New Haven Citizens’ Action Network BOA Accountability Project

On flyer left outside our door, aldermanic candidate Cleaven Johnson (Div '98) asks rhetorically: "Did you know Alfreda Edwards voted to raise your taxes?" By way of proof, he offers the New Haven Citizens’ Action Network BOA Accountability Project ...


19th ward alderman candidates for Sept. 11 election:

1. LaMont Moye. MBA from Albertus Magnus. New Haven public school substitute teacher. Proposes: Increased parent involvement in schools, etc.; More summer jobs/afeter school programs; mandatory programs & uniform sentence, NO GOOD TIME, for prison inmates; Community Review Board jurisdiction over redev and zoning in our neighborhoods; better legislation and reduced spending by city government. In 1999 organized First Christian Softball Association in New Haven, in 2006 founded Parent Project 99 (PP99) non-profit group operated by parents in New Haven. Pet project: tracking device in school vans for children with special needs.

2. Cleaven Johnson. MDIV '98. Seems responsible for New Haven Citizens' Action Network flyer: BOA accountability project; provides links on evaluation board of alderman, with emphasis on increase versus decrease in taxes. Main point: "Did you know Alfreda Edwards voted to raise your taxes?" President/CEO of "Last Kingdom Productions"

3. Alfreda Edwards. The incumbant. Doesn't seem to be campaigning much if at all.