Sometimes you just have to go to the video tape:

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This is going to be the first in a series of guest posts about issues in Norwalk. yourCT.com is a non-partisan site dedicated to airing all sides of an issue. That can’t happen without valuable contributions from our readers.

BET OP-Ed

By Michael W. Lyons

As a member of the Board of Estimate, a former member of the Common Council, and a parent of three children who are in or have come through our public schools, I know how important our school system is to our city. I’m the former chair of the Marvin School Council, and my wife Elizabeth is now Marvin School PTO Co-President, after serving nine years on the Board of Education. We’ve put in years of volunteer service to the schools; we know them from the inside. We know excellent teachers and other dedicated staff who’ve done a good job educating our children.

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Does this guy ever work at the BOE? Is anyone watching?

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Strangely, after Thomas Vetter “found” 2 million in cuts. Corda mounted a new offensive in the Common Council Finance committee. After a heated, but without discussion of the real numbers, debate, the committee of 3 Norwalk-outers, Miklave, Briggs, and Sutton and Hilliard voted to ad $2.8 million to the cap. Hempstead and Straniti voted against.
This move might be mostly theater, something that the outers were denied on Tuesday and likely will be the last bit last night. The first hurdle will be the BET, which is where any extra cap money would be allocated. At this point the BET had come in with a budget under the present cap, so it is not likely they will rework the budget.

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Well so much for getting much work done today, because after several phone calls I had to turn on CT-N to watch Bruce Morris bloviate on the Bill on Same Sex Marriage. Oh what a surprise Bruce Morris has decided to vote against it because:

marriage is “for the furhter of the human race, it is only heterosexuals couples that are born to have children without outside intervention”

But if you think my take is bad, take a gander what the dems over at myleftnutmeg have to say …

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