Valley Independent Sentinel

posted by: Watchman on September 1, 2010  7:54am

Derby Cat:

Try running Marc Garofalo for Mayor, next year….....Get serious!  Don’t get completely carried away with political hate, as you sound foolish.

posted by: superbus on September 1, 2010  10:48am

DerbyCat:

This had to be challenged. We don’t know what the hell was on those computers, and considering Mr. Garofalo’s record as a mayor, it’s fair to assume that there was a cover up in there somewhere. Maybe there was, maybe there wasn’t, but you cannot just wipe the data of all of your computers. If a company did that to their email or data servers, they would be worked in court like a speed bag. This isn’t just Mr. Garofalo deleting Minesweeper; those emails aren’t private, and if people are conducting town business via those emails, they are breaking the law. They have to be archived by law.

At best, this was spiteful. At worst, it was illegal. Though it failed, Mr. Staffieri was right to challenge this in court, as it sets a dangerous precedent.

I am no Staffieri fan; I voted against him, and I want someone else as my mayor. But this is a bad precedent, set by a man even slimier than Staffieri.

posted by: Watchman on September 1, 2010  7:15pm

DerbyCat & Superbus:

If former Mayor Garofalo didn’t have anything to hide, he would not have erased the hard drives, and shred Derby City Hall records, so he would not leave an incriminating paper trail.

Consider the City of Derby is lucky, that a former businessman, Mayor Tony Staffieri “volunteered to take the Derby Mayor’s job,” after 8 depressing years of “Lifetime Church Organist Marc Garofalo, at the helm.”

A retired school teacher “with brain-power,”
wanted the Mayor’s job, last City Election Day, but the voters, did not want him.

Referring to, the last two Derby mayor’s as “Slimy” is very nasty and offensive, and should not have been approved as an acceptable comment, for publication,in the Valley Independent Sentinel, in my humble opinion.

posted by: unaffiliatednothing on September 1, 2010  7:23pm

I’m glad Stafferi will not delete the files off his computer, maybe now we will find out how the administration botched the transfer station, or the real reason he fired the police commissioner, or why his kids “creatively” took the restaurant over without the 3rd owner knowing.

His computer would be the Derby’s version of the Watergate tapes..

Derby should be soooo proud of their “leader”, and I’m not even a resident of the town. This is comical to watch.

posted by: superbus on September 1, 2010  7:26pm

Watchman:

I agree that there was no reason to eliminate those emails unless there was a reason to, and I find Mr. Garofalo’s explanation of “turning over” to the new administration to be questionable at best, and a bold faced lie at worst.

And I stand by my “slimy” comment. Mr. Garofalo’s record is well documented, and our current mayor has a recent history of firing people because of a legal issue involving his sons. They may not be slimy in the literal, Slimer from Ghostbusters sense, but they are definitely dirty enough to be called out for it. Point is, my comment stands.

posted by: unaffiliatednothing on September 1, 2010  7:53pm

Watchman,

Take off those rose colored glasses. The 8 bad years by Garofalo has been followed by 6 completely disappointing and laughable years by Stafferi.

You can only blame the previous administration so long before this administration takes ownership of their doings.

What was a dump of a town left by Garfarlo, has been solidified by this administration by adding more garbage on top of it, all while smearing the town’s stature.

I’m glad they never filmed the movie they wanted to in Derby, it would give CT a bad name.

As far as the deleting the files…who really cares? Seriously, at the end of the day this was a complete waste of resources on all levels bringing this to court.

I get enjoyment reading about this administration in the news, it is like a soap opera put to news print.

And all this is coming from a non-Derby resident and unaffiliated political party voter.

If you can not see the forest from the trees as to the lack of progress in this town while being a laughing stock, both facilitated by this administration, then you are doomed to keep voting for complacency every year. Seriously, this town, from looking outside the box, looks bad, and you need new leadership.

posted by: Watchman on September 1, 2010  8:15pm

unoffiliatednothing:

Since you are not a Derby resident, your comments are taken with a “grain of salt.”

posted by: superbus on September 6, 2010  6:46pm

What other adjective would you prefer I use? Distrustful? Morally deficient? I don’t trust either man, and feel that neither of them have the moral capacity to properly run the City of Derby. You call it an insult, I call it my honest feelings on the men.

An alternative definition of slimy is “offensive or repulsive” (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/slimy). Under those pretences, I feel my comment was accurate. I respect your opinion and feel you have a point, sharpeye, but after considering, I stand by my comment, regardless of the offence either man may take.