The hoary chestnut of fund raising political fund raising is that Republicans can easily out raise Democrats. Another is that unions blindly support Democrats. Norwalk is a horse race of a different color. After a cursory review of the filings in the mayors race, I have observed that Briggs pulled in more $1000 dollar donations than Moccia. That Moccia had more $25 and $50 donations, and mostly from Norwalk addresses. That trade unions donated to Moccia. That otherwise, it was a pain to flip through actual paper at City Hall.

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The analogies between football and politics keep coming. After ken Slapin’s pawn, Kevin Poruban, fumbled the ball in the big game the other night, the next offensive predictably started up. What ever happened to running campaigns on actual issues instead of legal hoop jumping, er, I switched analogies there. Back to football. The new ball carrier, James Fulton, is an actual alawyer, so maybe he w on’t screw up the gameplan. He said to the Hour:

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Transparent government, always a near and dear topic in turfworld, is being discussed at a League of Woman Voters hosted forum called:

SHINE A LIGHT ON OPEN GOVERNMENT: THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT MADE EASY.

The guest speaker is Tom Hennick from the Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission.

They are even luring people with refreshments. From the press release:

OCTOBER 11th 2007 at 7:00PM
City Hall 3rd Floor Council Chambers

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

PROGRAM
7:00 Refreshments and Handout Materials
7:30 Speaker
8:00 Role Play
8:30 Q & A

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