According to this story in the Hartford, Connecticut Courant, the six city council members who are Democrats voted themselves the power to each distribute $50,000 of taxpayer money to organizations that the various individual Democrats wish. However, the three city councilmembers who are not Democrats do not merit the same treatment. The three citycouncilmembers who are not Democrats are Working Families Party members Luis Cotto and Larry Deutsch, and Republican Veronica Airey-Wilson.

The article suggests that the Democratic majority may or may not give their three non-Democratic colleagues the authority to spend $20,000 each.