Connecticut mayor hopes to keep job after using cocaine

davepc

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Tue Jun-20-06 05:58 PM
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Connecticut mayor hopes to keep job after using cocaine

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/20/mayor.cocaine.ap/index.html

BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut (AP) -- Mayor John M. Fabrizi admitted Tuesday he had abused cocaine while in office and said he wanted to apologize "to all the people of the city" but had no plans to resign.

The admission followed the inadvertent release of an FBI document in which an alleged drug dealer claimed an associate had a videotape of the mayor using cocaine.

In a tearful speech to about 200 city employees in City Council chambers Tuesday, Fabrizi said he had not used drugs in 18 months and had sought help for a drug addiction that he had hoped to handle privately.

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Fabrizi, a Democrat who took office after former Mayor Joseph Ganim was convicted of corruption in 2003, said he hopes to move forward and continue running Connecticut's largest city.

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MaineDem

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Tue Jun-20-06 06:02 PM
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1. Hasn't stopped George (n/t)

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MichiganVote

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Tue Jun-20-06 06:02 PM
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2. Ah...no, sounds like the guy needs more time w/his family--and soon.

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Alexander

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Tue Jun-20-06 06:04 PM
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3. Snorting blow on the taxpayers' dime?

Get him out of the mayor's office.

The last thing Connecticut - or any place - needs is some right-wing nutcase basing his campaign on morals and ethics.

I don't care if he has a (D) after his name; I would too if I held elected office, but I want my elected officials to be clean and honest more than I want them to be Democrats.

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bettyellen

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Tue Jun-20-06 06:06 PM
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4. well yeah, coke isn't cheap you know.

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MADem

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Tue Jun-20-06 06:11 PM
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5. Well, he's a pretty chunky cokehead

I saw him blubbering on NECN tonight, and he's not one of those types who does the drug and runs around forgetting to eat. He made Belushi at his chunkiest look svelte.

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truthisfreedom

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Tue Jun-20-06 06:18 PM
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6. whatever the people want to do with him. i personally don't have much

tolerance for addicts in office.

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zbdent

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Tue Jun-20-06 06:43 PM
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7. He should cite the

Rush Limbaugh precedent . . .

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4nic8em

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Tue Jun-20-06 07:04 PM
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8. Maybe he could

run as a former Texas govenor...

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