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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to the show, Anthony Campuzano. A lot of
different guys reaching out on behalf of you.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yeah, they've been doing a good job.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
This is the rock and the hard place I find
myself between two and before we get into your platform,
I want to discuss your platform. Give you an opportunity
to put that out there. But you know, I've never
seen in all my years of covering he saving may
All races and may all races in general. This one's
gotten pretty ugly, I got to say. And I know
(00:28):
so many people, you know, from the few years I
went to the high school. I know so many people.
I've got supporters of the incumbent. I got a lot
of supporters of yours coming at me. Try you try
to make everyone happy. It seems impossible to do is
as far as this race is concerned. You know, I
would want you to know that when I had the
mayor on and I only had one simple question for him,
(00:50):
and it was just get debated the guy before.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Why not debate him again?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
He gave such an impassioned sort of you know, and
I don't even think he was it's not you because
he's like, you know, they're putting out these pictures that
they're making fun of my fiance and my children put
it in my address, and it's like, well, I could
see how that would take you off. I can can
see that. I can see how.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
The but that's not even you doing that stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah, and I don't think they really went after. I
think what he was referring to going after his fiance,
that wasn't Oh the person was going after when I
did go back and look at.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
That, but it's not even you.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, that's yeah, And I can't ConTroll.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
That at that time. That's not that's not you.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
That's people supporting you doing silly stuff on social media.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yes, I just like this whole fine thing. I mean,
it's not the mayor doing it.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
True enough, true enough, and let people know what that
is too, myself included. And I don't know if you're
on a cell phone or if you can just get
to a better you're just cutting out just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
All right, that's rights probably.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I don't know if we're on the speaker too. I
just want to make sure everybody's uple the area. Yet
it seems a little bit better now go.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So last week one of my campaign signs was vandalized
with a vulgar message written on it, and it was
targeting one of my members of my family. I don't
care about the sign, and I understand politics and get heated,
but they should get heated over the issues in town,
not attacking one of my family members just to get
at me. And obviously the mayor I don't think is
(02:29):
responsible directly for this, but it highlights a culture that's
been created under the current administration, where it's a culture
of intimidation. Instead of allowing for open discussion, this administration
discourages it. Yeah, they keep residence in the dark. Those
who ask questions or raised concerns are treated like enemies.
People are tired of the negativity and the silence from leadership
(02:52):
and just the lack of direction.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
You know, I don't want to put you on the spot.
You chose your words very carefully there.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
You said, you know, there was some vandalism about a
member of my family.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Your wife, wasn't it, Yes, like fiance? Yeah, I mean
that's you know.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I hate that this race has gotten that ugly, and
it does show that people have drawn, have taken sides,
and are It's really a town divided right now. East
Taven is a town divided right now, I'm seeing that
up close and personal, and I'd love to help bridge
that divide in any way that I can, because that's
(03:30):
an ugly stuff, you know, and it's not you and
it's not him, but it's a town divided.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, I would rather have everything focused on the issues
in town. There's a lot of issues to talk about.
And I was hoping back to do that this whole campaign,
to be able to give residents of boys and have
the mayor, you know, say what he's going to do
for the future versus what I plan on doing, and
he chose not to go that route, and things started
(04:01):
getting ugly back and forth.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Now I noticed on it was one of your pages
or your page or one of your you know, many supporters.
There was a little clip a loop of him saying
when he was on my show and saying, he has
no platform, So I want to give you the opportunity
because you know, it's kind of my bad. I had
(04:23):
you on and all I talked about is why won't
you do a debate? Then I had Joe Carfour on
and I said, you know, Joe, why won't you do
the debate? Let's get to that platform. Let's prove them
wrong and spell out what that platform is.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah, So the mayor went on saying, I don't have
a platform, but I'm the only candidate that has this platform,
and I've had it on my website for the past
three or four months. The mayor his platform is spending money.
He was given eight point four million dollars in COVID
releef funds and taxes still went up and services were cut.
Now he's going around bragging about a nine million dollars
(04:59):
rainy day fund, but he's not telling residents that he's
already taking five million of that to avoid raising taxes
this year because it's an election year. So now that
the money tree is gone, residents are facing a large
tax incriest next year and there's no real plan for
the future. I think probably because here's a plan on
being here to deal with the fallout. So East Staten
(05:21):
residents are going to be left sold in the bag.
So as Mayor of being responsible long term financial planning account,
Hall conduct line by line review on the budget to
eliminate waste, prioritize core services and make sure residents get
the value of every tax dollar spent. And we need
(05:41):
to push for economic development that fits our character, our
small businesses, family owned operations, and balanced development with quality
of life, so we can help redevelop areas and increase
our grand list without burdening taxpayers. So I wanted to
(06:03):
give this. I wanted this whole campaign, this selection to
be about giving the Residence of Voice back and changing
the culture town hall. And another big issue that we
haven't been able to talk about is our schools. So
there's a lot of issues talk about, but I think
the schools are one of the biggest issue because they're
(06:23):
falling behind. They've been in I constant decline. Eighty percent
of our students aren't proficient in math, path aren't proficient
in reading and writing. And the first step is admitting
there is a problem. This administration refuses to even acknowledge it,
and I'm fed up with the excuses. You have current
Board of Ed members that are patting themselves on the
(06:43):
back pretending everything's fine, but it's not. The world is
changing fast and our youth needs to be prepared for it.
Every given graduate to have the tool, skills and confidence
to carve out their own career, their own career path
instead of a cookie carter path like going to college
or do an X y Z. Give them the tools
(07:07):
in the skills to be able to choose what they
want to do. So at Mayor, I'll create a blue
Ribben committee from day one, made up of retired teachers, parents,
professionals like tradesmen, accountants, people in manufacturing, you know, people
who care to come up with real practical solutions that
can help our students succeed.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Do you do you have some of those retired teachers,
some of their names, and I just want to know
if I recognize Andy. You know, one thing you and
I have in common is I did two years at
Notre Dame. I think you did the full four. Yeah,
but then I finished up at east Haven High School
my last two years of high school or at east
Haven High School. And I don't want to get in
(07:51):
any trouble with anybody because there were a lot of
great teachers there, but it was it wasn't the greatest
recipe for me going from Notre Dame, you know, and
the way Notre Dame was in the eighties, which was
a great experience. I really wish I didn't transfer. I
had a blast at east Haven, but it was culture shock,
you know. And I fell right through some pretty sizable
(08:13):
cracks because you can't go from a private school to
a public school all that freedom you suddenly have. Now,
Never mind these girls in Jordash jeans sitting right next
to you and snapping on their gum. I didn't the
education I started with in high school. The education I
was getting was not the education I got in the end.
(08:36):
And I'm going back to the eighties when I say that,
But like I said, there were a lot of teachers
at East Haven High School at the time that I
adored and were wonderful. I'm wondering if I might recognize
any names when you talk about a blue ribbon, who
are what are some of the names? Do any come
to mind right off the bat?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Do I have current teachers right now?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Okay, I can their name? Oh right, so maybe going
I even know?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah, that's the thing, like, we need the town to
recognize there's a serious problem, not just kicking the can
down the road, pretending everything's fine and never coming up
with real solutions. Every couple of years they wrote on
policy changes back and forth, but they're not looking at
(09:20):
the core problem. The whole system is a problem and
need to start from the ground up and rebuild our
school system so we have kids that can leave high
school ready for the real world. We need real world skills.
They need to be able to balance a checkbook if
they want to leave high school and go start their
own business. I want to make sure they have the
tools to be able to do that without having to
(09:42):
go to college.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
And again we're on with Anthony Campizana right now, candidate
for mayor of East Tavin And what is all the
noise I'm hearing about the bulk trash scan? What is
the trash pickup scandal? Because I know from town to
town it is greatly different, but there does seem to
be you know, in my town, you know, you get
like five passes here. I'm right next door. I'm in Branford,
(10:09):
So it's different town to town. But I've been hearing
a lot of complaints about what's going on. And he
saved in the last couple of years. As far as
trash pickup is concerned, Is that a viable question?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Is that an issue? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
No, absolutely huge issue.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
So okay, good.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Branford, they have a transfer station that's opened all week long.
Es in residents you'll get a pass for a dollar
or maybe even free.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Free.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, I got them for free. You get a minimum
of I think it's five but per year for free.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
So our dumps only open two days a week. And now,
for the past couple of decades we had both pickup weekly,
both trash pickups. So if you want to throw out anything,
a couch, so fuch, here's whatever, you could throw it
out every week and the garbage would take it with
the regular garbage.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I'd love that, though, throw it out. Yeah, I'd love
that though too. I don't have that.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I like, like you said, I've got a place I
can go to, but and assess the dates, me get
buddy with.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Yeah, you're off to put Yeah, I would.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Have liked the ball both pick It can look ugly,
but not if the machine's running, you know, well oiled
and run.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Ain't get snapped up every week. I would have liked that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
So, I mean we've had it for decades and for
the past couple of years the mayor has been talking
about moving to a different system, changing where the garbage
goes to save a little money. So he wanted to
say five hundred thousand dollars, which comes to forty one
dollars per house per year. That's what it breaks down to.
Let's send a dollar a week both trash pickup costs,
(11:37):
and he took it away so the down could save money,
which is great, but it makes him look good. But
now the residents are stuck paying fifty dollars per trip
if you take a pickup truck load to the dump,
So one trip to dump costs more than what it
costs all year for you to go as your taxes.
So he took it away. And then a couple of
(11:59):
weeks before where I got taken away, he went in
front of town council and divide and misled town council saying, oh,
it's not him, his hands are tied. But he was
the one planning on taking away the whole time. He
was trying to blame the incinerator, saying the incinerator was
going to turn our trucks away. But this was his
plan all along, was to say five hundred thousand dollars
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from taking both trash pickaway and basically leaving the residents
to deal with the problem. And here's another problem. That
same meeting, there was only two things during that meeting.
It was to get rid of both trash pickup and
to increase blight fines to one hundred dollars a day.
So it's like, okay, let's take away trash pickup, and
(12:43):
now that you have nowhere to bring your trash anymore,
you're gonna have to leave it in your you know,
backyard wherever until you can get it there if you
don't have a pickup truck. But we're gonna hit you
with one hundred dollars per day fine like in Trapman.
And it's just how they operate to they don't think
about the residence.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Yeah, do you.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Think that five hundred thousand dollars was earmarked for something else?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
To you? Is there a proof that it is.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I don't think. I think he just did it to
help balance this year so you wouldn't have to raise
taxes during an election year.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Okay, so it helps you, say.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Five hundred dollars in his budget. But he's been talking
about it for a couple of years. But it's minus
school compared to what residents were getting out of it,
and there's no real solution to solve it except for
bring it to the dump place a week if you
can get there during those times when the dumps open.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And then another one that I hear a lot from, uh,
the people who reach out to me from East Tavan
is about a gas rate increase yep.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
So that was reported on just about a year ago
from I think the Kinnectic Examiner investigative report. So they
found out that a lobbyist on behalf of the gas
company wrote the mayor a letter that he copy and
pasted and put it on his letterhead the sense of
(14:18):
Pura to recommend increasing our gas prices for gas utilities.
So my whole thing is, why would a mayor do that?
So Connecticut already pays some of the highest utility prices
in the country, and you're a mayor of a working
class town, twenty nine thousand people in this town that
(14:38):
are already struggling, and you're gonna, out of the blue,
just copy and paste a letter from a lobbyist to
recommend increasing gas rates on your residence.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Some it's just not right, and it's not leadership that
the town needs. We need somebody who's gonna fight for
the residents, not work against them.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
And I'm seeing it right here. Somebody just sent to
me from CT Examiner East Haven East Hartford letters supporting
gas rate hikes were drafted by company, so it sure
was covered in well what an east Haven and East Hartford.
What a thing to have in common there? Again, I
can only reiterate, I can only stress how taken aback
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I am by the how Hatfield and McCoy it's gotten
in East Haven right now. I hope that this division
comes to an end as far as the residence there.
Like I said, my last two years of high school
that met some of the best families.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
I had a great time, but it was a culture
shock to go from Notre Dame to East Haven High School.
But I wouldn't trade it for the world. Some great
families who are still there, but very divided. This is
a contentious race. Anthony Campusano, thanks for coming back on
candidate for mayor of v Stave. You got incumbent joke
Carfoura two. Uh, you guys got quite a choice. Just
(16:05):
voter turnout be there from Mamoglan to High Rich Oh
my days in high Ridge to Fox and everybody.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Make sure you turn out to vote.
Welcome back to the show, Anthony Campuzano. A lot of
different guys reaching out on behalf of you.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yeah, they've been doing a good job.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
This is the rock and the hard place I find
myself between two and before we get into your platform,
I want to discuss your platform. Give you an opportunity
to put that out there. But you know, I've never
seen in all my years of covering he saving may
All races and may all races in general. This one's
gotten pretty ugly, I got to say. And I know
(00:28):
so many people, you know, from the few years I
went to the high school. I know so many people.
I've got supporters of the incumbent. I got a lot
of supporters of yours coming at me. Try you try
to make everyone happy. It seems impossible to do is
as far as this race is concerned. You know, I
would want you to know that when I had the
mayor on and I only had one simple question for him,
(00:50):
and it was just get debated the guy before.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Why not debate him again?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
He gave such an impassioned sort of you know, and
I don't even think he was it's not you because
he's like, you know, they're putting out these pictures that
they're making fun of my fiance and my children put
it in my address, and it's like, well, I could
see how that would take you off. I can can
see that. I can see how.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
The but that's not even you doing that stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah, and I don't think they really went after. I
think what he was referring to going after his fiance,
that wasn't Oh the person was going after when I
did go back and look at.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
That, but it's not even you.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, that's yeah, And I can't ConTroll.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
That at that time. That's not that's not you.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
That's people supporting you doing silly stuff on social media.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yes, I just like this whole fine thing. I mean,
it's not the mayor doing it.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
True enough, true enough, and let people know what that
is too, myself included. And I don't know if you're
on a cell phone or if you can just get
to a better you're just cutting out just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
All right, that's rights probably.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I don't know if we're on the speaker too. I
just want to make sure everybody's uple the area. Yet
it seems a little bit better now go.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So last week one of my campaign signs was vandalized
with a vulgar message written on it, and it was
targeting one of my members of my family. I don't
care about the sign, and I understand politics and get heated,
but they should get heated over the issues in town,
not attacking one of my family members just to get
at me. And obviously the mayor I don't think is
(02:29):
responsible directly for this, but it highlights a culture that's
been created under the current administration, where it's a culture
of intimidation. Instead of allowing for open discussion, this administration
discourages it. Yeah, they keep residence in the dark. Those
who ask questions or raised concerns are treated like enemies.
People are tired of the negativity and the silence from leadership
(02:52):
and just the lack of direction.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
You know, I don't want to put you on the spot.
You chose your words very carefully there.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
You said, you know, there was some vandalism about a
member of my family.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Your wife, wasn't it, Yes, like fiance? Yeah, I mean
that's you know.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I hate that this race has gotten that ugly, and
it does show that people have drawn, have taken sides,
and are It's really a town divided right now. East
Taven is a town divided right now, I'm seeing that
up close and personal, and I'd love to help bridge
that divide in any way that I can, because that's
(03:30):
an ugly stuff, you know, and it's not you and
it's not him, but it's a town divided.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, I would rather have everything focused on the issues
in town. There's a lot of issues to talk about.
And I was hoping back to do that this whole campaign,
to be able to give residents of boys and have
the mayor, you know, say what he's going to do
for the future versus what I plan on doing, and
he chose not to go that route, and things started
(04:01):
getting ugly back and forth.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Now I noticed on it was one of your pages
or your page or one of your you know, many supporters.
There was a little clip a loop of him saying
when he was on my show and saying, he has
no platform, So I want to give you the opportunity
because you know, it's kind of my bad. I had
(04:23):
you on and all I talked about is why won't
you do a debate? Then I had Joe Carfour on
and I said, you know, Joe, why won't you do
the debate? Let's get to that platform. Let's prove them
wrong and spell out what that platform is.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah, So the mayor went on saying, I don't have
a platform, but I'm the only candidate that has this platform,
and I've had it on my website for the past
three or four months. The mayor his platform is spending money.
He was given eight point four million dollars in COVID
releef funds and taxes still went up and services were cut.
Now he's going around bragging about a nine million dollars
(04:59):
rainy day fund, but he's not telling residents that he's
already taking five million of that to avoid raising taxes
this year because it's an election year. So now that
the money tree is gone, residents are facing a large
tax incriest next year and there's no real plan for
the future. I think probably because here's a plan on
being here to deal with the fallout. So East Staten
(05:21):
residents are going to be left sold in the bag.
So as Mayor of being responsible long term financial planning account,
Hall conduct line by line review on the budget to
eliminate waste, prioritize core services and make sure residents get
the value of every tax dollar spent. And we need
(05:41):
to push for economic development that fits our character, our
small businesses, family owned operations, and balanced development with quality
of life, so we can help redevelop areas and increase
our grand list without burdening taxpayers. So I wanted to
(06:03):
give this. I wanted this whole campaign, this selection to
be about giving the Residence of Voice back and changing
the culture town hall. And another big issue that we
haven't been able to talk about is our schools. So
there's a lot of issues talk about, but I think
the schools are one of the biggest issue because they're
(06:23):
falling behind. They've been in I constant decline. Eighty percent
of our students aren't proficient in math, path aren't proficient
in reading and writing. And the first step is admitting
there is a problem. This administration refuses to even acknowledge it,
and I'm fed up with the excuses. You have current
Board of Ed members that are patting themselves on the
(06:43):
back pretending everything's fine, but it's not. The world is
changing fast and our youth needs to be prepared for it.
Every given graduate to have the tool, skills and confidence
to carve out their own career, their own career path
instead of a cookie carter path like going to college
or do an X y Z. Give them the tools
(07:07):
in the skills to be able to choose what they
want to do. So at Mayor, I'll create a blue
Ribben committee from day one, made up of retired teachers, parents,
professionals like tradesmen, accountants, people in manufacturing, you know, people
who care to come up with real practical solutions that
can help our students succeed.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Do you do you have some of those retired teachers,
some of their names, and I just want to know
if I recognize Andy. You know, one thing you and
I have in common is I did two years at
Notre Dame. I think you did the full four. Yeah,
but then I finished up at east Haven High School
my last two years of high school or at east
Haven High School. And I don't want to get in
(07:51):
any trouble with anybody because there were a lot of
great teachers there, but it was it wasn't the greatest
recipe for me going from Notre Dame, you know, and
the way Notre Dame was in the eighties, which was
a great experience. I really wish I didn't transfer. I
had a blast at east Haven, but it was culture shock,
you know. And I fell right through some pretty sizable
(08:13):
cracks because you can't go from a private school to
a public school all that freedom you suddenly have. Now,
Never mind these girls in Jordash jeans sitting right next
to you and snapping on their gum. I didn't the
education I started with in high school. The education I
was getting was not the education I got in the end.
(08:36):
And I'm going back to the eighties when I say that,
But like I said, there were a lot of teachers
at East Haven High School at the time that I
adored and were wonderful. I'm wondering if I might recognize
any names when you talk about a blue ribbon, who
are what are some of the names? Do any come
to mind right off the bat?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Do I have current teachers right now?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Okay, I can their name? Oh right, so maybe going
I even know?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah, that's the thing, like, we need the town to
recognize there's a serious problem, not just kicking the can
down the road, pretending everything's fine and never coming up
with real solutions. Every couple of years they wrote on
policy changes back and forth, but they're not looking at
(09:20):
the core problem. The whole system is a problem and
need to start from the ground up and rebuild our
school system so we have kids that can leave high
school ready for the real world. We need real world skills.
They need to be able to balance a checkbook if
they want to leave high school and go start their
own business. I want to make sure they have the
tools to be able to do that without having to
(09:42):
go to college.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
And again we're on with Anthony Campizana right now, candidate
for mayor of East Tavin And what is all the
noise I'm hearing about the bulk trash scan? What is
the trash pickup scandal? Because I know from town to
town it is greatly different, but there does seem to
be you know, in my town, you know, you get
like five passes here. I'm right next door. I'm in Branford,
(10:09):
So it's different town to town. But I've been hearing
a lot of complaints about what's going on. And he
saved in the last couple of years. As far as
trash pickup is concerned, Is that a viable question?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Is that an issue? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
No, absolutely huge issue.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
So okay, good.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Branford, they have a transfer station that's opened all week long.
Es in residents you'll get a pass for a dollar
or maybe even free.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Free.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, I got them for free. You get a minimum
of I think it's five but per year for free.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
So our dumps only open two days a week. And now,
for the past couple of decades we had both pickup weekly,
both trash pickups. So if you want to throw out anything,
a couch, so fuch, here's whatever, you could throw it
out every week and the garbage would take it with
the regular garbage.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I'd love that, though, throw it out. Yeah, I'd love
that though too. I don't have that.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I like, like you said, I've got a place I
can go to, but and assess the dates, me get
buddy with.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Yeah, you're off to put Yeah, I would.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Have liked the ball both pick It can look ugly,
but not if the machine's running, you know, well oiled
and run.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Ain't get snapped up every week. I would have liked that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
So, I mean we've had it for decades and for
the past couple of years the mayor has been talking
about moving to a different system, changing where the garbage
goes to save a little money. So he wanted to
say five hundred thousand dollars, which comes to forty one
dollars per house per year. That's what it breaks down to.
Let's send a dollar a week both trash pickup costs,
(11:37):
and he took it away so the down could save money,
which is great, but it makes him look good. But
now the residents are stuck paying fifty dollars per trip
if you take a pickup truck load to the dump,
So one trip to dump costs more than what it
costs all year for you to go as your taxes.
So he took it away. And then a couple of
(11:59):
weeks before where I got taken away, he went in
front of town council and divide and misled town council saying, oh,
it's not him, his hands are tied. But he was
the one planning on taking away the whole time. He
was trying to blame the incinerator, saying the incinerator was
going to turn our trucks away. But this was his
plan all along, was to say five hundred thousand dollars
(12:21):
from taking both trash pickaway and basically leaving the residents
to deal with the problem. And here's another problem. That
same meeting, there was only two things during that meeting.
It was to get rid of both trash pickup and
to increase blight fines to one hundred dollars a day.
So it's like, okay, let's take away trash pickup, and
(12:43):
now that you have nowhere to bring your trash anymore,
you're gonna have to leave it in your you know,
backyard wherever until you can get it there if you
don't have a pickup truck. But we're gonna hit you
with one hundred dollars per day fine like in Trapman.
And it's just how they operate to they don't think
about the residence.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Yeah, do you.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Think that five hundred thousand dollars was earmarked for something else?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
To you? Is there a proof that it is.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I don't think. I think he just did it to
help balance this year so you wouldn't have to raise
taxes during an election year.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Okay, so it helps you, say.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Five hundred dollars in his budget. But he's been talking
about it for a couple of years. But it's minus
school compared to what residents were getting out of it,
and there's no real solution to solve it except for
bring it to the dump place a week if you
can get there during those times when the dumps open.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And then another one that I hear a lot from, uh,
the people who reach out to me from East Tavan
is about a gas rate increase yep.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
So that was reported on just about a year ago
from I think the Kinnectic Examiner investigative report. So they
found out that a lobbyist on behalf of the gas
company wrote the mayor a letter that he copy and
pasted and put it on his letterhead the sense of
(14:18):
Pura to recommend increasing our gas prices for gas utilities.
So my whole thing is, why would a mayor do that?
So Connecticut already pays some of the highest utility prices
in the country, and you're a mayor of a working
class town, twenty nine thousand people in this town that
(14:38):
are already struggling, and you're gonna, out of the blue,
just copy and paste a letter from a lobbyist to
recommend increasing gas rates on your residence.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Some it's just not right, and it's not leadership that
the town needs. We need somebody who's gonna fight for
the residents, not work against them.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
And I'm seeing it right here. Somebody just sent to
me from CT Examiner East Haven East Hartford letters supporting
gas rate hikes were drafted by company, so it sure
was covered in well what an east Haven and East Hartford.
What a thing to have in common there? Again, I
can only reiterate, I can only stress how taken aback
(15:26):
I am by the how Hatfield and McCoy it's gotten
in East Haven right now. I hope that this division
comes to an end as far as the residence there.
Like I said, my last two years of high school
that met some of the best families.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
I had a great time, but it was a culture
shock to go from Notre Dame to East Haven High School.
But I wouldn't trade it for the world. Some great
families who are still there, but very divided. This is
a contentious race. Anthony Campusano, thanks for coming back on
candidate for mayor of v Stave. You got incumbent joke
Carfoura two. Uh, you guys got quite a choice. Just
(16:05):
voter turnout be there from Mamoglan to High Rich Oh
my days in high Ridge to Fox and everybody.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Make sure you turn out to vote.
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