Posted on 06/04/2012 10:34:14 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Opposition from state veterans groups prompted Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to reverse his support Monday for using state funds to repair a New Haven community center that houses a Communist newspaper.
Malloy, whose administration has gone back and forth on whether to finance $300,000 in renovations for the New Haven People's Center, issued a brief statement during the State Bond Commission meeting before moving on to the next agenda item without discussion.
And one of the two Republican legislators who spearheaded opposition to the funding, Rep. Sean J. Williams of Watertown, said after he would ask the Democratic governor's administration to participate in a bipartisan effort to reform how potential bond fund recipients are researched.
"It's clear to me that enough questions have been raised," Malloy said. "I am particularly concerned about the opposition of veterans' groups."
Malloy has significant control over state financing dollars raised through the sale of bonds on Wall Street.
As governor, he not only chairs the 10-member bond commission, but his budget director and his construction services commissioner also serve on the panel. And the governor's budget office has sole authority to set the commission's regular agenda.
In addition, eight of the 10 seats on the commission -- which also includes four legislators, the treasurer, attorney general and comptroller -- are held by Democrats.
The Malloy administration put $300,000 to fund masonry work, roof repairs and other improvements to the center at 37 Howe St. on the commission's April 27 agenda at the request of state Sen. Toni Harp, D-New Haven.
But the administration then abruptly tabled the item after Republican legislators disclosed that the nonprofit that runs the center, Progressive Education and Research Associates, has strong ties to the state Communist Party.
Two members of the nonprofit's governing board are Communist Party officers, and the center is home to "The People's World," a communist newspaper.
But on May 24 the administration announced the project was again on pace to receive funding, and would get commission approval on June 4.
The administration echoed those points, and Malloy's senior policy adviser, Roy Occhiogrosso, said last week that opponents were " trying to score some cheap political points using a playbook from the 1950s," referring to Cold War-era, anti-Communist hysteria. He noted that the center also houses arts, youth development, anti-hunger and other social service programs, and the center is recognized on the state's African American Freedom Trail........ Continued
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[D. CT Gov.] Malloy, whose administration has gone back and forth on whether to finance $300,000 in renovations for the New Haven People's Center, issued a brief statement during the State Bond Commission meeting before moving on to the next agenda item without discussion. And one of the two Republican legislators who spearheaded opposition to the funding, Rep. Sean J. Williams of Watertown, said after he would ask the Democratic governor's administration to participate in a bipartisan effort to reform how potential bond fund recipients are researched... Roy Occhiogrosso, said last week that opponents were " trying to score some cheap political points using a playbook from the 1950s,"
(Of course she's a communist - she's one of Holder's people)
"The Malloy administration put $300,000 to fund masonry work, roof repairs and other
improvements to the center at 37 Howe St. on the commission's April 27 agenda at the
request of state Sen. Toni Harp, D-New Haven.""I think people just got carried away by the hype and I understand that," Harp added.
"What I don't understand is people not understanding where we are today in history.
My community is going to be hurt by it."
Commies R’ Us.
the field general caught us red-handed.
Congratulations and thank you to CT Patriots like FReeper PALIN SMITH for mobilizing the "troops" in fighting "Dannell88" over this latest outrage.
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