Dem Registration Up For Primary Vote

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UPDATE: Only about 40 absentee ballots were received by mail Tuesday by the Town Clerk’s Office bringing the total number of voters by absentee to 941 with one day left. On primary day, however, another approximately 500 have come in, still below original projections, based on more than 2,700 mailed, but perhaps enough to swing a tight contest.

The Democratic registration has jumped by 3,000 voters, up from 38,000 in mid July to approximately 41,000 the day prior to the mayoral primary, a product of new registrations and about 400 unaffiliated electors switching over, according to the latest voter registration totals.

Operatives for Joe Ganim claim they are responsible for about two-thirds of the jump. Education advocacy groups that support charter schools backed by Mayor Bill Finch have also had a hand in swelling Democratic enrollment through new registrations.

How many of these new voters and switchers will participate on Wednesday? Some of them have requested absentee ballots. Are you tired of hearing those two words?

So one day left in this crazy swirl of a primary and depending on the results Bill Finch, Joe Ganim and Mary-Jane Foster could face off again in the general election with Republican Enrique Torres and petitioning candidates David Daniels, Charlie Coviello, Tony Barr and Chris Taylor. Finch, Ganim and Foster all have a path to run in November. If someone comes out of this primary with a comfortable margin, however, it will be hard for the other two Democrats to raise money for November, so a tight race is paramount for that to occur.

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      1. Let’s hope not, Steve.

        There is no way to test an individual’s fitness for office. The judicial system does, however. Attorneys are evaluated on their legal capability, professional ability and moral fitness. Ganim failed on all three, twice.

        His people (including the attorney who pimped for him yesterday) are putting out the AB drive, full steam ahead.

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        1. Even the ones on relief who live in public housing or section 8. Did their taxes go up? Bpt leadership is chosen by the people. Bpt’s people are 65% the ‘47%.’ The real problem is you are the 53% and you never moved out.

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      3. You’re extremely sickening! Always up his a-hole!!! Keep defending a man who hasn’t done shit for BPT. Increased taxes, reduced our police force, tried to take away our right to vote. Don’t come with the shit about Steel point, and the new school! This all started prior to him taking office. Hired out-of-town individuals to run this city into the ground. They’re incompetent!!! Why are the police and fire chief not residing in this city? Finch changed the charter so he can have puppets working for him. Every other town makes it a requirement except here. This administration is the second worst after Mary Moron. Whom you also worked for. So Steve, you have always endorsed or supported idiots!

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          1. Poor Jim Fox, in less than 23 hours the end of your senile comments. Ganim will never make it through the general election. Broke, defeated and listening to more and more positive Finch announcements and endorsements. You and Advanced Therapy can cry on each other’s shoulders. I can only hope the efforts of the Finch camp will keep the city moving forward. I am a slug compared to those working on his team and I am a one-man army.

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        2. Gamin’s chief of police was an NYC reject who was out on disability? If you want to know why a mayor would have a chief of police who is not a city resident, you should ask Ganim.

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          3. You guys, stop it. Do you want Mary-Jane Foster to come in here with her “Boys, boys!” routine? That would ruin your fun.

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  3. AT, Mary Moran, really!!! Mayor’s term was only two years then. The Democrats have had complete control for the past 30+ years and you’re going back to Mary Moran?

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    1. Everyone is voting for Finch, donj. Look at Ganim’s commercial, it is so negative and depressing and it is ominous of what Bridgeport would become with a Ganim administration. It is sickening how Advanced Therapy could support Ganim.

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    1. donj, put all your past tax bills for each year on a piece of paper, you should have a total of eight. Then put all the pieces in a hat. Put the hat over your head and shack it, then pull out one of the tax bills, if it has a zero-increase tax bill you know it was a Finch reelection year, vote for Finch.
      But if you pull out one with a Finch Tax year, then you have to vote for Joe Ganim!

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    2. Not at all. Fair and honest would be great. Too bad Ganim was caught at a housing complex on Central Ave. as absentee ballots arrived. Could he be reelected and go to jail again?

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          1. Then he should have gotten his girl Ayala to schedule supervised balloting and he would have been able to act as a supervisor and the 700 ballots would not have needed to be mailed out.

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  7. I just got a robo call from Ken Flatto on my cell phone asking me to support Joe Ganim. I just got the call at 10:35pm. Are they stupid? I will probably get a call tomorrow since I pressed one. How in hell did they get my cell???

    10:35pm, is that the new rule for elections??? Ken Flatto, like the average person getting this robo call in Bridgeport has a clue whom this person is.

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