't Robles being hired by a company that gets state aid a "conflict of interest"? Maybe not because there are bigger conflicts going on and no one is interested???
Publius and Republican Mullarkey:
What's so wrong with supporting three budget conscious republicans over Luis-spend-it-even-when-you-don't-have-it-Cotto, when the City has been and continues to be so financially mismanaged?
The debate over "republican" vs. WFP council members is not one of national conservative republican ideologies vs. liberal democratic dogma. The debate concerns replacing a completely inept Council who continually shirk their responsibility to properly manage this City, with level-headed folks who will, at least sometimes, put the City's interests ahead of their own. I will support the latter regardless of what "party" they attach themselves to in order to get elected.
The City simply can not continue with "leaders" who spend their time supporting the national debates on immigration and proper police interrogation techniques (Luis again) instead of on how to make our money go further and bring businesses into the City, both in order to provide vital services and jobs for its citizens.
I just would like to take this opportunity to thank Publius for informing me of what I have been doing. I always wondered what I was doing but since Publius knows what I am doing I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks!
Anonymous 9:19AM
If you want to support only those candidates that have and will "bring in business" to Hartford and spend our tax dollars in a frugal manner, then you shouldnt support and of the endorsed Democrats that have been on the Council before,like Kennedy and Aponte since they are at least as complicit in the over-spending and deficit situation in Hartford as Luis ever was.
Needless to say your Republican party continues to speak out of both sides of its mouth when it says it wants to support conservative candidates but then again is allies itself with Socialistic Democrats in a crossed endorsed compact with Pedro.The 3 Democratic Council candidates that rejected the cross endorsement would have taken the endorsement, but for the flack that they received from good democrats within their own party.
Dear Elaine...care to explain your campain contribution to Angel Morales? At the time that you gave him that campaign contribution it was well known that he was a felon and danced before some young teenage boy late at night in his campaign office.If you didn't know about Mr Morales' proclivities, but found out later, why didnt you ask for your money back?
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe Mr. Robles has been convicted of anything yet. Let the man work for a living and stop kicking someone when they are down. If he is cleared of all charges, many of you will jumping on that band wagon blaming someone else.
Anonymous @ 11:34am,
Please read back in earlier posts where former Officer Robles admitted to IAD investigators that he knew what he did was wrong and provided that in a statement to them.
Is Hector the only one who stole from the PD and the City? Probably not. Does that remove him from responsibility for his actions? Definitely not.
And does anyone look at the appearance of impropriety? That would be like the Mayor putting a known predator in Youth Serrvices.
(and no, I am not comparing Robles to a sexual predator, just an analogy)
Anonymous, I like your rationale regarding the votes against Luis. Regarding the options, my only issue is that, after 20 years, the only thing that the Republican representative Veronica Airey Wilson was known for were her grant countertops. And her successor, Councilman Brinson looks like he's sleeping half the time and has done absolutely nothing during his short time there other then not accept his pay. I do like Mr. Fryer.
regarding the options....the lone republican,Veronica Airey-Wilson, during the eddie years was arrested and plead out on AR.Her nephew Corey Brinson took her spot and likes to sleep and doze off during Council meetings.Then you have Mike McGarry,who owns a magazine,in which the City of Hartford places advertisements,of which he gets lot of money.McGarry's revenue from the City of Hartford has gone up alot since his unholy alliance with Pedro begun in June.
Tell me again why we should vote for these corrupt Republicans?
Dear Anonymous @ 11:23 A.M. not that it is any of your business what I do with my money but I gave Angel that money in June. When he turned it in is entirely his business - so why don't you mind your business and stay out of mine.
What's so wrong with supporting three budget conscious republicans...?
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Beats me.
Peter Brush...voters arent going to reward republicans when their leadership was part of the corrupt Perez administration.Nor have these 3 republican candidates repudiated McGarry's alliance with Perez for ads in his magazine nor have they repudiated Veronica.In addition,I have observed Attorney Brinson sleeping or dozing during Council meetings.
Lastly Peter, how on earth do you think that these 3 republican candidates have any budget conscience when they have said nothing concrete or precise in their literature?Furthermore Peter, those 3 republicans are allied with socialistic democrats who never met a tax hike that they didnt like, so they apear to be phonies to many of us.If they were truly conservative they wouldnt be making alliances with socialistic democrats.
Elaine...you knowingly gave a political contribution to a felon.You are what is wrong with politics and the Hartford Democratic Town Committee.I urge you to resign as you have disgraced your elected position.
Once a crook always a crook
Why would anyone care what Elaine Hatcher does? She is clueless.
Anonymous 11:19, 3:12 and 5:01 and dearest Cicero - Below are a few secrets, which apparently elude you, to understanding Hartford politics:
1.The 6 endorsed democrats for council will win in November, so supporting them or not makes absolutely no difference in the election.
2. The only real impact voters have in the council race is deciding who will be there with the 6 dems to make decisions when the 6 dems can't agree and therefore carry the vote themselves. People who are maneuvering about the republicans vs. WFP are simply tired of seeing what the WFP candidates have done over the past four years - nothing less and nothing more. This is NOT the earth-shattering socio-political cultural struggle you all want it to be. Pick the most well-meaning, thinking folks who will actually understand the priorities the city is faced with and will address them without their hand out first, regardless of their "party" affiliation.
3. Not supporting current republican candidates merely because Airey-Wilson got a countertop is just plain stupid logic.
4. McGarry is what he is and will have negligible effect on any republican candidates once they enter office.
5. The republican "alliance" was never a sign their candidates were really closet liberals in disguise, but merely and simply an alliance to get themselves elected. With 33,000 dems, 1,800 republicans and 40 WFP voters registered in Hartford, who would you align yourself with at election time?
6. There will be no perfect candidate on the November ballot - none of you great political prognosticators on this blog apparently did anything to find and support better candidates other than to bitch on this blog about the options we now have. That is not a solution, but really just a lazy man's/woman's way to make yourselves feel you are doing something. I'm not impressed.
7. The next time the position of ANY national political party determines the outcome of a Hartford city council decision, I'll eat my shoe.
Let me guess, its not okay for Mr.Robles to get a job. I read few articles of what Robles did, basically he worked private duty jobs but never worked his regular shift, am I right or wrong?
No matter what he needs to have job, so we should condone that if your arrested you have no second chance.
Give it break already, he has suffered enough with the public disgrace and is only looking to get back on his feet. I know him very well and he is a good person beyond all the media blemishes
Here is something for you to investigate brookman, look into the new public safety complex. why is it being built on a lot that cannot support all the police personnel, look into the reason why Jaffee is the projector manager for the complex, look into why the complex originally planned was going to have 5 floors and it was cut down to 3. look into why the parking garage was supposed to be 4 levels and it is now 2.
What i see here is pure shoddy work. the fact alone that the rumor is that their is no room on that lot hold all the police personnel vehicles. The building has no room for growth. factor in now their is going to be the fire department admin offices and to include the ambulance dispatch. This is just a money pit. It looks good but once again cramp quarters for all. We have not even touch on public parking.
Take a walk around that new facility. Where are police personnel suppose to park? on the train tracks.
Anonymous 8:34
Sorry but I don't buy your rationalizations.
It is logical to assume that if the Republicans won, they would have a bigger voice and visibility and the vote total for them would logically be higher,due to their increased voice and visibility, in 2012 in the Presidential and open Senate seats.Therefore this "alliance" between Pedro,Republicans and some democrats will definitely hurt hte efforts of the Dems for those 2012 races.Pedro and other dems allied with the Republicans arent doing any favors to the Democrats vieing for those positions.Since the Council races are for 4 years and since Governor Malloy only won by an eyelash,it does him a dis-service as well.
voters arent going to reward republicans when their leadership was part of the corrupt Perez administration
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Let's see. The voters won't support Republicans because Dem Eddie was corrupt? Unfortunately, the electorate in this town may be about that rational.
All we can do is choose between presented options for the three available (non-Eddie-Pedro-Dem)seats. Anyone giving consideration to the city's budget doesn't have to look deeply into positions of individual candidates. The WFP is pretty much explicitly fiscally imprudent. Social justice is its aim, not limited government. Nothing I've seen from Councilmen Deutsch or Cotto suggests to me otherwise.
Peter Brush...you didnt answer the rest of my assertions,therefore your silence can only mean that you either agree with those assertions or have no logical answer for them.
As to your one answer;
voters wont support republicans not so much that Eddie was corrupt but more importantly because the Republican Leadership was a junior partner in the corruption.The present Republican Council candidates havent repudiated their own corrupt leadership and therefore logically the voters wont feel obligated to support them.
The voters having a choice between fiscally imprudent candidates or candidates who are enablers or "quislings" who wont repudiate their own party leadership will tend to support the former,not the latter.
Bruce: Your logic misses at least one crucial fact: the increased vote total of any Hartford voters for the Republican council candidates, by definition, must be Democratic voters, since only 1,800 Repubulicans exist in the city, there won't be any more of them bewteen now and the 2012 elections, and 1,800 votes won't win you a council seat.
Where's the logic that those Democrats, therefore, simply because they voted for 3 Republicans for Hartford city council, will then be so enthused by the Republican council members' agenda and vision, that they will vote Republican in the 2012 presidential and senate races?
To proclaim that a groundswell of Hartford dem voters, sufficient to hurt a national or statewide dem's chances of election, will arise from three republican council members' influence, and will also turn their back on Obama in 2012, is downright silly. Where's the rationalization to that?
PS - I already have a "set", and am not fixated on them.
voters wont support republicans
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I wish I could disagree with you, Spartacus. (Different question as to what voters ought to do, particularly if they were to give a fig about the town.) But, if the electorate were really concerned about corruption wouldn't you expect Democrats to take it on the chin? And, as to facilitating, I never heard a peep from Cotto or Deutsch when it would have been appropriate for Eddie to resign.
Check out Dem Mayor Moreau in Central Falls. At least the city isn't being run by corrupt Republicans.
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Mr. Moreau, a Democrat serving his fourth term, has not set foot in City Hall since July 19, the day that a state-appointed receiver took control. The state police knocked on his door that morning, he said, demanded his city-owned car and cellphone and keys to City Hall and handed him a letter announcing that his salary of $71,736 was being cut to $26,000. His role was now advisory, he was informed.
“I was told they’d call if they needed me,” Mr. Moreau said recently in a rare interview. “They haven’t called since.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/us/22mayor.html?pagewanted=all
Hector agreed to double dipping. Really, really is that what has captured the minds of all who wanted to go after Lt. Dailey and set him up with a simple lamb like Robles.
If you want a real investigation to be angry about, look into rape allegations. Only this time go back 20 years. If those individuals can retire and go on to live comfortable lives Hector should be given full medical coverage.
Dear Anonymouns (October 13, 2011 @ 11:23 A.M. - I don't have to resign for contributing to anyone's campaign. Since Angel Morales didn't have a sign on him stating that he was a "convicted felon" when I gave him my contribution than I maintain you should mind your own business or grow a set of balls and put your name up here as I do mine. Or you can contact me personally to discuss this matter that is of such concern to you. I don't have the time to research everyone's background prior to donating to a campaign. Since you have so much time on your hands why don't you send me a list of people that you feel that I shouldn't donate to.
Mr. King, you are correct! I am clueless and I will remain clueless if I have to stoop to the level of you and Anonymous. You have no solutions other than complaining about what happens in Hartford. 9 out of 10 chances neither one of you live in Hartford nor have a clue (your word)as to what is actually going on in Hartford. More than likely you are working in Hartford taking a job away from a Hartford resident and sprewing your discontent. Sine you have so much time on your hands to solve the problems of Hartford you should get involved and be part of the solution rather than a part of the problem.
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