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Danbury Mayor Esposito Says ‘We’re Doing The Right Thing By The People’
Each week, Danbury Mayor Dean Esposito calls into the I-95 Morning Show.
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We chat about local events, city issues and highlight city projects. As we inch closer to the fall there will be plenty of campaign discussions to have and those talks began on Thursday's show (7/20/23).
Roberto Alves was recently endorsed by the Democrats in Danbury to run against the Mayor in the fall. We asked the Mayor about the news and if there would be any Jell-o wrestling in the future for the two candidates, this was his response:
"Who? No, I'm just kidding. We do have some points of concern, Mr. Alves has been out there for quite awhile. You know he ran against me in the last election and lost. The reality is Mr. Alves is moving forward, he's making statements that contradict exactly what we're doing here. So, we're going to toss it up a little bit, it's going to be an election that will bring facts to the people. You know I'm confident here that the people see what I'm doing, getting positive things done here in the city and I feel that the facts will speak for themselves. We'll move forward as any other campaign, you know it's really just starting off for us because we focus on the job that we have here. We're managing the City of Danbury so fundraising has started and we really haven't pushed it at all yet but now I guess we have to kick it in. Fundraising is one of the worst parts about a campaign, right? But the reality is people are very generous in supporting me to be able to get my message out and let them know that we're doing the right thing by the people of the City of Danbury."
You can listen to our entire interview with the Mayor below. We also talked about city paving projects and a long list of events coming to the Hat City.
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