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What QUALIFIES one for serving on City Council?

 Is every homeowner uniquely qualified to serve on the City Council?

 Is every parent of a special needs child uniquely qualified to serve on the City Council?  

Does being “painfully aware of the toll the current financial crisis has taken on our city and its residents” uniquely qualify one to serve on the City Council?  

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If this is the best reasoning that this candidate can put forward for their quest to serve as another “yes person” for the administration the choices for council have clearly been reduced by yet one more of the mayoral picks.

Would someone with two special needs children be twice as qualified as this candidate? No having a special needs child could well be a detriment to public service, the time and commitment to the needs of the child may well overshadow the needs of being an effective council member. The needs of the child with special needs should and would always come first. How old is the child is now a question that many in the community would want to know. The candidate put this out there to try to leverage votes and support by using her special needs child for political purposes, shameless. What kind of mother would do that?

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The “I did my job” statements in the letter to the DAY editor on September 14th (http://theday.com/article/20130914/OP02/309149999) fall very far short of the qualifications necessary to serve the city of New London and the community with any degree of success.

The contributor of this letter to the editor is probably a great mother, a good home owner and a “dedicated resident” (what does that mean anyway?), these characteristics bring nothing to the table. New London needs capable people on the council. New London needs people on the council that are independent thinkers and people that will serve as an effective check and balance to the administration. Most, if not all of the candidates put forward by the mayor have shown that they seek to be part of a supportive coalition to the goals and mission of the mayor and his administration. How much more of this can New London take? NOT MUCH!

New London cannot get rid of the mayor until November 2015, but we can assure that he does not have a rubber stamp council by not supporting any of the candidates put forward by the mayor.





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