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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

DENIED, DENIED, DENIED AND DENIED


All of the motions submitted by the defense team for our allegedly corrupt Mayor Eddie A. Perez were denied this morning.

Perez was ordered by Judge Dewey to report for jury selection Monday morning and was told not to make any plans other than attending court until at least July.

The week is young though, plenty of time for more frivolous motions before court proceedings actually begin Monday

Thursday, April 1, 2010

HAS THE MAYOR'S NEW CAR ARRIVED?




Eddie Perez has filed motions with Superior Court that he can't get a fair trial because of the "anti-Hartford" sentiment. If he feels so strongly that he is disliked that much by our suburban neighbors, he might want to consider the armored vehicle above for his travel needs.

It might not be a smooth ride and I'm sure the gas mileage is awful, but when has Eddie ever worried about how much he spends.

Seriously though, the above vehicle along with 2 other similar vehicles were recently purchased for use in the Capitol region area by Police Emergency Response teams. The one above will be housed in Hartford and the other two will be kept in Vernon and West Hartford.

The vehicles were apparently purchased through a grant from CRCOG, the Capitol Region Council of Governments.

Hopefully you will never see this vehicle pulling into your driveway, but if it does, maybe it is Eddie coming for coffee

WILL ANYTHING BE LEFT TO RENOVATE AT THE PROPOSED PUBLIC SAFETY COMPLEX?


Last fall I posted about the "new" Hartford Public Safety Complex on High Street.

It seemed that large portions of the structure had collapsed and gaping portions of the brick facade were caving in. I drove by today and saw that the main portion of the facade that was the entrance to the building has also collapsed and the historic entrance is now gone. Large portions of the old brownstone carved entry are laying in a parking lot across the street.

Over the winter months there seems to have been very little progress and even today, there were four cars parked in the contractors parking lot and no one was visible working on the site.

Any bets on when this project will be completed and how much the "over-runs" will total?

IS JUSTICE DELAYED REALLY JUSTICE DENIED?


When Eddie Perez was arraigned after his first arrest in 2009, Perez's lawyer stated that Perez was ready to go to trial at 2:00PM that afternoon. The phrase "Justice delayed is justice denied"has been thrown out repeatedly by Perez and Santos.

But in the latest saga of Perez's corruption scandal, Perez and his attorney seem determined to drag out the process even longer. Although months have gone by since Perez's last visit to Judge Dewey's courtroom, Attorney Santos has waited until the week before Jury selection and pretrial "housekeeping" was to begin to file more motions that may potentially delay the trial even further.

The motions can be read below. The motions seem to be rather short on substance and Santos is doing what defense lawyers. If the truth won't work in your favor for a defense, you grasp at straws and use every trick you can to hopefully avoid watching your client report to prison.

All four motions are somewhat interesting though. I like the request for a change of venue. The motion claims "a generalized anti-Hartford bias from the towns and cities surrounding Hartford" make it impossible for Perez to receive a fair trial. How can this possibly be with that great "leadership" we keep hearing about from the Mayor's Office? If I recall, under Mayor Mike we still had our problems but Mike Peter's was able to build a sense of good will with our suburban neighbors.

Is Perez now telling us that he has squandered that goodwill in his several years as Mayor and the suburbs don't care for him? But the even larger question is why does he want the Jury selection to take place in Hartford and then move the trial after the jury is selected. I might be missing something, but the witnesses will remain the same no matter where the trial is held. After the jury is selected in Hartford, even if the trial venue is moved the jury will remain the same. So what is the benefit of the request for a change of venue after jury selection?

Could it possibly just be a motion to cloud the issue more and delay further? It would appear that way to me.

The only benefit to Perez though, in addition to delaying the inevitable, is that if Hubie Santos' fees are being paid by the City of Hartford as many people believe, the checkbook remains open and no stunt is too costly.

And yes, you read that right, apparently no bills have been submitted yet by Santos, but the City of Hartford claims that they are "obligated" to pay for Perez's defense.

Perez Motions 3-29-10

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

HERE WE GO AGAIN... MORE NONSENSE FROM BILLIE SCRUSE




I guess some people never learn, and really don't care who is watching.

For those that follow the blog, you are well aware of the ongoing "Sasha Show" saga and the heavy handed tactics of Hartford Public Access Television Executive Director Billie Scruse. But, as I have said many times about the Perez Administration, Billie Scruse is now also becoming a "gift that keeps on giving" when it comes to blog entries.

For those that need to get up to speed about the controversy regarding Sasha Hunter and the "Sasha Show", here is the original posting, click here,"Billie Scruse puts the screws to the Sasha Show"

I would think that after arbitrarily suspending Sasha's program and the uproar over it, any sane person would tread lightly on future actions. Not Billie Scruse though, apparently with her a vendetta is a vendetta, pure and simple.

At the producers meeting held on Monday March 15, 2010, Sasha Hunter attended and completed the request for "time slots" for her upcoming season of programs. I was also in attendance and saw her filling out forms and then saw her hand them to Scruse and her assistant at the meeting, HPATV employee Joe Hilliman. I can't swear as to what was on the forms, but she did hand completed forms to Scruse.

Now, in what comes down to incompetency at the very least and insanity at the worst, Scruse has apparently "lost" the forms that Sasha Hunter turned in. The end result in Scruse's eyes is that Hunter is off the air for another season. The schedule has already been made so , sorry Sasha, you're out for another three months.

From what I have seen of Scruse's operation, both the incompetency theory and the insanity defense might apply, but to refuse to correct the situation is inexcusable. There are plenty of open time slots that the "Sasha Show" could be inserted into. But I think Scruse figures she can do whatever she wants without any repercussions.

Sorry Billie, wrong again. Section 16-331a of the Connecticut General Statutes, as well as other Federal Statutes govern the operations of Public Access Television operations. Section (g) of the state statutes should be something Scruse might want to memorize "(g) No organization or company providing community access operations shall exercise editorial control over such programming, except as to programming that is obscene and except as otherwise allowed by applicable state and federal law.

Scruse's actions might be considered obscene by some, but Sasha's show definitely is not.

Where is the Board of Director's, are they oblivious to what is happening?

I would expect more from an organization whose middle name is "PUBLIC"

HERE IS THE OFFICIAL DECISION

State Central Dispute Decision