Thursday evening, the Milford Democratic Town Committee (DTC), held their monthly meeting. This month, it included a visit by Mayor DeStefano. His speech provided a striking contrast to the poltics of the day.

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Like many DTCs this time of the year, they are busy trying to recruit candidates for the fall elections. As they prepare, they had plenty of barbs for the current mayor of Milford. Recently, town Democrats had been calling for a policy concerning paid leave for town employees serving in Iraq. Initially, the local paper criticized the Democrats for not knowing that there was a policy, until it became clear that while there may be a policy, it isn’t written down or well known.

The Milford Mayor was also criticized for his unwillingness to give Democrats time to find an alternative to a plan to develop open space and described as arrogant.

This provided an interesting backdrop for Mayor DeStefano’s visit. Richard Smith introduced Mayor DeStefano as “a guy that really enjoys policy”. He went on to say that DeStefano strikes Smith as being “the real deal”.

The Mayor delivered what I believe was his standard stump speech. Instead of recounting the speech here, I will simply urge all of you to take the first opportunity to hear him speak. A key theme was that Connecticut doesn’t expect to be first in anything, with perhaps one exception, and that this reflects the lack of leadership we have experienced for too long from the governor’s mansion.

The Mayor commented that, “the first thing you need to do to solve a problem is to admit that you have a problem.” Later, during the questions and answers, the Mayor, when pushed, said, “I’m not perfect… I’ve made mistakes….”

We live in a world of airbrushed political candidates that need to look perfect and can’t admit mistakes. This is an underlying problem that needs to be solved if we want to elect better leaders.

It was very refreshing to hear an imperfect candidate. We need more candidates who can admit they’re imperfect, like Mayor DeStefano, if we expect to solve the problems that face our state.