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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jamika Jeffries is back in with us today, one of them.
I mean, there's still a lot of people in the
running here, just on the Democrat side alone.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Well, Vinny, I mean again, you say there's a lot
of bodies there, but when you want to talk about
the quality of the individuals and no disrespect to any
of them. Again, I'm sure they're very nice people internally
and have possibly the right intentions. But this is why
we're in the mess we're in now, is because we're
putting in friends and family instead of qualified people who
(00:32):
can actually do the job to turn this town around.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Yeah, there are people who run out of love for
the town that they're living in because they want to
see changed, and there are others put in place because
there's a bigger picture and they're playing a role in
that bigger picture. That's what it feels like is playing
out here. I've seen it before. I've seen it before
in other times. I've seen it before in Hampden too.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Oh yeah, And I had a woman say to me
very sincerely, she said to Mika, if you don't get
into office, she said, I'm moving.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I'm moving because it's going to be more of the
same again.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I'm the only one out of all those candidates who
is not capital, not a politician.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I'm one of you.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
You know. I was just talking with someone that was
saying they got their tax bill this past friday. I
got my tax bill this past friday. We're looking at
it in shocked and amazement, like how did this even happen?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
And I want to say this to you too.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
A year ago I sat with the Economic Development director
in his office before he quit and moved out of state,
and he said, Jamika, something that's going to hit this town.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
He said that you have never seen before.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
And so if he knew this a year ago, that
means that the administration knew this a year ago. So
why didn't they properly prepare the people. If this was
truly a situation where it was there's nothing we can do.
You know, the reval is going to shoot your taxes up.
At least prepare warn the people about it. More Over
than that, Vinnie, there was preventions and things they could
(02:03):
have put in place so we wouldn't feel this, and
they didn't do it.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
So we got to protect the people of this town.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
The people now have to stand up and say, you
know what, we're not taking us anymore. We've tried it
the political way, the politician way, the status quo way,
and now we need to put someone in there that's
going to truly fight for us, and that would be.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Me and the way to do that right now anyway,
for this next week in particular, Yes, it's signatures.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Signatures, signatures, signatures. I have never seen so many signatures
to get in my life. Nine hundred and sixty five
to be exact. But guess what, we can do it.
But I need the people. I need them to show.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
How many do you need altogether? Nine hundred six old,
that's how many. But guess what I thought, that's where
you were at already. No people got to turn out.
That's the biggest thing. I'm banging my head against you. Well,
I hear from a lot of ham didn't listen in general. Yeah,
because like I said at the outset, the show's cent,
you know, this is where we're set up. We've got
skin in this game. We always have. As far as
(03:02):
to Hamden may Or, all racists are concerned going on
thanks to the Yetsi family, uh, going back to the
nineties and how much uh Mike Yetsi had to say
as far as the town's concerned. Love of town. It
racist kid here, you know. Yeah, but everybody that I
(03:23):
hear from turnout you got you gotta vote. You have
to the voter turnout is poor. And if voter turnout
is going to be poor, you know, it starts with
signatures like fight for your town. Unless you just want
to sit on your couch and continue to belly ache
for your town.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
You have to fight for this town, folks.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
And here's the thing right now, only registered Democrats in
the town of Hamdonk could put this signature down. So
that's another pool of people like you have to open
your door when I come knocking.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
You got to open the door, right, you get look
through the blinds.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And and of course I don't want to interrupt people
during dinner time, right, I don't want people to interrupt
my uh dinner time.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Right.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
So the one of the ways that we've set up
is to have him come to us, Come to Bob
Thomas Ford who was so grageous to open his doors
to us because he believed in the message. A man
who's been in town forty six years. Yeah, all right,
had his business day he could have moved to north Haven.
He could have moved to Branford, but he stayed paying
(04:26):
those exorbitant taxes. And do you know this, the town
doesn't even give him the Ford contract to sell him
their cars.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
And he's right here in town for a long time.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
What a miscarriage of justice, if you will. But yet
he still believes in this town. He believes in it as.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Of this time. I saw him recently and I mean
you said, he said, wildly successful. For I hate to
do it to it, you know, it feels like half
a century. Yeah, that is no reason for him to
he you know, he to have such love and affection
for the town and such concern. But he does for
very real reasons. It's not to benefit his business. It's
(05:07):
in justice that he sees being carried out. He's he's
got a real vested interest in the outcome of this
race and what happens to this town. I've had a
lot of it's based on you know, his business growing here.
But he had many lots, you know, many outposts, if
you will, you know. Uh So, let me ask you
(05:29):
a quick question as far as what you said right there,
what if someone is I'm a Hamden resident, I can
prove I'm a Hamden resident, but I'm not a registered Democrat.
I'm not a registered republic I'm not registered and they
can't sign.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Oh well, listen, we have registered. They make stuff tough, though,
I'm sure they do. They want to keep out the
real people. Yeah, you know, they want to. They want
to continue to block those who want to have a voice.
And just like I told you the last time I
was there, the word democrat by definition means people rule, right,
but in their world it's certain people rule.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
And I told folks, you know.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
During that nomination, you know, which was a complete you
know what happened there. You know, basically they had picked
who they wanted to put in. You know, can't prove it,
but you know we see the results of it. You know,
they put in who they wanted and but the people
didn't have a say in this right. And there were
sixty three people that sit on the Democratic Town Committee.
(06:22):
But I told my team, we're not going to focus
on the sixty three sitting in this room. We're gonna
focus on the sixty three thousand plus that are out
in this town that are suffering their car taxes, their
home taxes, public safety. I was at a barbecue this weekend,
Vitie Penn Okay, a barbecue, beautiful home, sitting up on
a hill.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
With your husband, and he was just popping ye, you.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Know, And some concerned residents in town invited me to
their barbecue.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Guess what happened. We're on our way out. They're all
standing around this car.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Someone had broken into the car, and so the man's
wallet and blacka book out the car and handed Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
All right, middle of the day.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Middle to day, broad daylight.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
So you want to tell me we don't have a
public safety issue here where people are going two towns
over to shop for groceries because they're afraid to go
into the Hamden Plaza.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Something has to be done.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yeah, I got to tell you the truth. There's I
get worse stories than that one. I mean, that's awful
that you have to bring everything in your house with you,
You got to carry every you got to empty your
car out, you got to lock it up, you can't
leave your keys, and which of course you never should,
but we used to. But there were women getting shoved
down to the ground for those wallets. Oh yeah, so
(07:33):
in that instance, you know a bit of a I've
done worse stories but you were just about to say
you got it all covered as far as I'm a
Hamden resident, but I'm not registered at any party you were.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Saying, right, so register we have the forums on site.
Oh you have to do if you haven't been affiliated
with any political party. Also, if you believe you're a
registered Democrat but you haven't voted in some years, they
knock you out the system, so we may have to
reregister you there too.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, I think it's five years.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
If you haven't you know, cast a vote somewhere, they
will knock you out. So we have the registration forms
and we're there. There's a volunteer sitting there every day
from like ten to five.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Tonight, we're going to be there till six o'clock.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Where's there, Bob Thomas Ford.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I think it's twenty two to fifteen Dixwell Avenue. Twenty
two to fifteen Dixwell Avenue.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
So again, guys, these are people that are coming alongside
us to help a businesswoman who does not need this job.
By the way, can I just say that again. I
was knocking doors center brook Meadow, brook Worth Avenue last
night and I told the people, I said, listen, I'm
a businesswoman. I'm not a politician. They said, why are
you doing this? Then I said, because my neighbors needed me.
(08:46):
My neighbors showed up to my house and asked me
to run. And I pondered it because they're right.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I don't you know.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I run a pretty successful business. My husband and I
love to travel. We didn't want to interrupt our lives.
But it's something about and when your fellow man is
in trouble, and if you have the wherewithal to help
them and you don't, you're just as complicit as the
ones that are oppressing them.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
And so I have a voice.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I have a skill set, I have a mindset, and
more importantly, I have a rolodex of business professionals that
want to come into this town and help us turn
it around. But what we don't have in this town
is strong negotiators. We don't have people that know how
to talk to a Quinnipiac to get some of the
finances from them into the town, and Albertus Magnus, so
(09:30):
on and so forth. So guys, listen, I'm the person
that knows how to go out and hunt and gather
to bring those finances into the town. I've already met
with the DECD, which is you know, the Department of
Economic Development on the state level, who are just waiting
for me to take office so we can formulate a
plan on how they can funnel money into us to
(09:50):
help us bail ourselves out of this drama that we have.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
There's so many resources.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
But again, if you don't have a business minded individual,
if you have someone that just cares about party of
afiliation and care about you know, special interest groups and
helping people outside of this town, all right, they won't
help us.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
But we have us helping us. This is not the
team of me.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
This is the team of we, and I have some
of the most brilliant business minds finance people that are
ready to go in there and comb through those finances
in that town government center and put us back on
the right track, because we can do it. If there's
a way in, there's definitely a way out, and we're
gonna find it and we're gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
If you're wondering why I have this expression on my face,
it's because people listening to the show would probably think
like there was a teleprompt that was all stream of
conscious that was insane, wow, Because it's coming through my heart.
There's no script in front of it, like there wasn't
even a fumble anywhere in the No for real. You
(10:49):
said you were trying to explain back there, which I
understand people be other then why are you like I
like my life, I'm successful, we love to travel. You
also strike me as someone who's like I can't tolerate
the bs that I'm seeing and that's coming out of
the mayor's office, and that's going to compel you to
get in the game too. I want to share with
you an email I got from a listener that says
(11:11):
venue just so you know, as far as a Hamden
race is concerned. For some time now, it appears that
Hampden's been operating with election year taxation plans. You know,
not just Hamden, but I hear you. They say in
election years mayors have been using the towns undesignated fund
balance to supply funds by which the town's debt can
(11:32):
be reduced for that specific year. It means the mayor
and council can be liberal with teacher contracts, police contracts,
garner the support of those voting blocks, and then pay
for those shortfalls by taking money from our undesignated fund
balances to cover those costs. I'm told that Mayor Lang
(11:52):
practice that way. Walter Moore and Adam shiff who were
each his chief of staff, supported these actions, and on
and on. I wanted to know what your take was this,
and I get a lot of emails like this. Residents
are very informed. Yeah uh, and yet at the same time,
(12:13):
like I'm circling background and they got to take that
information and come out and vote. But I don't get
from any other a little bit of new aven but
Hamden residents are very informant to know that. Tell me
about the election year, taxation plans and operating What is
that all about?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Listen, First of all, it's a it's a they've been
doing this for years, right, and that's the excuse they've
been using. Well, this is the way it's always been done.
Well guess what if this is the way something's always
been done, doesn't mean that's the way you're supposed to
be doing it.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
So they own it.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
They own it, they do.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
And let me tell you from what I understand, and
I've I've interviewed and talked to a lot of people
across the state, this is how towns have been operating
in times past. However, I want to say this, it's
time for that day to be over because now we
have to go back to more common sense accounting, if
you will. We need to go back to zero based budgeting,
which is basically you throw out everything that has been
(13:10):
done in the past and you come in with a
pen and a paper and you go through each department
and say, okay, contracts, you know, union contracts. People teachers' unions.
You know their contracts and their salaries are fixed. But
all the other things you go through there with kind
of a white glove and say, what's the printer?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Do we need a new printer? Oh, we don't.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Okay, that's not being budgeted in. You would be surprised
at how much money you can.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Find and say it right, yeah, there's so much savings
in that.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
When you go to a zero based budgeting program and
accounting system based on that, just what do we need
stop all.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
This wasteful spending. We have to become more.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Conservative and listen, that's how we're going to turn the
town around.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
There's got to be cuts.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
From what I understand, Benny, there's surplus is left over
in these departments after they've done their budgets for the year. Right,
even the Board of ed ask for three percent more,
three million dollars more every year, but yet sometimes they
have surpluses leftover. Guess what, that's not zero based budgeting.
You should spend what you have and you should not
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over spend, and you should not have anything left over
if you budget it properly in the first place.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah, that's twelve said, And I'd love to see you
say that to who you're up and I'd love there
to be a debate. I want to see you in
this debate. You're ready to go with only a minute
left on the clock.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Go.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I want to make sure we get bodies to Bob
thomas Ford. That's the only place to go out there.
There's no online.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
You can't do it online. They got to be read.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Let's make sure because people need to be told exactly
what to do and where to go and do it.
So it's Bob thomas Ford. Seven days between now and
next Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Basically, yes, you know we're gonna have somebody sitting in
that showroom all right. Seven days up until next Wednesday
is the deadline, guys. And I cannot stress enough if
you're a registered Democrat, if you're unregistered anything, come down there.
Will register you between the hours of ten and six,
especially two in the six, and I will try to
(15:05):
be there as much as I can. If you text
me two O three eight O six O seven two seven,
that's two O three eight O six oh seven two seven,
call me direct. I will try to make my way
there so I can meet you in person. You need
to know your representative.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
That's why the website is go Jimi Kajeffries dot com.
Check that out too, and get down to Bob Thomas
Ford
Jamika Jeffries is back in with us today, one of them.
I mean, there's still a lot of people in the
running here, just on the Democrat side alone.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Well, Vinny, I mean again, you say there's a lot
of bodies there, but when you want to talk about
the quality of the individuals and no disrespect to any
of them. Again, I'm sure they're very nice people internally
and have possibly the right intentions. But this is why
we're in the mess we're in now, is because we're
putting in friends and family instead of qualified people who
(00:32):
can actually do the job to turn this town around.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Yeah, there are people who run out of love for
the town that they're living in because they want to
see changed, and there are others put in place because
there's a bigger picture and they're playing a role in
that bigger picture. That's what it feels like is playing
out here. I've seen it before. I've seen it before
in other times. I've seen it before in Hampden too.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Oh yeah, And I had a woman say to me
very sincerely, she said to Mika, if you don't get
into office, she said, I'm moving.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I'm moving because it's going to be more of the
same again.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I'm the only one out of all those candidates who
is not capital, not a politician.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I'm one of you.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
You know. I was just talking with someone that was
saying they got their tax bill this past friday. I
got my tax bill this past friday. We're looking at
it in shocked and amazement, like how did this even happen?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
And I want to say this to you too.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
A year ago I sat with the Economic Development director
in his office before he quit and moved out of state,
and he said, Jamika, something that's going to hit this town.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
He said that you have never seen before.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
And so if he knew this a year ago, that
means that the administration knew this a year ago. So
why didn't they properly prepare the people. If this was
truly a situation where it was there's nothing we can do.
You know, the reval is going to shoot your taxes up.
At least prepare warn the people about it. More Over
than that, Vinnie, there was preventions and things they could
(02:03):
have put in place so we wouldn't feel this, and
they didn't do it.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
So we got to protect the people of this town.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
The people now have to stand up and say, you
know what, we're not taking us anymore. We've tried it
the political way, the politician way, the status quo way,
and now we need to put someone in there that's
going to truly fight for us, and that would be.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Me and the way to do that right now anyway,
for this next week in particular, Yes, it's signatures.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Signatures, signatures, signatures. I have never seen so many signatures
to get in my life. Nine hundred and sixty five
to be exact. But guess what, we can do it.
But I need the people. I need them to show.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
How many do you need altogether? Nine hundred six old,
that's how many. But guess what I thought, that's where
you were at already. No people got to turn out.
That's the biggest thing. I'm banging my head against you. Well,
I hear from a lot of ham didn't listen in general. Yeah,
because like I said at the outset, the show's cent,
you know, this is where we're set up. We've got
skin in this game. We always have. As far as
(03:02):
to Hamden may Or, all racists are concerned going on
thanks to the Yetsi family, uh, going back to the
nineties and how much uh Mike Yetsi had to say
as far as the town's concerned. Love of town. It
racist kid here, you know. Yeah, but everybody that I
(03:23):
hear from turnout you got you gotta vote. You have
to the voter turnout is poor. And if voter turnout
is going to be poor, you know, it starts with
signatures like fight for your town. Unless you just want
to sit on your couch and continue to belly ache
for your town.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
You have to fight for this town, folks.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
And here's the thing right now, only registered Democrats in
the town of Hamdonk could put this signature down. So
that's another pool of people like you have to open
your door when I come knocking.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
You got to open the door, right, you get look
through the blinds.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And and of course I don't want to interrupt people
during dinner time, right, I don't want people to interrupt
my uh dinner time.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Right.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
So the one of the ways that we've set up
is to have him come to us, Come to Bob
Thomas Ford who was so grageous to open his doors
to us because he believed in the message. A man
who's been in town forty six years. Yeah, all right,
had his business day he could have moved to north Haven.
He could have moved to Branford, but he stayed paying
(04:26):
those exorbitant taxes. And do you know this, the town
doesn't even give him the Ford contract to sell him
their cars.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
And he's right here in town for a long time.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
What a miscarriage of justice, if you will. But yet
he still believes in this town. He believes in it as.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Of this time. I saw him recently and I mean
you said, he said, wildly successful. For I hate to
do it to it, you know, it feels like half
a century. Yeah, that is no reason for him to
he you know, he to have such love and affection
for the town and such concern. But he does for
very real reasons. It's not to benefit his business. It's
(05:07):
in justice that he sees being carried out. He's he's
got a real vested interest in the outcome of this
race and what happens to this town. I've had a
lot of it's based on you know, his business growing here.
But he had many lots, you know, many outposts, if
you will, you know. Uh So, let me ask you
(05:29):
a quick question as far as what you said right there,
what if someone is I'm a Hamden resident, I can
prove I'm a Hamden resident, but I'm not a registered Democrat.
I'm not a registered republic I'm not registered and they
can't sign.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Oh well, listen, we have registered. They make stuff tough, though,
I'm sure they do. They want to keep out the
real people. Yeah, you know, they want to. They want
to continue to block those who want to have a voice.
And just like I told you the last time I
was there, the word democrat by definition means people rule, right,
but in their world it's certain people rule.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
And I told folks, you know.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
During that nomination, you know, which was a complete you
know what happened there. You know, basically they had picked
who they wanted to put in. You know, can't prove it,
but you know we see the results of it. You know,
they put in who they wanted and but the people
didn't have a say in this right. And there were
sixty three people that sit on the Democratic Town Committee.
(06:22):
But I told my team, we're not going to focus
on the sixty three sitting in this room. We're gonna
focus on the sixty three thousand plus that are out
in this town that are suffering their car taxes, their
home taxes, public safety. I was at a barbecue this weekend,
Vitie Penn Okay, a barbecue, beautiful home, sitting up on
a hill.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
With your husband, and he was just popping ye, you.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Know, And some concerned residents in town invited me to
their barbecue.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Guess what happened. We're on our way out. They're all
standing around this car.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Someone had broken into the car, and so the man's
wallet and blacka book out the car and handed Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
All right, middle of the day.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Middle to day, broad daylight.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
So you want to tell me we don't have a
public safety issue here where people are going two towns
over to shop for groceries because they're afraid to go
into the Hamden Plaza.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Something has to be done.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yeah, I got to tell you the truth. There's I
get worse stories than that one. I mean, that's awful
that you have to bring everything in your house with you,
You got to carry every you got to empty your
car out, you got to lock it up, you can't
leave your keys, and which of course you never should,
but we used to. But there were women getting shoved
down to the ground for those wallets. Oh yeah, so
(07:33):
in that instance, you know a bit of a I've
done worse stories but you were just about to say
you got it all covered as far as I'm a
Hamden resident, but I'm not registered at any party you were.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Saying, right, so register we have the forums on site.
Oh you have to do if you haven't been affiliated
with any political party. Also, if you believe you're a
registered Democrat but you haven't voted in some years, they
knock you out the system, so we may have to
reregister you there too.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, I think it's five years.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
If you haven't you know, cast a vote somewhere, they
will knock you out. So we have the registration forms
and we're there. There's a volunteer sitting there every day
from like ten to five.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Tonight, we're going to be there till six o'clock.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Where's there, Bob Thomas Ford.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I think it's twenty two to fifteen Dixwell Avenue. Twenty
two to fifteen Dixwell Avenue.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
So again, guys, these are people that are coming alongside
us to help a businesswoman who does not need this job.
By the way, can I just say that again. I
was knocking doors center brook Meadow, brook Worth Avenue last
night and I told the people, I said, listen, I'm
a businesswoman. I'm not a politician. They said, why are
you doing this? Then I said, because my neighbors needed me.
(08:46):
My neighbors showed up to my house and asked me
to run. And I pondered it because they're right.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I don't you know.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I run a pretty successful business. My husband and I
love to travel. We didn't want to interrupt our lives.
But it's something about and when your fellow man is
in trouble, and if you have the wherewithal to help
them and you don't, you're just as complicit as the
ones that are oppressing them.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
And so I have a voice.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I have a skill set, I have a mindset, and
more importantly, I have a rolodex of business professionals that
want to come into this town and help us turn
it around. But what we don't have in this town
is strong negotiators. We don't have people that know how
to talk to a Quinnipiac to get some of the
finances from them into the town, and Albertus Magnus, so
(09:30):
on and so forth. So guys, listen, I'm the person
that knows how to go out and hunt and gather
to bring those finances into the town. I've already met
with the DECD, which is you know, the Department of
Economic Development on the state level, who are just waiting
for me to take office so we can formulate a
plan on how they can funnel money into us to
(09:50):
help us bail ourselves out of this drama that we have.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
There's so many resources.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
But again, if you don't have a business minded individual,
if you have someone that just cares about party of
afiliation and care about you know, special interest groups and
helping people outside of this town, all right, they won't
help us.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
But we have us helping us. This is not the
team of me.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
This is the team of we, and I have some
of the most brilliant business minds finance people that are
ready to go in there and comb through those finances
in that town government center and put us back on
the right track, because we can do it. If there's
a way in, there's definitely a way out, and we're
gonna find it and we're gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
If you're wondering why I have this expression on my face,
it's because people listening to the show would probably think
like there was a teleprompt that was all stream of
conscious that was insane, wow, Because it's coming through my heart.
There's no script in front of it, like there wasn't
even a fumble anywhere in the No for real. You
(10:49):
said you were trying to explain back there, which I
understand people be other then why are you like I
like my life, I'm successful, we love to travel. You
also strike me as someone who's like I can't tolerate
the bs that I'm seeing and that's coming out of
the mayor's office, and that's going to compel you to
get in the game too. I want to share with
you an email I got from a listener that says
(11:11):
venue just so you know, as far as a Hamden
race is concerned. For some time now, it appears that
Hampden's been operating with election year taxation plans. You know,
not just Hamden, but I hear you. They say in
election years mayors have been using the towns undesignated fund
balance to supply funds by which the town's debt can
(11:32):
be reduced for that specific year. It means the mayor
and council can be liberal with teacher contracts, police contracts,
garner the support of those voting blocks, and then pay
for those shortfalls by taking money from our undesignated fund
balances to cover those costs. I'm told that Mayor Lang
(11:52):
practice that way. Walter Moore and Adam shiff who were
each his chief of staff, supported these actions, and on
and on. I wanted to know what your take was this,
and I get a lot of emails like this. Residents
are very informed. Yeah uh, and yet at the same time,
(12:13):
like I'm circling background and they got to take that
information and come out and vote. But I don't get
from any other a little bit of new aven but
Hamden residents are very informant to know that. Tell me
about the election year, taxation plans and operating What is
that all about?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Listen, First of all, it's a it's a they've been
doing this for years, right, and that's the excuse they've
been using. Well, this is the way it's always been done.
Well guess what if this is the way something's always
been done, doesn't mean that's the way you're supposed to
be doing it.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
So they own it.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
They own it, they do.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
And let me tell you from what I understand, and
I've I've interviewed and talked to a lot of people
across the state, this is how towns have been operating
in times past. However, I want to say this, it's
time for that day to be over because now we
have to go back to more common sense accounting, if
you will. We need to go back to zero based budgeting,
which is basically you throw out everything that has been
(13:10):
done in the past and you come in with a
pen and a paper and you go through each department
and say, okay, contracts, you know, union contracts. People teachers' unions.
You know their contracts and their salaries are fixed. But
all the other things you go through there with kind
of a white glove and say, what's the printer?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Do we need a new printer? Oh, we don't.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Okay, that's not being budgeted in. You would be surprised
at how much money you can.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Find and say it right, yeah, there's so much savings
in that.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
When you go to a zero based budgeting program and
accounting system based on that, just what do we need
stop all.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
This wasteful spending. We have to become more.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Conservative and listen, that's how we're going to turn the
town around.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
There's got to be cuts.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
From what I understand, Benny, there's surplus is left over
in these departments after they've done their budgets for the year. Right,
even the Board of ed ask for three percent more,
three million dollars more every year, but yet sometimes they
have surpluses leftover. Guess what, that's not zero based budgeting.
You should spend what you have and you should not
(14:12):
over spend, and you should not have anything left over
if you budget it properly in the first place.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah, that's twelve said, And I'd love to see you
say that to who you're up and I'd love there
to be a debate. I want to see you in
this debate. You're ready to go with only a minute
left on the clock.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Go.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I want to make sure we get bodies to Bob
thomas Ford. That's the only place to go out there.
There's no online.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
You can't do it online. They got to be read.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Let's make sure because people need to be told exactly
what to do and where to go and do it.
So it's Bob thomas Ford. Seven days between now and
next Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Basically, yes, you know we're gonna have somebody sitting in
that showroom all right. Seven days up until next Wednesday
is the deadline, guys. And I cannot stress enough if
you're a registered Democrat, if you're unregistered anything, come down there.
Will register you between the hours of ten and six,
especially two in the six, and I will try to
(15:05):
be there as much as I can. If you text
me two O three eight O six O seven two seven,
that's two O three eight O six oh seven two seven,
call me direct. I will try to make my way
there so I can meet you in person. You need
to know your representative.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
That's why the website is go Jimi Kajeffries dot com.
Check that out too, and get down to Bob Thomas
Ford
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