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HARTFORD, Conn. – President Barack Obama's visit to Westport Monday has earned the condemnation of Norwalk State Rep. Larry Cafero.
The House Republican Leader released a statement ripping Obama and Gov. Dannel Malloy for "shutting down Sherwood Isle State Park in Westport to ferry the president to fundraising events that will earn [Obama] millions in donations."
"It is the arrogance of power and crass partisanship to shut down Sherwood Isle at the height of the summer vacation season and dislodge all these families,'' Cafero said in the statement. "It is outrageous that the Democrats turn Sherwood Isle into a personal heliport for the president so that he can be ferried back and forth to hobnob with millionaires and billionaires for the day.''
The President was scheduled to attend a $35,800 per head fundraiser at a Westport mansion and another less pricey event in Stamford. Both were expected to raise millions for the Obama campaign. There is no "official visit'' associated with the trip, Cafero said.
Cafero said that if Republicans acted the same manner the media outrage would have sparked protests. "Where is Occupy Wall Street when you need them?'' Cafero asked.
"Democratic high-rolling donation bundlers dine in luxury with the President, and people whose only relief are state parks are left to bake in the summer heat with no relief," Cafero said in the statement.
Malloy's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection agency is responsible for overseeing state parks. DEEP put out a press release Friday afternoon noting the closure due to a "special event'' but offered no other details, according to Cafero.
"Obviously the administration was worried about how this event would play in the public's mind and did not want to broadcast it because they know how badly the public is being treated,'' Cafero said in the statement.
Comments (13)
Larry Cafero is the last person to talk about arrogance, during Bob Genuario's campaign, I remember Bob going house to house, talking to people about abolishing the Connecticut State Income Tax, this was Bob's forum, as promoted by Larry, I know this, I campaigned for Bob at the time, I was never so disappointed in a candidate, and it was distressing to find that Larry was 'assuming" the mantle after Bob went onto Budget Director for Rell.
Jodi Rell, while a nice person was ill equipped to be governor of Connecticut, of course, Connecticut hadn't had a scandal like Rowland, since the days of the Nutmeg Scandal, we've been very fortunate to have a moderately unblemished political history.
But Larry? I find his words disengenous; he's done virtually nothing for Norwalk in my view, and I believe his aspirations are higher, remember Rowland was one of the "rock stars" of the GOP before the fall, same as Christie Todd Whitman of Jersey, of course, she lowered state taxes, but allowed for raised property taxes, that drove a lot of people out of Jersey, Rowland basically did the same thing in Connecticut.
Do not believe these people, unfortunately for Connecticut, when the democrats get into office, they are faced with hard decisions, I don't agree with all of Malloy's policies, but I can rest assured, that the draconian budget measures that Malloy took are far better than "empty promises" from people of the ilk of Genuario and Cafero.
What I find comical is the republicans all seen to have convenient Alzheimer's and forget we are in the mess we are in due to the 8 years of the village idiot Bush.
Oh Larry has spoken
take those two State passes I bought for the Island and all other state parks and put me down for my two spaces today at Sherwood.If yo were a true Statesmen you would of told us all a good deal was to buy the sticker at the start of the year I have 67 and 68 Larrry.
Those workers on Washingtone st and Linda;s is parking free enjoying no parking in front of her storefront for visibility while Norwalk loses parking money,yes the State can't afford to lose money just Norwalk.Parking next to Sono Seafood is free.
Lets see Norwalk will hear shortly how Norwalk Republicans have lied to its taxpayers about problems with city carting this is days from print folks.
Yes the island is closed down yet when we had CLMP set up a city during that big storm under a republican Gov the price tag was zero,,so yes we all lose money no matter what the party is don't we Larry.
Larry hasn't had too much to say about much lately suppose if your boat is sinking might as well shoot a couple of flares to be noticed,I woud agree with Larry if this was Bush but it isn't.
Odd till now didn't know larry was still working in the State house.
Buy a season pass from the St of Ct gets you in all state parks for nothing all season long,something Larry forgot to mention,did he send out the press release from the Norwalk Inn?
The most illuminating memory I have is Art Scallabia, "complainng" a Norwalk Hour letter about the "greens fees" at Oakhills, how "out of touch" can you get? I fully expected a letter citing that the quality of the "sausage and peppers" at the restuarant there, went downhill, this is how out of touch these people are.
Linda McMahon is a carpetbagger in my view, creating 500 jobs by doping and duping. is not a stellar record for a campaign. She's not the right person to send to the US Senate; she's weak and won't be able to resist the koolaid in Washington, I think we need a real representative, and Shays? many years ago, when a young man was gunned down in South Norwalk, I contacted both Lieberman and Shays about the expiration of the assault weapons ban; Lieberman's office never replied, however, I received a lovely, well written, excuse ridden, letter from Shays extolling the virtues of the second amendment, and how allowing for the assault weapons ban to expire was in "keeping with the Constitutional rights" of Americans, I walked away from that letter with the message "there's nothing I can do, I do not have the gravitas to dissaude this". If I were in the Congress at the time, I would have gotten the permission to show the morgue photos of every person gunned down by a high powered weapon in Norwalk, and then dared those miscreants in Washington to send a letter to the parents, husbands, wives, sisters and brothers of those gunned "explaining" why assault weapons are "good for Americans". Utter stupidity, well at least Shays was honest, he couldn't do anything about it, and said so, Linda McMahon? she's promising the sun, moon and the stars, you'll be lucky to get a glimpse if this person is voted into office.
I guess Cafero has forgotten about all the Republicans that have done the same thing
Unfortunately, this isn't the first time this has been done. It was done for Clinton also. At least it's better than completely shutting down I-95, which they will do for a short period of time. It's gonna be a nightmare for commuters who get off at Green's Farms.
I guess you forgot about the 4 times it was done for Bush Jr and twice for Bush Sr..Not very smart are you trolll
You are just one nasty piece of business, Tim.
Did it occur to you that I may not have been in town when that happened?
No what occurred to me is that republicans all seem to have convenient Alzheimer's
"Not very smart are you"
It's good that you pointed out that this happened for W and Bush Sr. as well, but was it really necessary to end your comment with a personal insult?
If you stop slinging personal insults at people just because you think they might have a different political viewpoint from yours, you'll find that people take you a little more seriously.
lwitherspoon,
Ignore the troll. Every time he mocks me or blows off a legitimate piece of information just proves to everyone that he is a small, bitter and angry person.
It also helps to reinforce why I won't be voting for Obama or whoever runs for Mayor on the Democratic platform. Although he claims to have a degree in Criminal Justice, hearing him run the police down day after day piles up the evidence that he doesn't.
He clearly has little or no understanding the city or State government since he consistently blames everything on Moccia.
And he despises people.
Pitiful, isn't it?
Typical Pitiful republican troll
You must have me confused with someone who cares about your opinion..