Leftist madness infected my Connecticut town council — now I’m at risk

New York Post ^ | Oct. 28, 2025, 6:27 p.m. ET | Andrew Fowler

[E. Pluribus Unum]

“Nazi bootlickers” are running rampant in Milford, Conn. — and apparently I’m one of them.

That is, according to a local Democratic committee member who hurled invective at me and other Republican aldermen at a public meeting this month.

The accusation reflected a growing national sickness: The harsh political rhetoric that led to Charlie Kirk’s assassination is eating away at the roots of American politics — our local town councils.  

An anti-Trump demonstrator with Rise and Resist holds a sign that reads ‘NO KINGS NO FASCIST NO TRUMP’ outside of Trump Tower on Fifth Ave. ZUMAPRESS.com

The ugliness exploded after our town’s elected GOP aldermen declined to approve Democratic nominee Toni Lombardi to temporarily fill a vacant seat on the board.  

At that, Nadine Padowicz — a member of the Milford Democrat Town Committee — slammed us as “homegrown Nazis,” simply for our affiliation with President Donald Trump.

In her remarks, Padowicz called Trump a “thug who is destroying our democracy” and said we Republicans “lick his boots.”

“You know what happens to Nazi bootlickers? They get kicked in the teeth,” she said threateningly.

Her words violated our town’s rules of public comment, which prohibit personal attacks and derogatory language.

Worse, they crippled the civic spirit that has historically bound neighbors together — even when we disagree.

The crowd’s reaction was just as disturbing: Attendees shouted and cheered their support of Padowicz’s insults.

The atmosphere grew so tense that police were called to intervene if necessary.

A keffiyeh-wearing local lingered in the hallways after the meeting, shouting “Shame!”

It was all in stark contrast to Milford’s slogan, “A Small City with a Big Heart.”

This episode in my hometown is a microcosm of a larger collapse in civility.

[13Sisters76]

I was born in Boston and lived in NE for the first whole half of my long life and watched the entire situation deteriorate. I can remember my grandparents talking about the Kennedys with the same reverent tone they used for the Pope (ethnic Irish catholics). The deep-dyed democrat mentality has always existed there, to the detriment of the entire society up there.
I learned to read in the 50s and developed a passion for American history, so my intense loathing of the democrat party is very old and I am glad to see so many of my fellow citizens beginning to wake up to the widespread damage that the democrat party has treated this country to FOR DECADES.

We can NEVER, EVER forget that the power of the people BEGINS at the local level. For instance, the beleaguered middle class in MA CAN beat the “university corridor” (BOS to WORC to SPRGFLD) IF they begin to take their local races seriously.