State GOP committee member Virginia Landgrebe, of New Milford, said she would love to see Boughton make another gubernatorial run.
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"Just look at what he's [Mark Boughton] done for Danbury," she commented. "The city was going downhill when he first took office, and he turned the city around....
Hmmm...let me think about this.
Under which mayor's watch did the following happen:
Streetscape of downtown Main Street
Beautification of Elmwood Park
Creation of the Patriot garage
The elimination of the "slab of concrete" and the drafting of the Ice Arena
Creation of the City Center Green
Western Ct Academy of International Studies
Approval for the second parking garage on Main Street
(I could go on and on but I think you get the point)
If you said Mark Boughton then YOU'RE WRONG. Although Danbury's version of Napoleon Bonaparte likes to take credit for many of the things I mentioned, those items were done in the 1990s under Gene Eriquez...NOT Mark Boughton.
Our current dishonest mayor can take credit for bonding the city into oblivion, building an over-the-top police station that's STILL littered with problems (as well as the fact that it's build in a flood zone), creating the condo boom that responsible for an increase in strains on local services (i.e., overcrowding of schools), helping label Danbury as one of the most racist anti-immigrant city's in the state (you're welcomed East Haven), and running City Hall like a dictatorship...and all of this happened under the watch of an local media that's nothing more than a shell of what it use to be.
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.
