Wait, What? - Working to educate, persuade and mobilize through "perceptive and acerbic" observations about Connecticut Government and Politics

Wait, What? - Working to educate, persuade and mobilize through "perceptive and acerbic" observations about Connecticut Government and Politics:

Hey Bridgeport; Vallas Has Your Credit Card and He’s Going Wild (Part I of II)

by jonpelto

Faced with a 1.5 percent school budget deficit this year, Bridgeport’s Mayor Bill Finch traded the democratic rights of his constituents for a $3.4 million “loan” from Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy’s education commissioner.

Meanwhile, few are even aware that Paul Vallas, Bridgeport’s part-rime, interim superintendent of schools, is locking the taxpayers of Bridgeport and Connecticut into spending millions, perhaps tens of millions of dollars, and as a result of a series of no-bid contracts he has given to companies he has done business with in Chicago, Philadelphia, New Orleans and elsewhere.

Readers may recall that last week, What, What?, reported that Vallas had dropped the