07/30/10 CT POLITICAL UPDATE: Senior Citizens Mad At Gubernatorial Candidate Dan Malloy

Senior Citizens Left Waiting

Heartless Dan Malloy Ignores Hartford’s North End Senior Center

Democratic candidate for governor, Dan Malloy, must be absent minded, because he was supposed to stop by Hartford’s North End Senior Center yesterday to “meet with seniors and share his plans for supporting our elderly population”

Dan Malloy never showed up and no one from his staff called to explain why.

The director of the center, Karen Bailey Addison had to be told by a reporter that Dan Malloy had cancelled his plans to meet with seniors.

Seniors who had been waiting for Malloy's arrival for hours were very upset and center director Karen Bailey Addison told the press “I don’t like being blindsided like that.”

Dan Malloy was scheduled to be at the center at 12: 15 p.m. after a stop at a senior center in East Hartford, according to an press advisory.

another reporter from The Hartford Courant showed up the North End Senior center as well, only to be given the news: there was no Dan Malloy.

” I’m really disappointed,’ said Doc Hurley, who was left hold the bag with the other seniors.

Hurley added “Tell him he missed a very important crowd.”

The Malloy campaign accepted no responsibility for upsetting the seniors.

In fact Dan Malloy's people seemed to blame the center's director, Karen Bailey Addison for the screw up that angered the senor citizens.

Malloy’s campaign scheduler Michael Mandell said the North End was never on the list slated for the area.

“We wouldn’t want to show up without contacting the center first,” Mr.Mandell said

The Malloy campaign said there was no plans to reschedule a visit to Hartford’s North End Senior Center.

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