Wednesday March 26, 2008
Relax people, it was just a coincidence that Bridgeport Day in the Capitol fell on Realtor Day.
Despite the fact that 5,200 city homes are enmeshed in the subprime-mortgage crisis, Blog-o-rama saw no evidence of blazer-wearing, glad-handing Realtors offering fire-sale prices to Bridgeport’s citizen lobbyists for their homes.
As usual, Gregg Dancho, director of Connecticut Beardsley Zoo, was front-and-center on the PR front, today sporting a beautiful boa constrictor around his neck as a conversation starter.
I walked up, stroked its cold-blooded back and dubbed the boa “Joe Ganim” in honor of the snake that keeps on snaking, saddling the city for a cool $200 a hour in the never-may-end civil trial in Waterbury with spurned Steel Point developer Alex Conroy. That’s happening while Ganim crosses off calendar days down at the Fort Dix federal prison.
Dancho’s zoo got about $250,000 in the budget approved a few hours later in the Appropriations Committee. Sen. Judi Freedman, R-Westport, said it wasn’t enough.
“That’s peanuts,” she suggested in a zoo pun.