Tuesday, April 9, 2013

UPDATE: Will the Connecticut House vote tomorrow to confirm a Charter School Executive to the State Board of Education? - Wait, What?

Will the Connecticut House vote tomorrow to confirm a Charter School Executive to the State Board of Education? - Wait, What?:


The bill? Oh, just hand that over to the Hartford City Official in the far corner, he’ll be paying




I was recently introduced to a blog written by Kevin Brookman called “We the People.”  Brookman created the site as a way to shine the light of truth into the inner-workings of Hartford City Hall.
One look at the blog and you can see why some of Hartford’s political elite should be living in fear of his efforts to inform the taxpayers of Hartford and Connecticut about what is actually going on in the state’s capital city.
Of particular note is his recent acquisition of 257 pages of credit card charges by city officials, using their city credit card.
Although the information is certainly a public record, Hartford officials failed to provide Brookman with the information, despite a Freedom of Information request for the data.  However, he was finally able to acquire the reports by, as he puts it, “alternative means”.
Brookman writes, “After reviewing the reports below, I can see now why the City did not want me to see them. So much for that transparency they keep talking about.”
The reports reveal literally hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenditures charged to 


Will the Connecticut House vote tomorrow to confirm a Charter School Executive to the State Board of Education?