Bloomfield's Crisis of Governance Part 1: An Investigative Series
Part 1: The Mandate Denied Inside the 7-2 vote, soaring legal bills, and the political war that defined the new council's first meeting. By Peter C. Frank, The Bloomfield Dispatch (Part 1 of an investigative series; read the article that kicked off this investigative series) BLOOMFIELD, Connecticut, November 16, 2025 — The inaugural meeting of the Bloomfield Town Council on November 10, 2025, was not a celebration of democracy but a masterclass in its subversion. In less than ten minutes, a 7-2 vote by the incumbent majority dismissed the clear will of the voters, a new councilor who ran on a platform of unity voted to suppress the electorate, and the newly re-installed mayor threatened to have dissenting residents ejected from the chamber. This was not an isolated incident. It was the public face of a government defined by a documented culture of financial secrecy, procedural obfuscation, and a fundamental contempt for the very public it claims to serve. I. The Fir...