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FAIRFIELD, Conn. David Becker and I both set out to meet Fairfielders Friday afternoon. As your trusty town reporter, I was hunkered down in Las Vetas Lounge with Managing Editor Matt Zalaznick for TheDailyFairfields monthly office hours. Becker, a Representative Town Meeting member and candidate for First Selectman, was hopping around Fairfields downtown talking with business owners. So its not surprising that our paths crossed.
During this meeting of the minds Becker shared what hed learned from the small businessmen he talked to Friday. He rattled off a number of ideas hed heard along the way: gathering business owners and landlords together to lay out a plan for downtown development, implementing a trolley car or shuttle bus to help people navigate the Post Road easier and allowing Director of Community and Economic Development Mark Barnhart to focus more on his job than the third train station construction project.
In my campaign, I take concepts that I think could happen and I put them on the table and say, 'Lets talk about them, Becker said. I think that thats important.
Becker and I will meet again Monday night, when he debates fellow Republican candidates Robert Bellitto Jr. and Hugh Dolan in advance of their partys caucus. Until then, both are ready to talk to anyone in Fairfield about whats going on around town. So stop by my next office-hours session and join the conversation.
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