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WATERFORD OPENS REFUGEE CAMP AT SPEED BOWL

WATERFORD FIRST SELECTMAN AUTHORIZES TENT CITY AT WATERFORD SPEED BOWL

Waterford First Selectman today announced support for New London refugees fleeing New London in search of political asylum. The 20 month reign of terror in New London has beaten down the populace to the point where Whalers must seek safety and security outside of the city.

As the current ruler of the Whaling City works his vision to displace poor residents throughout New London neighborhoods the community is scared, who is next? This prong of a coordinated attack by the administration on the most vulnerable in our community, those unable to pay increased rents, and property taxes, or afford real estate is just the beginning of the journey downward.

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Kudos to Waterford for opening the border to the fleeing New London refugees, someone has to help.

The administration’s favor of gentrification because of the increased tax base associated with the new high-income residents that are more like the mayor, combined with the perceived benefits of moving out the poor people and rehabilitating deteriorated areas to facilitate the renaissance of P-Town on the Thames. The poor people, the elderly and the handicapped all on fixed incomes are simply in the way of progress and the vision for New London.

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As we watch the public safety component of our city carefully dismantled and longtime residents flee all Whalers must stand strong and fight the hand reaching into the pocket of all Whalers.

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PLEASE READ JOURNAL INQUIRER PIECE:


"A pharmaceutical center and controversial attempt at redevelopment by eminent domain having failed to revive tiny and impoverished New London, the mayor of the struggling little city is musing about turning it into a playground for homosexuals. After all, the mayor told the Hartford Courant the other day, New London is the only place for many miles around that has a gay bar — two actually.

Of course everybody has to start somewhere. But gay bars, pride festivals, and “drag brunches” — the attractions cited by the newspaper — sound like giving up, just as Hartford seemed to be giving up a few years ago when the newspaper extolled the phenomenon of same-sex couples buying and renovating big old homes in the city.

This phenomenon was good for real estate values, but it was also an indicator of Hartford’s decline, since the homes were cheap because city schools were terrible, dragged down by fatherless children and thus unacceptable to the middle class, while most same-sex couples, being childless, are indifferent to school quality.

New London’s schools are similarly troubled and so the implication is, as it was in Hartford, that homosexuality is the only means of gentrification. (Hartford now also is trying to gentrify its downtown area with childless yuppies and retirees.) But under gentrification by homosexuality New London’s great beauty and potential might be lost on everyone else — the Thames River, the port, and ferries across Long Island Sound; the quaint downtown; the grand old railroad station still in active service; the Garde Arts Center; Ocean Beach Park; and much more, including the human diversity.

The real socioeconomic solution would be to merge New London with its big and wealthy neighbor to the west, Waterford. But in Connecticut actual solutions are always either illegal or politically impossible.


Chris Powell managing editor of the Journal Inquirer in Manchester





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