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WELFARE COMMISSIONER Paul Martineau has gone on record criticizing former Mayor Frank Guinta before, but never as harshly as he did in an interview last week.
"I told somebody, I said, 'Hey, you know what? Gatsas in three months has done more than Guinta did in four years,'" Martineau told us.
The question had nothing to do with Guinta. In fact, we had just finished asking Martineau about Gatsas' budget proposal, which cuts $17,000 from the Welfare Department, and were getting ready to hang up when he started talking about the former mayor.
He contrasted Gatsas' proposal -- a realistic, responsible budget, according to Martineau -- with the ones Guinta proposed during his four-year tenure in the corner office. In four years, Guinta never proposed a tax increase.
In three of those years, the aldermen ended up raising taxes.
"Frank would let the aldermen hang," Martineau said. "He would throw it to the aldermen: 'Well, if there's a tax increase, it's their fault.' He wasn't realistic."
Martineau is a Democrat. He clashed with Guinta -- who like Gatsas, is a Republican -- last year, accusing the mayor of trying to cut the welfare budget without consulting him.
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Source: Scott Brooks' City Hall: "Saving up for a rainy day, even when it's already pouring" By SCOTT BROOKS, New Hampshire Union Leader Staff, April 3, 2010
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Frank Guinta and Carol Shea-Porter are both establishment candidates. Guinta, with at best, a very weak private sector experience has the political machinery of Manchester and the blessings of the National GOP (i.e. Eric Cantor).
ReplyDeleteShea-Porter, is the darling of the Progressive movement which believes all social problems can be cured by government intervention and spending. Add to this the alphabet soup of SEIU, NEA, AFSCME, and the legion of public services recipients, Carol has quite an establishment behind her. The question is, do we want either one?
I'll take Frank any day against socialist Carol... then Carol can go back to being hauled out of town halls as one of the underclasses.
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