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Updated: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 3:42am

Mayor’s ninth bid no surprise

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Staff Reporter
Published Wednesday, October 8, 2008
He’s going for number nine. Mayor John DeStefano Jr. announced this week he will run for re-election next year, even though he won’t launch his campaign until next spring. If the eight-term mayor wins the November 2009 election — a likely scenario given his present stronghold over city politics — he will become the longest-serving mayor in New Haven history, surpassing fellow eight-term mayor Richard “Dick” C. Lee.
#1 By amec (Unregistered User) 9:43am on October 8, 2008

I think he should give some one else a chance- he has been in there too long

#2 By WEB (Unregistered User) 9:45am on October 8, 2008

he has been thre too long and not done a lot of the city- please get somome else in there HELP

#3 By Diogenes (Unregistered User) 3:11pm on October 8, 2008

No more, agh!

#4 By Alum (Unregistered User) 4:11pm on October 8, 2008

He has nothing else to do.

He has repeatedly tried and failed to get elected to any higher office.

#5 By Noooo.... (Unregistered User) 7:47pm on October 8, 2008

This man is the poster child for term limits. At least he's not the governor and CT as a whole has more sense than New Haven in who it elects.

#6 By Med Student (Unregistered User) 10:24pm on October 8, 2008

Reasons why he should not be elected again:

1. City officials/Municipal workers have become very lazy & set in their ways

2. It makes absolutely no sense that streets are swept 4 times a month-- forcing residents to fear that their cars will be towed

3. Crime is getting worse, esp in the East Rock Area

4. He himself is lazy

5. LAZY LAZY LAZY. A Yale undergrad would make a better mayor

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