New Haven Asks State to Allow Non-Citizens to Vote

[CTyankee]

5. Coming from this mayor I have to wonder about his motives.

This guy is in the business of keeping himself mayor for life. He's tried to bust the janitors union. He's deep in the grease of the machine. I refused to vote for him this fall and voted for an independent (who is a Democrat) running against him. Other Dems here in New Haven did the same and he had a real challenge on his hands but eventually won the election.

This is the guy who bungled the firefighters issue, resulting the in the SCOTUS case, Rizzo v. DeStefano, that weakened affirmative action. I don't know what his endgame is with this idea but it is an issue here that will inflame the townies who have already been inflamed enough. To them, I say "Fine, go live in East Haven," a town that loves it white ethnic hatred of "illegals" (even tho I have a few dear friends that live or have lived there). Even tho their forebears were largely Italian immigrants (and who knows what citizenship status they once had back at the turn of the last century), they harbor deep resentment against our Hispanic community.

I'm going to have to talk to my friends at City Hall about this turn of events...I'd really like to know what mayor John has up his sleeve...