She hasn't got a chance in November.....she's pulling at straws to get her name in the news.

She might not have a chance, however, she brings up a very good point we and many of our neighbors on N Nabby Road were asking ourselves. We basically don't care about who the mayor wants to blame for the power issues, Hello, if he must blame anyone, blame Irene or better yet, Mother Nature, CL&P was and is doing all it can as fast as possible to restore all service.
These automated Mayor's phone calls are annoying unless of course they are made to inform the public about important Danbury issues. Mr. Mayor, why not use the media to take on your frustrations with CL&P or other company that is not performing to your satisfaction? Most of us watch or listen to the news everyday, We can certainly live without him calling our home at any wee hours of the day to give us weather updates or to voice his frustrations against companies he feels are not stepping up to the plate at a "speeding bullet's speed"
Taborsak, YOU DEFINITELY GOT OUR VOTE!!!

Regardless of her chances, she is right....Its the first thing I thought of when I heard his message.....I was appalled.

At my neighborhood, we had no power, no TV service, no computer service, and my iPad had no service. We were without news from Sunday morning until Tuesday morning, The mayor's calls kept us updated, and warned us about flooding and lines down, so we did not leave our neighborhood. I saw them much differently than you.....they were our connect to what was happening in Danbury.

I am sorry for what you, us, and many others went through, however, I am not against "WEATHER" related calls from the mayor as I am with his "ONE PARTICULAR" call blaming CL&P for not having the power on soon enough. His CL&P rant should have taken place either through the media or Mayor to CL&P phone calls. I respect everyone's opinions except that this time, Taborsak is 100% correct!

David, Stop being rude.!!

Unfortunately, I did not hear the message because I didn't have power and my phone runs on electricity. On that note, I think this should be a respectful forum where people can voice their opinions. Anytime you disagree with a person's position, does not mean you're wrong or rude. Political banter tends to be very candid, tough and at times, sarcastic. That's what makes it interesting. Including the task of determing what is fact, fiction or matter of opinion.

O.K., I admit it.....my feelings about this issue are my own emotional opinion....as a result of no water, no flushing, no power, and no outside contact for over 48 hours.

Guess what people.. Danbury isn't the only town without power, and the mayor of Danbury is wasting money on sending out reverse 911 calls to let people know the obvious. He obviously did it for a "pat on the back".. but guess what, at this point - Danbury is getting power back as fast as other cities/towns - no thanks to him. As a matter of fact, my grandmother lives at Glen Apartments (elderly housing) and they have had no power since Sunday morning - Lynn Taborsak made a call and that power was restored... It is a shame that the Mayor couldn't have gotten that done...

Hey hey, it's just the Mayor being the Mayor as usaul and following his slogan. Politics over People. that is his slogan right?

.....BTW, I was one of the many without power, though we opted for a generator which we had to drive all the way to Brewster in that awful storm in order to keep our losses to a minimum and continue to charge our technology devices for work purposes. I can't say we had no water throughout because once we had the generator, the water pump was back in business. Next time, for those who have no generators, email me and we'll share our generator befits. Seriously!

This is a different Nancy from the one who already posted here. I thought I was the only one who was annoyed by Boughton's use of the revese 911 to lambaste CL&P until I heard several people talking about it at my hairdresser's. I was immediately put off by the call, thinking the mayor was abusing the 311 system by using the bully pulpit to rant. I don't know the whole story on CL&P; maybe it's true as someone suggested that the company did not do enough Sunday because they had to pay overtime. However, whatever the case, civility from elected public officials is needed, not inflammatory attitudes and comments such as the mayor's. I am a Democrat who has voted in the past for Boughton because I believe he has done a number of very good things for the city. That said, I have also found him to be opinionated and even rude: one time when I spoke with him on the phone about a concern, he kept yelling over me, not letting me even finish articulating my reasonably constructed thought. I even had to say to him that I thought it would be appropriate for him, as an elected public official, to let a taxpayer finish her sentence before he started yelling and ranting. (continued.......)

Back to CL&P--I would like to believe that they are doing their best. We are a culture used to such fingetip power and immediacy of response via our sophisticated communication systems (computers, texting, TV features on demand) that it is difficult for us to remember that in a situation such as Hurricane Irene, everything will move more slowly, more at nature's speed.  You cannot flip a switch to lift a tree off a chain-link fence made dangerous by humans' need to control another force of nature: electricity.  Perhaps one of the lessons of this storm is for us to confront our cultural distortion of the meaning of patience.

And if I may add, this hurricane Irene, will be remembered right along with the "cocky" and "rude" atitudes of the tri-state area Mayor Bloomberg and his personality, Governor Chris Christie (and boy was he RUDE this past weekend), and Mayor Boughton's abuse of the 911 reverse calls! Hooray to our leaders! way to go!!!!!

First of all, these are revers "311" calls, not "911" calls. If you are going to criticize the man, at least do so accurately. But alas, I see this election season to be another tit-for-tat from the democratic party with little to no substance. Along with A LOT of noise from our residential "Boughton haters" with nothing better to offer.

Please do not assume that everyone with a constructive criticism of a public official's attitude or behavior is a "Boughton-hater." That is overly simplistic, probably inaccurate, and contributes to our current civilization's tendency to immediately paint everything as black or white (and I use the word "CIVILization" loosely).

I am not a Boughton hater, nor am I a Lynn Taborsak hater. What I hate is taped telephone calls, be it from Boughton, or anyone else.
Of course, there is little if any local news available of an immediate nature. WLAD is nothing but a rant, and local coverage in the newspaper lacks substance and accuracy.
PATCH is at least a slightly more in touch media, but as far as depth and issues, there may not be any interest until a critical need erupts.

We are more interested in reality TV than reality nowadays....too bad....for US!

I'm back as Nancy 1....the original Nancy. Just so my thoughts and opinions don't get confused with any other Nancys joining our group.
I still like Mark, and think he's done a good job with the city. I'm not going to hold his one ranting call against him. I chalk it up to frustration. But I did read in today's paper that limits on overtime pay are slowing down the relief work from CL&P. I know you can't believe everything in the News Times (what a dog), but the State Rep. from Ridgefield is also calling for an investigation of CL&P's response. I don't know much about anything, but I do know this is taking toooooo long.

Hey, we just got another call from the Mayor, this call I approve, it had valuable information for those without power. Thank you, Mr. Mayor!! :)