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Norwalk: Briggs and Some Democrats Gets Union Endorsement


by turfgrrl


October 17th, 2007 · 14 Comments

The Hour reports that Walter Briggs earned the endorsement of Council 4 AFSCME. Council 4 is the largest AFL-CIO union in Connecticut. Along with Briggs, Democrats Fred A. Bondi, Anna Duleep, Michael K. Geake, William M. Krummel, Laurel Lindstrom, Kevin M. Poruban and Douglas W. Sutton earned endorsements.

Dennis O’Neil, political director for Council 4, said Democratic and Republican town chairmen statewide were mailed a cover letter and questionnaire for them to forward to their candidates. Interviews followed, he said.

The questionnaire asked candidates, among other things, if they support collective-bargaining rights for public employees, where they stand on privatization of municipal and Board of Education services, if they support school vouchers, and whether they back project-labor agreements for municipal projects.

“(Council 4) makes a recommendation whether they should be endorsed, based upon the questionnaire and interview (responses),” O’Neil said.

Republican Mayor Richard A. Moccia on Monday received the endorsement of The Fairfield County Labor Council. Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, the council represents nearly 40 private and public sector local labor unions throughout the county, according to a press statement announcing the endorsement.

source: The Hour, Briggs, Dems, pick up Council 4 endorsement, By ROBERT KOCH, October 17, 2007

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14 Responses so far ↓ “Norwalk: Briggs and Some Democrats Gets Union Endorsement”



  • 1 anonymous // Oct 17, 2007 at 9:30 am

    There was actually a decent editorial in the Hour today regarding dredging of the harbor. I guess it won’t get posted here because of the pro-Republican slant - too many guilty Republican associated with the lack of action. Rell cutting funding and appointing a looney environmentalist to the DEP, Bush cutting funding for it, and Moccia for not doing anything about it.

  • 2 turfgrrl // Oct 17, 2007 at 10:35 am

    anonymous #1: Feel free to comment/post on the dredging yourself. To dredge or not to dredge is not my type of question, but I’ll open up a thread for it.

  • 3 Mr Greenpeace // Oct 17, 2007 at 10:41 am

    #1

    Did anyone read the article by Tim Stelloh from the Advocate on the sediment that comes out of the river and U.S. Sen Charles Schumer calling for teh EPA to ensure Norwalk does the right thing?

    Takes someone outside the city, outside the state to ensure the right thing gets done with disposal,,yet the only thing the city and state have to say is the Army Corps of engineers say,,well they have been wrong before and in the eye of the controversy is polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons is whats in the harbor.

    http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/tfacts69.html

    another lesson if anyone wants to know whats in the sediment,,and to think we swim in the area of it

    by the way the blog is very fair, never has it steered away from issues that hurt republicans

  • 4 AnonymousDem // Oct 17, 2007 at 10:53 am

    I’m a Democrat who knows that the endorsement from Council 4 means nothing. They do no work, produce no workers, nothing! It is just Peter Thor pretending that he has power. Heh, endorsing folks like Poruban who is not only dumb but also voted against union contracts this term? He fits the profile of Council 4 actually.

    Maybe, MAYBE they’ll give money to Walter but I’d rather have the endorsement of a union that works hard for a candidate that they believe in and applies their money to smart candidates who support the workers.

  • 5 anonymous // Oct 17, 2007 at 11:01 am

    As a union family member this is really troubling. Doug Sutton, Bill Krummell and Kevin Poruban voted against afscme contracts this year. Way to go council 4. How can you endorse candidates that voted against our municipal contracts ? It just shows how useless and irrelevant their endorsement is.

  • 6 anonymous // Oct 17, 2007 at 11:42 am

    Are there any union members on the council now?
    Did council 4 endorse them?

  • 7 Anonymous // Oct 17, 2007 at 11:50 am

    I believe Rick McQuaid is in the teachers union but he didn’t get an endorcement. He also voted for the union contracts so it just goes to show you who has who’s head up who’s butt!

  • 8 Speak Up! // Oct 17, 2007 at 11:54 am

    Council 4- what a joke? Peter Thor could get council 4 to endorse a hand puppet! Everybody knows this is a rubber stamp process.

    The Norwalk Democrats are leaderless- who can lead them out of the wilderness? Please, tell me there is someone on Van Zant street- that could turn this election year around.

  • 9 MGeake // Oct 17, 2007 at 12:03 pm

    I’m not on the Common Council yet, but for the record, I’m a member of Local 37083 of the Communications Workers of America (aka The Washington Technical Alliance).

  • 10 Anonymous // Oct 17, 2007 at 12:17 pm

    Mr. Geake, I feel sorry for you being aligned with the dems in Norwalk

  • 11 mattw // Oct 17, 2007 at 6:59 pm

    Kevin and Doug are both union members as well. Fred might be — he was a business agent with a musician’s union, so he might have kept up his membership.

  • 12 Anonymous // Oct 17, 2007 at 7:45 pm

    The dismal assessment of the Republican president and the Democratic-controlled Congress follows another month of inconclusive political battles over a future path in Iraq and the recent Bush veto of an expansion of the program providing insurance for poor children.

    The bleak mood could present problems for both parties heading into the November 2008 election campaign, Zogby said.

    taken from yahoo

    suppose it could hurt at local levels also

  • 13 anonymous // Oct 17, 2007 at 7:58 pm

    Mattw, if they are union members, can you enlighten me as to why they voted against negotiated contracts ?

  • 14 Kevin is useless // Oct 18, 2007 at 8:25 am

    Union member or not…

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