Today's Connecticut Post lead headline story links Shays and Finch in (sic) an effort to rejuvenate the Arts in Bridgeport.
Shays strategy of linking himself to a current Democratic office holder is his not so subtle way to reinforce his very dubious assertion that he is a moderate Republican.
Today's feature story (which I was unable to find online) is doubly ironical because neither Shays nor Finch have shown any support for Bridgeport's extremely anemic and nearly invisible arts community any time in memory.
The story announces an arts forum this coming Friday (28) at Housatonic Community college which is being run by Rell loyalist (and art gallery director) Robin Zella. The forum is meant to anoint a sham arts inventory report authored by a MA consultant whose only interest was in collecting the $12,000 fee and give the appearance that he was advancing the arts in Bridgeport.
Yours truly attended no fewer than ten nascent Bridgeport arts council meetings in 2006 and 2007 informally sponsored by Mayor Fabrizi's office.
These meetings were surprisingly democratic and open to broad ranging topics but came to an abrupt halt when the volunteer ad guy who was running them left; whereupon Robin Zella took over and declared that Shays was sponsoring a carefully controlled and largely closed arts inventory. The result is a boiler plate document which does little or nothing to advance the nearly comatose arts community in Bridgeport.
Shays wants it that way and does all he can to keep Bridgeport under foot, the third class city it usually thinks of itself as. At least that's the way Bridgeport leaders think of what was once industrial capital of Connecticut. Shays picked this up long ago and has got it down to a science.
His brilliant sham liberal connection extends to the now disreputable Sierra Club and at least one Human Rights group even as he votes to promote Bush's pro torture agenda and extend the $3 Trillion permanent war in Iraq and beyond.
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