The drumbeat against the face of racial intolerance continues... Read this letter by Julie Kushner, assistant regional director, United Auto Workers Region 9A, and John Olsen president of the Connecticut AFL-CIO.
Pauline Basso should resign.
As responsible labor and community leaders, we feel it is necessary to add our voices to the growing chorus calling on Councilwoman Pauline Basso to resign.
The inappropriate e-mails are outrageous and cause more divisions in a city struggling to find itself on the issue of immigration.
This behavior has no place in the Danbury Common Council or any other city in America. Elected officials must be held to a higher standard. We expect them to lead us on the high road and not engage in the politics of intolerance.
The only intolerance the community should allow is zero tolerance for this kind of behavior. If our elected officials cannot or will not provide leadership and healing for a community, then they must go.
As community leaders, both of us have attended many meetings designed to open communication and make everyone understand that regardless of our racial or ethnic differences, we are one community. In our diversity we find our strength.
Unfortunately, Ms. Basso doesn't believe this and has become part of the problem in Danbury, not the solution.
We join with the NAACP, Helena Abrantes, religious leaders in Danbury and The News-Times in calling on Councilwoman Basso to do the right thing and resign from the council.
If she won't do it on her own, then Mayor Boughton should make it happen.
Julie Kushner
John Olsen
AMEN!
Narrow-minded idiots like Pauline Basso and Joel "cowboy" Urice are a cancer on Danbury. Let your vote against these extremists on Nov 6th be the chemotherapy.
04.25.22 (RADIO): WSHU Latino group call on Connecticut lawmakers to open a Danbury charter school
06.03.22 (OP-ED): KUSHNER: "Career Academy ‘a great deal for Danbury"
On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
The amended complaint states that plaintiffs sought to remedy the continued discriminatory and unauthorized enforcement of federal immigration laws against the Latino residents of the City of Danbury by Danbury's mayor and its police department.
Plaintiffs allege that the arrests violated their Fourth Amendment rights and the Connecticut Constitution because defendants conducted the arrests without valid warrants, in the absence of exigent circumstances, and without probable cause to believe that plaintiffs were engaged in unlawful activity. In addition, plaintiffs allege that defendants improperly stopped, detained, investigated, searched and arrested plaintiffs. Plaintiffs also allege that defendants violated their Fourteenth Amendment rights when they intentionally targeted plaintiffs, and arrested and detained them on the basis of their race, ethnicity and perceived national origin. Plaintiffs raise First Amendment, Due Process and tort claims.
Plaintiffs request declaratory relief, damages and attorneys fees.
On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
