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Just when you sat back on the easy chair ready to light up your stogie, The POCD is back! {ominous music} Goto the One City One Plan page to see what the next phase of the process is. Links to the upcoming P&Z listening sessions available there. See you at the meetings!!
*** update: I misspelled Wareing, when referring to Mrs. Wareing in both this post as well as a subsequent comment. I have corrected the spelling on both. My apologies to the Wareings. *** Well, with CityLine being as updated as IonHartford, there seems to be only one outlet that is delving into the underpinnings of the fancy, screwed up web we call City Hall. That’s right folks, Kevin Brookman’s own We the People, is our blog of choice for the juiciness that is the back room politics of the city. His latest post is a very well researched and retold account of the goings on leading up to the upcoming Democratic Town Committee elections in March. Here’s the link Speaking of CityLine, Jeff Cohen has found his way to NPR and is doing similar reporting on local political news. Here’s his latest story on this very issue with the Democratic Town Committee. Funny think is that in the story we’re asked to believe that names like Kennelly and DiBella in Hartford equals change Here’s the link Look forward to my own post with endorsements closer to election time. Just peeking through Twitter to check out what people are saying and I came across a most incredible exchange:
Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill aka @clairecmc : If we printed the health care bill in regular size font it would be same legnth (sic) as Sarah Palin’s book, but with more meat on the bone. [a pathetic attempt to jump on the anti-Palin bandwagon, bad form for a US Senator, but...pretty funny] Jordan Lawrence of Springfield, MO aka @lawrencejordan: @clairecmc you don’t have to be a bitch, I am not following you anymore and will look for someone else in the future senate seat! [yes my friends, Jordan just called a US Senator a bitch] @Lawrencejordan Goodness, just an attempt at a little humor. [I love the "Goodness"] @clairecmc I am for strong women in office you didn’t have to belittle your minority. I appolygize (sic) for calling you that. Some interesting background. Senator McCaskill has 34,843 “followers”, has “tweeted” 1,232 times so far and only follows one person, her Communications Director Adrianne Marsh (@adriannemarsh). What do I surmise from this? Adrianne Marsh is in charge of the Twitter account and she apparently thought that all of the Senator’s 34,843 followers would chuckle at the Palin dig….safe to say she was wrong. Jordan Lawrence is a father (cute background image of he and child) out of the Springfield, Missouri area who “follows” 163 and is “followed” by 14 people. He has “Tweeted” a total of 165 times and under BIO, he states, “This is my person journal. pretty much to vent….” Well, can’t say he’s a liar. A further study of the exchange shows that it happened between the hours of 2:16am and 3:33am, further solidifying my informal study that shows that most stupid shit happens after 1am. So, if you don’t wanna be involved in stupid shit…goto sleep! Yup folks, that’s my Saturday while Mom and the Baby are gone. Let me see what else I can dig up…. Our friends over at The Hartford Independent Media Center have a great link to the latest RadioActive radio show. This week there’s a conversation regarding Homelessness in Hartford with Brian Baker of the South Park Inn, Natalie Matthews and Sara Zucker of the Ct Coalition to End Homelessness. Check it out here. |
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… good one. Although Rebecca Wareing in the report does sound very sincere in her dissatisfaction with the status quo. Which says alot about the medium of radio and its ability to cut through the bs of verbal spin.
