Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State

Paul Bass of the  New Haven Independent  t ells us that Mike Carter, long associated with New Haven Mayor Toni Harp, has left the building: “Carter’s personal relationship with the mayor became strained in recent months, with Carter reportedly growing openly critical of her performance. A lunch between the two failed to ease tensions.” New Haveners cannot help but notice, as did Bass in his report, that Carter’s resignation “comes at a time when City Hall has been buffeted by bad news,  from a wave of over 100 K2 overdoses  in several days on the Green, to controversy  over city budget deficits ,  credit ratings agencies ,   education cuts ,  employee theft with a city credit card , and the  purchase of $4,000 [worth] of uniforms for mayoral staffers .” There seems to be a lot of beef on that plate. And yet, Harp will survive the buffeting, largely because the Democrat Party has had a lock on New Haven since 1953. The last Republica...