tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68686893170299676902011-07-08T03:13:46.189-07:00A discussion of town issues surrounding Brookfield including political issues, development issues, financial issues and whatever other issues specific to Brookfield Connecticut come about.Thomas Painenoreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6868689317029967690.post-42233896648844615132009-06-29T11:35:00.001-07:002009-06-30T11:36:55.555-07:00

Once again the strange just gets stranger. For my monthly sojurn into the weird and the bizarre, we look at the goings on in the town of Brookfield, Connecticut.Remember; it’s the small town in western Connecticut that advertised for a First Selectman some time ago.The Town of Brookfield has gone from a town with candidates running unopposed to one having multiple candidates running with a caucus

Thomas Painenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6868689317029967690.post-4528007937970988102009-05-31T14:40:00.000-07:002009-05-31T14:58:10.209-07:00

Interesting how the Republican and Democratic Town Committees in Brookfield refuse to focus on issues, but instead prefer to focus on individuals? No wonder the issues in town come secondary to party dogma and allegiance. Sound like the old Russia you use to know? Perhaps the Germany of a bygone error? A Red China model? Or perhaps the North Korea of today's modern era?You know, the one where

Thomas Painenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6868689317029967690.post-66194385317997788052009-05-17T19:39:00.000-07:002009-05-20T11:10:23.473-07:00

It appears that once again, an alternative to standard Republican/Democratic politics of Brookfield has begun to emerge as the election season starts to unfold and gets underway in earnest. A week ago Saturday at the Ridgewood Country Club in Danbury Paul Liubicich and Marty Foncello were seen at what appeared to be a pre-election workshop day stragey session in the dining room.Were they lining

Thomas Painenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6868689317029967690.post-65008493417203752202009-05-17T04:22:00.000-07:002009-05-23T06:02:24.245-07:00

Everyone in town should be shocked and appalled that tax payer dollars are being spent to track the time it takes to compile Freedom of Information requests.Any properly arranged filing, record keeping system should lend itself to the location of a given file or document in moments. If the documents are being screened before being made available then an illegal activity is occurring and the

Thomas Painenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6868689317029967690.post-57123001777789132022009-05-16T20:03:00.000-07:002009-05-16T20:14:28.551-07:00

While everyone has been concentrating on the budget issues in Connecticut, apparently Brookfield's State Representatives have been working hard at eliminating anything that enables good and timely communications with the Town of Brookfield's citizens regarding public business.Case in point is the bill, included below, introduced by State Senator Andrew "Mousie" Roraback. What will Brookfield's

Thomas Painenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6868689317029967690.post-37874668572141090772009-05-16T11:51:00.000-07:002009-05-16T11:52:41.486-07:00

Rumors abound throughout the town that the Republicans on the Town Committee (RTC) in Brookfield, Connecticut are "eating their own" and it is ugly. Are they being asked to swear an oath of allegiance to the RTC?Several reports have been circulating of intense questioning, not unlike those being questioned nationally, during the process of fielding it's set of candidates for this Novembers

Thomas Painenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6868689317029967690.post-38668482038655786552009-05-15T18:05:00.000-07:002009-05-23T05:59:40.023-07:00

Thomas Paine's Common Sense"Addressed to the Inhabitants of America... A New Edition, with Several Additions in the Body of the Work. To Which is added an Appendix; together with an Address to the People called Quakers. Philadelphia: W. and T. Bradford, 1791."AbstractPublished anonymously by Thomas Paine in January of 1776, Common Sense was an instant best-seller, both in the colonies and in

Thomas Painenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6868689317029967690.post-82782001956165143952009-05-15T07:07:00.000-07:002009-05-15T07:08:20.578-07:00

It has been said that all politics is local. If that is true then it is being acted out dramatically in one small Connecticut town, home to Governor Jodi Rell for almost three decades.Brookfield Connecticut, population 17,000, is one of the few towns in the state in which a majority of voters supported John McCain in the recent presidential election. It has a Republican First Selectman and a

Thomas Painenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6868689317029967690.post-13864920070112907832009-05-15T06:10:00.000-07:002009-05-15T06:13:55.445-07:00

Welcome to Brookfield Politics. We are starting this blog as you can see. The link to the blog is going to be activated shortly and will be brookfieldpolitics.blogspot.com. We are adding online political ads to highlight important issues in the town. As the issues change so will the ads and the links for them. The blog was started to counter left wing efforts to smear and harass people in

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