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• CAMPAIGN 2026 (COMMENTARY): KEN GUCKER’S HISTORY OF POOR JUDGMENT DESERVES PUBLIC SCRUTINY: PART ONE Public officials demonstrate their judgment and character by how they respond to disagreement. Recent reports of State Rep. Ken Gucker’s alleged misconduct and public criticism of constituents who disagree with his policy positions raise concerns about his ability to handle criticism respectfully and whether his conduct aligns with the standards expected of public servants. During the July 2020

  12 October 2026 · HatCityBLOG · $100 – $199 · 4K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

• CHARTER REVISION SAGA: DO NOT LET MAYOR ALVES AND LARRY RIEFBERG INSULT YOUR INTELLIGENCE Danbury Democratic Town Committee head mouthpiece Larry Riefberg circulated a graphic online highlighting Republicans who “have supported” four-year terms, another example of political dishonesty that uses historical convenience while leaving out facts that muddy their dishonest message. Consider former Charter Revision Chairman Carlo Marano. Riefberg’s misleading graphic highlights Marano's original tie

  10 October 2026 · HatCityBLOG · $100 – $199 · 10K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

• CHARTER REVISION SAGA: OH, THE HYPOCRISY! The arguments advanced by Mayor Alves and his supporters in favor of extending the mayoral term to four years collapse under the weight of their own party's history. For more than a decade—from at least 2009 through Mayor Alves' election in 2023—Danbury Democrats repeatedly opposed four-year mayoral terms, arguing that the proposal was bad public policy and contrary to the city's best interests. Now, with one of their own occupying the mayor's office,

  10 October 2026 · HatCityBLOG · $100 – $199 · 20K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

• CHARTER REVISION SAGA: TOM SAADI'S CASE AGAINST FOUR-YEAR TERMS HAS STOOD THE TEST OF TIME One of the strongest arguments against extending Danbury's mayoral term from two years to four years did not come from a Republican, a political activist, or a citizen at a public hearing. It came from then-Common Council Minority Leader Tom Saadi. During Danbury's last charter revision process between 2007 and 2009, Saadi emerged as one of the Democratic Party's strongest and most articulate opponents o

  4 October 2026 · HatCityBLOG · $100 – $199 · 15K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

• CAMPAIGN 2026: KUSHNER FAILS TO TELL VOTERS THAT SHE VOTED FOR TAX INCENTIVES TO ATTRACT THE VERY DATA CENTER SHE NOW OPPOSES, AND FAILED TO SUPPORT REPEATED EFFORTS TO REPEL THE INCENTIVES ---- “When the news broke recently that there's a developer that would like to build a data center in Rivington on the west side of Danbury, I got tons of phone calls and emails from concerned residents. And I get it. I live right nearby. So I understand we don't want this constant hum of a data center, li

  24 October 2026 · HatCityBLOG · $0 – $99 · 2K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

• CAMPAIGN 2026 ONE-ON-ONE WITH IRVING FOX | SEGMENT ONE: "WHO IS IRVING FOX?" Today, we hear from Irving Fox (Irving Fox for State Representative, 138th District CT), a former Danbury Board of Education member, former City Councilman, and the Republican candidate for state representative in Connecticut’s 138th District. I sat down with Fox to discuss his campaign, why he’s running, and what he hopes to accomplish in Hartford; in our first segment, we covered his biography and the driving factor

  21 October 2026 · HatCityBLOG · $0 – $99 · 1K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library