Flashback: The 2005 Election

I have decided that since the local election is approaching, I would go back in time to the last election in 2005. I have taken a few quotes from the newspaper from the day after Election Day 2005 so that you can see what some of our elected officials said, and you can make a decision of whether you approve of them or not. Now, there are many quotes from throughout the election, but I thought the ones I picked were the most interesting.

In 2005, the Republicans held the Mayor's office for the past four years, and the City Treasurer's, City Clerk's, and Town Clerk's office for two years. They also had a 17-4 majority on the Common Council. Their slogan, which was often found on handouts, were that they were "Danbury's Team". Mayor Boughton claimed that success is occurring in our city when he said, "We are headed in the right direction! Together, we can't lose." For the most part things worked out okay as they only lost the Town Clerk's office, and three Council seats.

The Democrats, who needed to recover from a terrible showing in the 2003 election, went with a slogan that said they were the party that had "Good Judgement and Strong Leadership". Mayoral candidate, Dean Esposito, said that "While the city certainly faces challenges, I believe that we can do better." Now, things didn't go as bad for them as 2003. They grabbed the Town Clerk's office, and made the Republican majority on the Council 14-7 instead of the 17-4 majority that it was.

Right after Mayor Boughton claimed victory, with 58% of the vote, he said the following:

"We have to continue to work on building a new police headquarters. We have to finish the school work we started, and that's what the voters asked us to do."

Lynn Taborsak, who was the only Democrat elected to the Council-At-Large, said the following statement on what she promised to do:

"My issue with the council is that they have been a rubber stamp for Mayor Mark Boughton. That's over."

Ben Chianese, who was one of the three new Democrats that won, said the following on the fact that he felt footwork was probably a big reason on why he was elected:

"It was really my father knocking on doors, knocking on doors, knocking on doors."

Well, that's going to wrap this up, at least for now. One thing is certain, with about six months until Election Day, we should all know the facts before picking who we support. This is just the beginning.