Well honey bunch, here we are on Halloween. Boooo!!! In the spirit of things, the Mystick Maidens of the Marsh are having a little costume party to celebrate. Effen yew deign to make it this year, Royal High Mystick Maiden Tina Peckingham has asked that yew bring jellybeans.
Tennyrate, things around here are less on dressing up and more on getting the vote out. As yew know this Tuesday is Election Day. That means that the seven-week campaign since the primary in September is all but over. The candidates will traverse their districts or the city, and need new soles on their Thom McAn’s. It’s the last weekend and the last chance they got to change minds and turn heads.
It’s been a perty good campaign, with none of the stuff we used to fill these missives with years ago. No signs torn down, no vandalism, no fisticuffs. That don’t mean that the warring parties don’t like each other, it jest means they’ve moved elsewhere.
Foist off, the suspecks that used to pull off said capers are either gone or moved away. Secondly, whilst a lot of the mischief was Democrat-Republican back then, it’s become more Democrat-Democrat. Despite what happens on Tuesday, there is one constant: the various segments of the Democratic Party in the berg will still hate each other.
That’s even more than what used to happen. Messers. Bill Roper, Harold Allen and Freddie Johnson disliked each other, but they held their noses and woiked together. These people today don’t. Sooo, it’ll be interesting to see how Tuesday shakes out.
We know that some Demmies had approached the Gregorio campaign about helping out, and they weren’t from the Rossi segment of the party as you might guess.
But there is another interesting development in this situation. Gregorio got the nod with some opposition within the GOP. How that translates into whom some of the “faithful” voter for is anyone’s guess.
All in all it should be an interesting vote.
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Jest a brief pat on the back for all of us. Recently, the boys and girls of the berg had one or t’other benefit for a city resident. Setch benefits, which are outings where tickets are sold, some food it given out, and the bulk of the money goes to the person or persons for whom the benefit is for, reaps in lotsa kopecks.
Well, a few weeks ago, there was setch a benefit, and from what Sammy Bluejay tells me there were hundreds of people at the event. Yew couldn’t move it was so packed. A buddy of our esteemed editor happened to go the benefit and had nothin’ by nice things to say.
“You people in West Haven really do support your own,” he said. He couldn’t believe the number of people who showed up and the fack that so many people cared. In today’s world what we used to take for granted is something that is no so common anymore.
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Sammy Bluejay, meanwhile, was perched around the berg, and says that people are surprised the Haven didn’t become a pernt of contention betwixt the two mayoral candidates well before this. Gregorio is chargin’ the mayor ain’t doing enuff, and that there was a promise of funds from the state. Rossi is saying, she’s doing all she can, and that the funds in question were promised by the people before her in the previous administration.
That seems go answer a query or two that people had about the projeck. Honey chile, there was something more here than just a DOT review of traffic patterns. We were all told that once the traffic study had been done, and the DOT gave it’s OK, things would be movin’. Heck, there was a letter sent out to local businesses to that effeck. But nothin’ ever happened.
One thinks that there is substance to the idea that the former administration dangled state dollars in front of the developers, particularly after the person who was so gung-ho on the project, wen to he eternal reward and was no longer around to advocate for it.
As we’ve been saying, building malls is something that seems strange when there was a report jest t’other day that 20 percent of the current malls will close by 2022. Something was holdin’ up the works.
No one envies herroner or her successor, whether it be she or someone else. This is gonna be a mess before it gits figgered out. I think whilst they’re saying Christmas 2021, effen we git it in 2022, Cobina would be surprised.
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Whilst the recent rainstorms have taken down tons o’ leaves, and the gray leaden sky seems to be a daily occurrence. We are gettin’ toward the holiday season –which in some peoples’ minds seems to be Halloween. But there is already an uptick in donations to WHEAT, which should happen all year. Schools, organizations and others are pushing donations. In the last two weeks, we’ve had photos of two groups that have donated.
It’s a difficult thing that we think about these situations more around Thanksgiving and Christmas, but circling back to what we were saying before, WHEAT gits donations all year round, though more so in these next few weeks. Let’s hope that all the cans are collected and distributed, and in this new economy, those who desire work will get it and be able to keep their families safe. Until then, we support any and all WHEAT collections.
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In matters more mundane, the recent OK by the City Council of the Charter Revision Commish’s report ain’t the end of worries for those who worked so hard on it. The fack that the council kind o’ dragged its feet, and that some in the leadership are mulling over ways to segment the proposal into several questions has the members worried.
Nelly Nuthatch said the decision by the council has not been a settling pernt for the commish. As things stand now, the city will have a vote in April. It is hoped that the day of the Presidential Preference Primary will be the date. However, there is some concern that setch a thing might not even be legal. Some are suggesting that law prohibits local ballots on this day. We shall see.
But even so, let’s say things do go forward on that date, the commish is worried there is too much time for naysayers to deep-six the proposals in the court of public opinion. Most people don’t pay attention and effen they do, it usually isn’t more than a headline or a lead paragraph. That means that a lotta damage can be done by those who don’t wanna see the status quo changed.
Granted, the status quo has been one of the reasons we are in this financial and political fix we’re in, but to many people, ti’s “Better the devil you know.” They would much rather keep things dysfunctional. Besides, the politicos they know the rules of the game, and don’t wann change.
The next few months will be very pivotal effen the city makes any great strides toward change, but there are already people and groups that are hell-bent on keeping things the way they are.
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With that bit o’ chatter, I’ll close this time till next, mitt luff und kizzez,