Willie Fritz on CTA Suit

Carol Walter, Clinton, CT Selectman, challenges First Selectman Willie Fritz regarding the CTA suit brought on July 10. Willie and his partisan Selectmen hang together to violate the Town Charter and to deny Clinton taxpayers their right to petition. Walter points out that she had to see this on the New Haven Register website to learn about it. Fritz claims Stan Fisher called him about it and that Fisher learned about it from the CTA press release. In fact Fisher called Pam Fritz, the CTA president BEFORE the release was distributed to the press and asked why we were suing if our Town Charter was identical to the Windham charter. The following is her reply, which Mr. Fisher failed to report as he is completely compromised by the First Selectman: From: Pamela B Fritz To: Stan Fisher Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 4:36 PM Subject: CTA Lawsuit Hi Stan Our law suit is about the violation by our Board of Selectmen of our Town Charter. Regarding the town of Windham and their case, our attorney had already reviewed this case prior to filing our petition. 1. Windham has a Town Counsel form of government which functions as their legislative body. Clinton has a Town Meeting form of government that functions as our legislative body. 2. The Supreme court found that the citizens of Windham did have the right to petition. What they found was that the content of the petition was improper as it asked for a reduction of the expenditure to "0". Our 2nd petition was approved by town counsel ...