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Monday, May 2, 2011

MORE CORPORATION COUNSEL INSANITY

The previous post should show that common sense is not overflowing in the Corporation Counsel's Office. The appeal filed by the City of Hartford in another matter involving a Hartford firefighter should back that lack of common sense up 100%.

The matter involved bumper stickers on the vehicle of one firefighter, who is Caucasian. Another firefighter, who is African American, objected to the bumper stickers because they depicted President Obama in a negative fashion.

The bottom line, that is what we call political free speech. Because the President is African American, criticizing him is not a racist incident. I can recall numerous bumper stickers portraying George W. Bush in a very negative fashion, but I never heard anyone call them racist.

Eventually this grievance ended up before the Labor Board. The only correction ordered by the Board was that the firefighter whose parking privileges inside the firehouse were revoked should once again be allowed to park inside the firehouse. No damages, no money, nothing monetary.

Yet now the City of Hartford in its infinite wisdom and free for all spending of the taxpayers money, has decided to appeal that decision.

WHY? Is there anyone steering this ship? Obviously not.

And not surprisingly, the wording of the appeal appears to be very similar to the Nolan appeal. Has someone learned how to use "cut and paste" in the Corporation Counsels Office?

Here is the latest motion below.

City of Hartford Appeal-DiGiacomo

CITY MOVES TO APPEAL NOLAN DECISION


If you read the hearing officers report on the Dan Nolan hearings, it seems pretty clear that he found no wrong doing on the part of Deputy Chief Dan Nolan. In fact, many of the witnesses called on behalf of the city, actually seemed as though they were better witnesses for Nolan.

Yet now the City of Hartford is moving to drag the matter out even longer. Sometimes you have to wonder if the Corporation Counsel's attorneys would gamble with their own money the way they do with the taxpayers funds. In a cash strapped City like Hartford, we can hardly afford another huge settlement that comes out of the pockets of the taxpayers.

City of Hartford Motion to Vacate Nolan Decision

Friday, April 29, 2011

FINALLY....THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION "WHO IS WILLIE EDWARDS ?"

If you read the blog regularly, you'll remember that a while back I asked the question "Who is Willie Edwards?.

Well, you have waited long enough and here is your answer.

Willie Edwards is a City of Hartford employee assigned to the Department of Public Works.On Saturday October 14, 2010, Willie was assigned to the DPW Transfer Station to supervise people dumping refuse and brush. AlthoughWillie appeared to be doing his job, he ran into a problem when he would not allow Charlie Ortiz to dump at the transfer station. Charlie Ortiz is the husband of Mayor Pedro Segarra. In the document below the "Description of Claim" clearly spells out the allegations that will result in yet another lawsuit against the City of Hartford

In the claim you will see that there is mention of an "investigation", I have asked DPW Director Kevin Burnham for that report, both by e-mail and in person. That report has not been provided to me as of yet."Willie Edwards Intent to File Suit

Thursday, April 28, 2011

IT'S OFFICIAL, 24 HOUR PERIOD RECORD

Since posting the Lt. Brooks information yesterday, over 2,302 hits were recorded on the blog for a 24 hour period, the best numbers yet since I started the blog.

Thanks for your support

A 'YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH " UPDATE



In yesterday's posting regarding the video of the Pawtucket Street shooting, I need to make a correction.

Several sources familiar with the investigation called or contacted me to let me know that my perception of what happened was wrong. In watching the video, I thought that a shot was actually fired from inside the car through the rear passenger window.

Apparently the suspects (or victims, depending on how you look at it) never fired any shots. Any shots fired were fired by Police Officers outside of the car. Although a gun was recovered from inside the car, it was never fired.

One source close to the investigation also stated that with the heavy tints on the cars window, they felt it would have been difficult for anyone outside of the vehicle to actually see anyone pointing a gun at them as one officer was heard saying on the video.

In looking at the video again, I think we are very lucky no police officers were shot by each other. If the shot was fired by a police officer, as I was told, from outside the vehicle, they would have been on the sidewalk and officers were approaching from both directions.

This video should be used by every Police agency in the country to show how things should NOT be done.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

ALL I CAN SAY IS ...WOW!!!

For anyone that follows the blog and the hit counter, "We the People" has surpassed a quarter of a million hits. Today is shaping up to be one of the better days as far as numbers. Between 4:00PM when I posted the item about Neville Brooks "You Can't Handle the Truth" and now, there has been almost a thousand hits. The next closest days were when I posted and predicted Eddie Perez's first arrest would take place the following day and all of Dan Nolan's pieces produced heavy blog traffic.

Keep the comments and information coming, none of this would be possible without you. Change is definitely taking place by shining light on what is happening in our City.