Real Hartford inquired with Mayor Segarra’s campaign manager on March 12. We received no response. We asked again on March 15 and were told we would hear back. Our deadline was noon on March 18, 2015.
Mayoral Campaign 2015: Pedro Segarra (Incumbent)
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Donna Swarr
Thank you so much, although my 2 top priorities were not addressed directly; managing municipal operations and finding excellent candidates for ‘open/interim’ or poorly managed departments.
Kerri Provost
Given that the mayor’s campaign manager did not arrange for the interview to occur, none of our questions got answered.
Christopher Brown
To be fair, I think the Segarra campaign kind of answered the transparency question after a fashion.
Kerri Provost
To be even more fair, his second campaign manager is gone after, what, one week?
Anne Goshdigian
Less than that–4 or 5 days.
Bruce Rubenstein
there is no surprise that you were strung along…the Mayor has constantly ducked and/or refused to answer any hard questions and/or refuses to take any responsibility for the departmental failures that have happened under his watch.
Kerri Provost
Nobody here was surprised
Richard
So the question is Will anyone roll out of bed and vote? Is there really anyone to vote for? None of these guys mentioned so far would cause me to get out of bed, refresh myself and go out the door and walk over to the next building to vote. I love my ZZZZZZZ more than this band of guys.
Ken Krayeske
Richard – Describe your optimal mayoral candidate, please. Call me curious.
Richard
Well as I said none of the ones listed here are my pick. I am sure when the candidate appears I will know it. I see one I really like waiting in the wings. For many of us as activists we would prefer a mayor who is an activist mayor one who pushes the envelope. Just a few things. I would like the next mayor to get on board with the $15 per hour, (hardly enough in this day and age) with building housing for seniors, moderate to low income folks, with no more tax give-a-ways for building luxury apartments downtown, with not betting away our future on foolish deals such as the stadium. I would like to see an activist mayor and city council that would take the old YMCA building and convert it to transitional housing for the homeless with services and training to help them get back on their feet. We wrote a piece on our blog which will describe where we are coming from.
https://furbirdsqueerly.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/a-bit-of-queer-eye-on-hartford-a-few-things-of-interest-to-us/#more-7972
Justin
So, so much hot air about bikes and alternative transportation from all the guys interviewed here. No one seems to have any specific plans for getting the departments in hand that are obstructing so many languishing plans in the City. How long has there been a plan for taming traffic on Fairfield Ave? How old is our bus transportation grid? How empty sound the boiler-plate “I’ll get everyone’s resignation” claims. I’ll vote for the person who is willing to tell us how they will systematically reform DPW. Give us details. Otherwise this all sounds like hot air, and we know everyone’s friends in this very small, one-party town will continue to just keep their jobs. An uninspiring election if there ever was one. Justin