Editorial Warns West Haven Residents about Checker's Audit

In the print version of the Sunday New Haven Register yesterday, former West Haven resident Richard J. Luby of Seymour wrote a letter to the editor regarding the Checker's Audit. Now living in Seymour, he talks about the audit that Checkers performed in their town and remarks:

It seems that whenever Checkers gets involved in politics it turns into a witch hunt. It gets paid astronomicaal amounts to bring down the former administration and does a fine job of it.

That's the suspicion I had too, Richard.

What's worse, he explains that the former first selection who was the person who was the center of the Checkers' audit in Seymour subsequently sued over the inflammatory remarks and won - which means that Seymour residents paid not only for the audit, but for a lawsuit as well. He states that even people in Seymour who originally requested the audit would no longer endorse Checkers.

Richard also poses some questions:

Did Major John Picard even put a bid out before having the Checkers firm do the audit? Don't the residents of West Haven question why he didn't bid it out? What was the motive?

Well, we know in West Haven that Mayor Picard did NOT bid out the audit. We also know that West Haven residents most definitely question not only his motive, but why that is the case.

Tonight's City Council meeting will be interesting - it will particularly be interesting to see if people turn out in full force, or if they're just resigned to pay increased taxes.