Former elected Democrats and residents who have been historically critical of tax deferments to Residential Developers are still expressing deep outrage and disappointment with Mayor Alves and current Democratic City Council leadership's push to provide residential developer BRT yet another multi-year tax giveaway in the face of a historic thirty-million-dollar education budget request.

An ever-growing number of local Democrats, former elected officials, and former politically active residents have expressed their dismay and discomfort with the current state of affairs at City Hall and the local Democratic Party on various unreported topics. As someone keenly aware of the complaints towards the current leadership and who has meticulously documented BRT's controversial past with the city, people have requested that I provide readers with a historical lesson on Danbury Democrats' former decades-long opposition to Tax Giveaways to residential developers.

I'll dig into the HatCityBLOG archives and provide a LONG and DETAILED flashback on the history of local Democrats' former opposition to tax giveaways to residential developers and show how the new Democratic approach to this topic has added to the ever-growing rift within the party. Here's a list of the Democrats who voted against the tax giveaway.

Barry Rickert (at large)

Dennis Perkins (1st ward)

Duane Perkins (5th ward)

Ben Chianese (6th ward)

Paul Rotello (6th ward)