New Britain Council's GOP Caucus: The Manafort Name Isn't Going Anywhere
(This is a funny story, republicans running away from trump and Kelly Ann Conway!)
Paul Manafort Sr. Drive won’t be renamed, the city council decided Wednesday night, but controversy about the title widened the partisan rift in city government.
Along the way, both sides fired political shots at each other.
Majority Leader Carlo Carlozzi decried Republican Mayor Erin Stewart’s blistering message last week about the matter, complaining it had a venomous tone.
“It’s something straight out of the Trump White House — it was almost written by Kelly Ann Conway,” Carlozzi said.
Republicans shot back that Democrats had politicized the matter.
“You’re smart enough to know if you want one of our votes, you don’t start by tarring us with the Trump and Kelly Ann Conway brush,” GOP Alderman Don Naples replied.
Democrats on the common council took another shot at changing the name, but the Republican caucus blocked them.
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