Walter Briggs submits a completed document to the town clerk, but while the city waits on its master plan, Briggs files to start fundraising on his run for mayor. He’s going to need to, since Moccia has raised just under $25k according to the campaign filings. Briggs tapped a blogger from Fairfeld, Matt Wagner to be his campaign manager. That would be the same Mattw who comments here occasionally. Having Matt manage Walter’s campaign is a great score for progressive bloggers. Matt has been writing for MyLeftNutmeg. He also worked for Ned Lamont last year.

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Last night’s council meeting ran on and on. You would think that the hotly debated issues of the night would be over, oh say, the need for the BOE to get $1 million more after getting $600k more (thanks to State Rep Chris Perone’s priority grant funding work), but no. Apparently after the usual shameless criminal defense lawyeresque, “i will say anything to get my client off” diatribe from Matt Miklave over the “draconian” cuts to programs and education that “he told you so” to the rest of the council, the mightier than thou Miklave decided to separate himself from reality and say that only he was right about whether the state would increase its funding to Norwalk and that the real estate conveyance tax projections were underestimated. The big lie was his assertion that the decision by the council to hold the increase to less than 4% was going to result in disruption to education, teachers would be laid off, and programs would be cut.

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