(Aug. 4, 2016) Berlin mayoral candidate Councilwoman Lisa Hall went on a tirade last week during an unrelated interview and vowed to leave town if she doesn’t win the election two months from now in October.
“I’m sick of it,” she told a reporter during a break in a discussion about her new butcher shop on Williams Street. “If I don’t become mayor, I’m selling my house, I’m moving outside of Berlin, I’m going to let all these wealthy residents promote my business on their dime and thank you very much, because I don’t live here and I don’t pay no taxes.”
Hall went on to compare the Town Council to Donald Trump’s accusations about Hillary Clinton.
“You talk about ‘Crooked Hillary?’ Well, we’re all crooked, because I have to sit there and watch this s—t go on and can’t say nothing,” she said.
She also suggested the town’s recent $95,000 land purchase on Flower Street was politically motivated.
“Do you think if Gee [Williams] was running for mayor this fall that he would have done that $100,000 deal with that developer?” she asked. “And why was Elroy [Brittingham] voting? He sold them some of that land. You guys gotta ask the right question. Elroy should have recused himself.”
If Councilman Brittingham had recused himself the vote, 4-1, would not have changed.
Asked why the town’s ethics commission did not look into the matter, Hall replied, “They don’t look at s—t.”
“That just frustrates me, in that they’re watching me like a hawk here [in the shop]. Let me do something without a frickin’ permit or something,” she said. “It’s like, why am I going to spend all my time and energy if everybody’s running around doing whatever the hell they want?”
Asked about the outburst this week, Hall said she wanted to retract her previous statements.
“You all aren’t doing this to me,” she said. “I didn’t say that. I deny it.”
Hall, who has to give up her Town Council seat win or lose, faces incumbent Gee Williams in the Oct.4 election.
“I’m sick of it,” she told a reporter during a break in a discussion about her new butcher shop on Williams Street. “If I don’t become mayor, I’m selling my house, I’m moving outside of Berlin, I’m going to let all these wealthy residents promote my business on their dime and thank you very much, because I don’t live here and I don’t pay no taxes.”
Hall went on to compare the Town Council to Donald Trump’s accusations about Hillary Clinton.
“You talk about ‘Crooked Hillary?’ Well, we’re all crooked, because I have to sit there and watch this s—t go on and can’t say nothing,” she said.
She also suggested the town’s recent $95,000 land purchase on Flower Street was politically motivated.
“Do you think if Gee [Williams] was running for mayor this fall that he would have done that $100,000 deal with that developer?” she asked. “And why was Elroy [Brittingham] voting? He sold them some of that land. You guys gotta ask the right question. Elroy should have recused himself.”
If Councilman Brittingham had recused himself the vote, 4-1, would not have changed.
Asked why the town’s ethics commission did not look into the matter, Hall replied, “They don’t look at s—t.”
“That just frustrates me, in that they’re watching me like a hawk here [in the shop]. Let me do something without a frickin’ permit or something,” she said. “It’s like, why am I going to spend all my time and energy if everybody’s running around doing whatever the hell they want?”
Asked about the outburst this week, Hall said she wanted to retract her previous statements.
“You all aren’t doing this to me,” she said. “I didn’t say that. I deny it.”
Hall, who has to give up her Town Council seat win or lose, faces incumbent Gee Williams in the Oct.4 election.