For New Majority, Campaign’s Just Beginning
by Paul Bass | Nov 25, 2011 11:02 am
http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/for_new_labor_majority_campaigns_just_beginning/#.TtLKxWNbpxl.emailSomeone forgot to tell Delphine Clyburn that the elections are over.
Or maybe she and her fellow labor-backed aldermen-elect preparing to take control of New Haven’s legislature have a new idea in mind for how to spend their time.
Clyburn and 18 other newly-elected aldermen will start serving on the 30-member Board of Aldermen on Jan. 1.
Meanwhile, she has kept knocking on doors four days a week in her Newhallville neighborhood. She’s no longer asking for votes. Rather she’s asking for help in developing a long-range team of politically active citizens independent of party organizations.
“The people will come with me,” Clyburn said. “I promise you.”