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From: ldirocco1@aol.com
To: mconnolly@newstimes.com
Sent: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:09 am
Subject: Lettter to the Editor
To The Editor:
New Fairfield's First Selectman John Hodge has requested $750,000 in stimulus funds for a foot bridge and pathways to access two "old houses" in his so called Museum District. To make such a nonsensical request when there are so many real and pressing economic needs is both an insult and an embarrassment to the citizens of New Fairfield.
By way of history, two years ago Hodge established a "Museum District" in a swampy low lying area of New Fairfield and relocated these so-called historic houses to the other side of a brook which currently has no bridge to access them and a project that has no money left to build one.
During the course of the last two years Hodge has both mismanaged and misrepresented the details of this project to the citizens of New Fairfield and it is for this reason and many other obvious reasons that funds from the stimulus package should not be used as a "bailout" for Hodge's stupid mistakes.
I hope that Governor Rell will have the wisdom and needed support to allocate these precious funds to projects that will do the most good for the citizens of Connecticut as they should not be used as a bailout for the failed promises made by politicians such as John Hodge.
Lucy DiRocco
From: ldirocco1@aol.com
To: mconnolly@newstimes.com
Sent: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:09 am
Subject: Lettter to the Editor
To The Editor:
New Fairfield's First Selectman John Hodge has requested $750,000 in stimulus funds for a foot bridge and pathways to access two "old houses" in his so called Museum District. To make such a nonsensical request when there are so many real and pressing economic needs is both an insult and an embarrassment to the citizens of New Fairfield.
By way of history, two years ago Hodge established a "Museum District" in a swampy low lying area of New Fairfield and relocated these so-called historic houses to the other side of a brook which currently has no bridge to access them and a project that has no money left to build one.
During the course of the last two years Hodge has both mismanaged and misrepresented the details of this project to the citizens of New Fairfield and it is for this reason and many other obvious reasons that funds from the stimulus package should not be used as a "bailout" for Hodge's stupid mistakes.
I hope that Governor Rell will have the wisdom and needed support to allocate these precious funds to projects that will do the most good for the citizens of Connecticut as they should not be used as a bailout for the failed promises made by politicians such as John Hodge.
Lucy DiRocco
