Doug Wade, who owns an expanding dairy on the East Side, has been a vocal supporter of Mayor Bill Finch, but Wade says it’s time for the politically bleeding mayor to do the right thing and get behind Mary-Jane Foster, arguing she is better for the city than Joe Ganim.
More from the CT Post:
“… Bill has just damaged himself almost beyond comprehension,” Wade said. “I want to see the city saved, and it’s in a crisis right now. For Mary-Jane to win this it has to be everybody on deck and everybody putting up support, and that definitely includes Mr. Finch. He should step up, talk to Mary-Jane and say we have to save this city and I am more than willing to step aside if you can.”
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Sorry Doug, I have to disagree with your damaging commentary. Mistakes made on the Finch campaign have led us to this moment. Only Mayor Finch can beat Joe Ganim and only Mayor Finch deserves to continue the amazing strides he has made in just the last four years. Foster’s inability to go after Ganim, her lack of vision for economic development and her loss in Black Rock made it clear she is not electable. She has aligned herself with anti-development advisers. With a total of 1100 votes, that is not a person you put up against Ganim.
Bill Finch remains the only ticket in town. To be honest, on WICC radio, the Connecticut Post and Channel 12 news Foster stated Finch said he would support her if he could not get on the ballot. Why he would state that when she would not support him is
as ridiculous as his advisers suggesting going after 125 signatures would make him look weak.
Personally, I will be working my ass off to get Finch elected as a write-in candidate. I know I do not stand alone. A vote for Torres or Foster will be a wasted vote and the entire city agrees. It is Bill Finch because we deserve the best! 🙂
Sad, sad, sad and sick.
The best what, Steve? The best dysfunction? The only “landslide” Bill Finch is gonna know is an old record by Fleetwood Mac.
Hey Steve,
Remember to demonstrate the write-in procedure with a pen or a pencil. Crayons don’t work on the ballot forms.
How long does it take to get the Finch Kool-Aid out of one’s system?
Stevie, It’s time to canter off into the sunset.
Steve,
I’m with you in my belief Bill is the best choice for mayor, however I don’t believe that he can win against Joe Ganim without the full backing of Mary-Jane Foster. I believe he needs to put the ball in Mary-Jane’s court if he can’t earn her full support and her spot on the ballot. Mary-Jane is a wonderful person who wants to move this city forward without disenfranchising the citizens. I think she’d have a genuine chance to win if Mayor Finch dropped out and backed her fully. I’d love to know what happened that these two people who truly love the city of Bridgeport became such enemies they literally can’t see the forest for the trees.
Moo’s Who! Tell Timpanelli, Stafstrom and the rest of the BRBC mob mopes to pony up a quick $200k for MJF!
Did you know Milk is the Udder Cola?
Milkman, no offense, I am totally disappointed in Mary-Jane Foster’s campaign. It would have been nice if Foster cared enough about the city to support Finch, but clearly not. I think her 1100 votes speak for themselves. Her name recognition was less this time around than it was four years ago. She cannot win and those who voted for Foster are beating themselves up for bringing us to this moment. I guess those 1100 votes came from Marilyn Moore’s most eloquent robo call. There is only one candidate who can beat Ganim and that is Bill Finch and Mary-Jane staying in the race or getting out of the race will not affect the outcome. The city will either come out en masse for Finch and make history in our city or Joe Ganim will be Mayor. There is a clear choice. This time around Torres or Foster is a non issue. Coviello could have raised his political clout to a very respectable level, however fate has a different path for him.
After stopping down at Steelpointe this afternoon to happily wait in line at Starbucks, it became so much clearer that Finch deserves four more years and we the city will write Finch and Save our City! Doug, Foster doesn’t even factor in the general election. Without Finch, Ganim wins by a landslide and just wait for the headlines across the country! There are worse things. I am supporting Bill Finch, he had already received the backing of every respectable individual and group. Mistakes were made and now we move forward to make history. There are five weeks, Doug. If you support Bill Finch, join the many who want the city to continue to move forward without any other candidate reinventing the wheel and blaming the Mayor for their inability to make things happen. This time belongs to Finch.
Finch is toast. It’s not gonna happen. It’s very hard when a candidate one believes so strongly in loses. Lots of us have been there. It’s also hard for anyone to wrap their minds around the fact everyone does not see things as they do. In this case, enough of a majority of folks did not see that same Finch you did, Steven. The time has come for Finch supporters to make some kind of peace with the fact he will not be our Mayor next year.
A write-in campaign for Bill Finch would be detrimental to the City’s best interests. Any effort on that behalf would bring to reality what many in this City are trying to avoid.
So Ganim it is! According to Wicca.
Whatever.
As anyone can see from the passionate responses, nobody agrees with Doug, they are pretty much responses to myself. Enough said. I take my message to the streets.
Everything else is crickets, crickets, crickets.
Sad, sad, sad, it’s sad you can’t understand and see it’s over for Bill Finch. Hopefully Gov. Malloy can find a job or position for Finch because his days in elected office are over. Wakeup and smell the Starbucks coffee.
Crickets crickets crickets.
Steve, as Wicca said, it’s hard when you believe in a candidate, put time and emotion into that belief, and it doesn’t work out. I admit months ago I thought you were just being contrary and sometimes combative. However, I realized you sincerely believed in your candidate, you held your own, and the future remains to be seen. As much as I enjoy politics, and it looks as if I’m in it until I bite the dust, it takes a strong constitution to accept outcomes. Doesn’t mean you’re right or wrong, in the end the voters decide. I’m tired right about now, and want to see it over.
Lisa, great wisdom but as long as Steve takes it personally, people will keep coming at him. He needs to know it’s over.
Lisa and Ron Mackey, it will be over for Finch when he says it’s over. For me, this is a write-in election. If the people want Finch, they will learn to write his name. I am not looking to be on the ballot. I believe in miracles but clearly there was a great weakness in the campaign, pathetic to say the least while others were too busy walking miles and spreading the word. I accept it is a write-in vote. It is what it is. I support Mayor Finch and will continue until November 3rd. Ron, you may keep coming at me and yes I do expect a landslide!
Believe me, I have people to see, places to go, books to read and serious things to do as well as my health. If I didn’t believe Mayor Finch deserved this more than any other candidate, I’d stay home relaxing. 🙂
Hope everyone enjoys the Blood Moon, Supermoon, Sunday evening!
To quote the late, great Yogi Berra, “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.” There are too many people who do not want to see a convicted felon assume the mayoralty, and are not going to allow it.
Steve would rather vote for a known crook than do what’s best for the city.
I will be voting for Mayor Bill Finch!
Lisa, very nicely said, but I can’t agree with your statement, “It takes a strong constitution to accept the outcome.”
Sometimes you can’t accept the outcome, like the mayoral election of 1983. That election made a large segment of the black community realize the Democratic party didn’t have our best interest at heart and if you stayed, be cautious about what it says because it lies. It taught those of my ilk to vote for the man and not the party, which was priceless. That election was the first time in my life when playing the race card had a meaning. I don’t dwell on it, but I still haven’t accepted the outcome. Never will.
Steve,
The truth is, Mayor Finch has no realistic chance to win as a write-in candidate. People want to vote for something rather than against someone. Mayor Finch is a decent person who truly cares about Bridgeport. However, the City has been mismanaged during the past eight years. In addition, the Mayor’s campaign and Plan B strategy were also mismanaged. It is time for him to throw his full support behind Foster or Torres and for them to ally. The only realistic chance to defeat Joe Ganim, if that is what you want, is with a single candidate with broad-based support. It’s time to get serious and focus on the future.
David Walker, I am not running away from Ganim. If Bill Finch is not a candidate, it will be Joe Ganim. Foster and Torres have zero chance to win and yes plan B for the Mayor was a fuck-up I fully acknowledge and those responsible should be ashamed. Moving forward, I will opt for plan C. I do not have the mentality of anyone but Joe. It will either be Finch or Ganim. If I were Torres or Foster I would acknowledge the obvious and support Finch. He is the only choice. I do not know one Finch supporter who looks at Torres or Foster as an option. I know that, you know that and Joe Ganim definitely knows it!
Who’s paying for the Finch court case?
It is a political matter and should be paid for by the Finch Campaign. Using City funds would be illegal.
We’ll see!
All Bridgeport Democrats are welcome to the Joe Ganim campaign! Please call 203-577-5220.
It’s Over … for Bill!
Stop the presses, I actually agree with Auerbach on something:
Mary-Jane Foster’s name recognition was close to nil this year. Polling 9% of the vote citywide, didn’t even carry her own ‘hood. Black Rock voted for Tax Bill, chose a documented pathological liar over her. The hell of it is the rest of the city chose a crook over the incumbent. Ain’t that the rat’s ass.
For all their talk of moving the city forward, blah-blah-blah, Finch and Ganim are just two clowns who are unemployable in the private sector. Ms. Foster has a decent job with UB.
Rick Torres for mayor.
One again Joe outmaneuvers the Democrats. Joe is Testa’s pick. Finch is Stafstrom’s pick. If Finch endorses Foster, that means she is now Stafstrom’s pick. Two different faces of the same machine. So two Democrats in the race probably guarantees a Joe victory in this partisan-heavy city. Perhaps Finch was right when he said democracy does not always work in Bridgeport, because it certainly seems to be playing out right here right now.
Oh my gawd, if Foster actually bests Ganim, what will Carolanne Curry, Ernie “Moses” Newton and Lisa Parziale do? I know, they’d all have to work for a living instead of pimping themselves out to a convicted criminal.