Lennie, let’s go one extra step and go to previous OIB comments before these video hit the web:
Rob Traber says:
September 18, 2023 at 1:58 am
Sorry Lennie, I’m definitely with the public interest on this one. Not just because I support Gomes, more because I’ve worked on numerous prior campaigns that have been the victims of the DTC machine’s AB ballot abuse,
AB abuse has been going on in this city for decades, primarily to the benefit of the election victors. And, it has gotten worse in recent recent elections. So, if this leads to honest and fair elections for the people of our city, I’m all for it,
I would agree that there may be ramifications for those involved with the leak, but he/she/they is/are a hero/heroes to me. But then, I do have an autographed copy of the “Pentagon Papers”.
It is ironic that y’all have raised such an uproar about a DTC unauthorized use of a private citizen’s camera to try to nail Maria when in fact she was authorized by the woman’s legal guardian to be there and to see if her ballot had arrived (not open it). And, yet you barely mention that Wanda was stuffing numerous/dozens of ballots into the AB ballot box on multiple trips. She’s not supposed to even have them in her possession!
Now, you focus on the leak, not the AB fraud … pure deflection! I’d definitely say the fraud is a more serious problem, and you need to get your values straight.
Look who is there! Maria Hernandez. She is now, Johnny’s left hand woman. She is the true Absentee Ballot Queen. In the 2015 primary, she was with Finch. Her little band did everything imaginable to win it for Finch. Ganim was going to lose to Finch. But, the unexpected happened. There was NO Video; no report to BPD; NO SEEC complaint. We’ll there was the complaint I filed later, I questioned her activities wuth sworn affidavits from one key operative who was not paid for his work. I warned him about having any cobtacts with her and he eventually visited Maria Hernandez. She quote “slapped the shit out of me as soon as I walked in”. SEEC eventually dismissed the complaint as they did visited his old address at least 3 times. What happened with most of the over 1,200 unreturned ABs? I tell y’all, but I’d have to kill y’all. NOTE: The slapping incident was only reported to me. FILE CLOSED.
so different people making deposits of what appears to be a single ballot delivery. can it be their own? or maybe for a family member in at least some of the cases? what’s the issue here? how is this an equivalent to geter single handedly shoving stacks of ballots that were in a large bag into a ballot box at CITY HALL? I’m not trying to start a debate just trying to understand.
Single ballot delivery? How many Ganim ballots were intercepted and destroyed Sherlock? Don’t even try to spin it the other way now. Keep in mind that ALL of the participants on the Gnomes Camp and Moore Camp have done this for years.
Anyone examined/researched the SEEC database of complaints I’ve filed yet? Anyone seen or heard of John Marshall Lee? How much money did Jaoa or John M. Gomes STEAL from Andre Ayala’s Committees between 2008 and 2016 alone? Show me where he was paid for his duty as treasurer compared to Disbursements he made to Red Rooster [deli, pub, restaurant]?
Come on JML, hire Maria Pereira, she’s excellent at doing research.
again I am not here to debate and I understand that this has been the culture in Bridgeport for years. but sticking to the video footage I just don’t see these as equivalent. In 1 video we see someone shoving tons of ballots into the ballot box about 7 trips During the wee hours of the morning, and the ballots all come from a large bag. And in the other video I see single people hopping out of a car and dropping off what appears to be is about one envelope in their hand. so maybe I am over looking something but can someone point out what I am not seeing in these videos. just don’t see them as equivalent.
Why do you raise my name and suggest that I consult Maria Pereira for research assistance?? Is it because many folks appreciate the “apolitical” approach I generally use to discuss the governance or lack thereof in the City among political practitioners? So, I repeat my comments from yesterday to BRIDGEPORT OPERATION OVERSIGHT (BOO), for those who may not have read it previously.
Corrupt election practices? We are accustomed to “breaking news” with reports that there will be video at 11 PM. In this case the video hit youtube first though not in a comprehensive fashion showing all of the details available from footage shot with public cameras, public observers, and funded with taxpayer money.
So the request from City Attorney John Bohannon to the Judge in charge to keep video footage “private” is not an act of an OPEN, ACCOUNTABLE, TRANSPARENT, and HONEST municipal government, it seems to me.
And the “story telling” by elected members of the City Council that offers the “race card” as an explanation rings untrue and frankly outrageous to me.
When an absentee ballot system can be played by those in power as well as some who wish to replace them in power, it is time for higher authority to come down from on high and open a full review of all of the facts: those we can observe and acknowledge as truthful, and others that are currently hidden from view.
Time is short you may tell me, but for years now, G2 has ignored the Charter directive to report to the City Council annually in September regarding info collected from all Departments, on the state of the City. Frankly, our Charter does not reference, “renter rebates” which are funded and administered by the State of CT annually providing $700-900 to eligible renters who file an application timely. Funds are sent to citizen-renters around Election dates, though applications may be filed from April to fall with the help of State authorized local assistance. Is it interesting that this responsibility and process has been infiltrated for years by Democratic Town Committee members and political leaders who have duties in City Hall involving Seniors and contact with voters.
Yet many eligible claims for “renter rebates” are filed by folks living in HUD housing. Where do they earn rights to democratic process and listening for their problems, issues, and concerns? Where is Park City Community commission and staff responsible and active, or not? Who stands for democratic practice in this City in general? We are urban, yes. And we are a 70% or more minority community. If you believe that “one person, one vote” is important for all, why are people not coming to vote? The vote is your voice. The ballot gives you a choice. Inform yourself. Your ballot will affect current names on the ballot, and actions for years to come. Vote and encourage others including all of the younger folks you know. Change happens every day, but leadership change happens by pluralities won at election time, not by complaining about “the way things are”. Will you vote on November 7? Will that make a difference? Time will tell.
“And the “story telling” by elected members of the City Council that offers the “race card” as an explanation rings untrue and frankly outrageous to me.”
Are you still a paying member of the NAACP?
Perhaps the “race card” being used by City Council members are the ones you’ve misplaced.
Stuffed-Gate Continues
Judge Clark has no choice but to eliminate the (Primary ) and go right to the general election and
ban all Drop Boxes in Bridgeport.
Deliberate election fraud, on a massive scale, was the false claim made by the Trump insurrectionists regarding the 2020 election. It was that suspicion of election fraud, by the easily led, emotionally labile Trump supporters that stormed the Capitol and killed Capital police officers, that nearly upended our elected government and nearly upended our very form of government… Political insurrection, instigated by political manipulators/agitators seeking to install an autocratic despot as US dictator, was accomplished by way of playing on the hopes and fears of impressionable, anti-democratic racists/bigots with respect to the illegitimacy of a democratic election, stolen by way of “ballot stuffing,” per the false claim that was refuted by many exhaustive audits of contested voting districts/precincts, nationwide.
The political shenanigans seen — on thousands of hours of official BPD video recordings — by the whole nation, and beyond, depicting the stealing of an election by “ballot stuffing,” plays directly into the political narrative/rationale for violent insurrection/civil war of the racist, far-right factions of our society/electorate, putting the whole nation at political and even physical risk in the next presidential/congressional election cycle. The dangerous, racist, far-right, will say “Look what happened in Bridgeport!”
And we can be sure that they will be citing the demographic statistics of our city when they deride us, the Democratic Party, and democracy in general as they shake their heads and spit verbal bile as they mourn the Trump loss and Democratic sweep in 2024… It won’t matter that the eyes of the nation and the world force a squeaky-clean election. All that will matter is that massive ballot fraud was perpetrated in one failing, DEMOCRAT city, that, in reality, is run/politically-controlled exploitatively by and for the benefit of those that don’t actually live in the city, in order to keep the regional, socioeconomic status quo, and political/economic benefits available for enjoyment by said “absentee landlords” (puns intended)….
So, yes; Bridgeport’s “Ballot Gate” is an “exploding scandal”, per mayoral candidate Daniels observation. But it might also prove to “explosive” — in a more literal sense — in the aftermath of the 2024 elections, if there aren’t thorough investigations, leading to appropriate legal consequences for any wrong-doing discerned thereof, completed in a timely way, by appropriate law enforcement agencies pursuant to a legitimate outcome in the current, Bridgeport mayoral election cycle…
Hit the RESET BUTTON for Bridgeport’s future! Vote for Lamond Daniels for Mayor! (No absentee ballots in his trunk!…)
Spoken like a true plantation Democrat Jeff. The stolen POTUS election couldn’t be proven because key evidence was not allowed to be turned in because judges with no balls were afraid to do the right thing because of the riots occurrying throughtout the Republic because of the Saint George Floyd conspiracy. And you continue to drink the Kool-Aid with the J6 propaganda that an insurrection occurred and police officers died that day. The only person to die that day was an unarmed Ashli Babbitt shot by a trigger happy cop. Let’s not talk about the government plants like Ray Epps who was only charged with a misdemeanor.
But let’s stay on the subject. The Dems, when there’s no Republican candidate to take down in the Shitport do what they do best they turn on each other. And that’s why Shitport is what it is a Shithole city and the taxpayers get what they voted for.
“Deliberate election fraud, on a massive scale, was the false claim made by the Trump insurrectionists regarding the 2020 election.”
It wasn’t a false claim. There is a parallel to this primary in the sense that both sides were doing the same. It was a “massive scale” when considering the fact that both Republicans and Democrats were doing their AB thing.
Looks like we need to re think these drop boxes. I say get rid of them. If we must have them, make them like the new mail boxes that USPS has that take only one envelope at a time.
At the end of the day, it is not about how these ballots are being turned in to the system, it is about how they are being collected. Both side know it’s how you need to play the game in Bridgeport to win. Who serves the better lunch all year round, the picnic’s, the relationships, it is a system. WE need to get this back to baseline, laws need to be followed. It is not fair to folks who stand out in the cold waiting for polls to open at 6 AM , do everything right, and at end of the day it ends up coming down to who got the most ab’s who wins?
Where the hell is that place where people stand in line on the cold before 6 a.m.?
So, you’re saying that had all the people who voted by AB, had instead voted the same way in person, Gomes would have won the machine count?
I’ll be waiting for the next of the many stupid OIB posts.
Most developed nations in the world hold elections on Sundays when it is easier for citizens to vote.
We held election on work days when it is harder for citizens to vote.
Then we whine about absentee ballot problems.
Pink Panther: Quit stealing my lines. Warner Wolf
Lennie, let’s go one extra step and go to previous OIB comments before these video hit the web:
Rob Traber says:
September 18, 2023 at 1:58 am
Sorry Lennie, I’m definitely with the public interest on this one. Not just because I support Gomes, more because I’ve worked on numerous prior campaigns that have been the victims of the DTC machine’s AB ballot abuse,
AB abuse has been going on in this city for decades, primarily to the benefit of the election victors. And, it has gotten worse in recent recent elections. So, if this leads to honest and fair elections for the people of our city, I’m all for it,
I would agree that there may be ramifications for those involved with the leak, but he/she/they is/are a hero/heroes to me. But then, I do have an autographed copy of the “Pentagon Papers”.
It is ironic that y’all have raised such an uproar about a DTC unauthorized use of a private citizen’s camera to try to nail Maria when in fact she was authorized by the woman’s legal guardian to be there and to see if her ballot had arrived (not open it). And, yet you barely mention that Wanda was stuffing numerous/dozens of ballots into the AB ballot box on multiple trips. She’s not supposed to even have them in her possession!
Now, you focus on the leak, not the AB fraud … pure deflection! I’d definitely say the fraud is a more serious problem, and you need to get your values straight.
OKAY LENNIE, YOU’RE NEXT!
Lennie used the wrong line, here’s a more fitting one considering the speed of their AB effort:
https://youtu.be/zOvyRjVQLjE?si=yH1GyTtP0wVFKi_2
Look who is there! Maria Hernandez. She is now, Johnny’s left hand woman. She is the true Absentee Ballot Queen. In the 2015 primary, she was with Finch. Her little band did everything imaginable to win it for Finch. Ganim was going to lose to Finch. But, the unexpected happened. There was NO Video; no report to BPD; NO SEEC complaint. We’ll there was the complaint I filed later, I questioned her activities wuth sworn affidavits from one key operative who was not paid for his work. I warned him about having any cobtacts with her and he eventually visited Maria Hernandez. She quote “slapped the shit out of me as soon as I walked in”. SEEC eventually dismissed the complaint as they did visited his old address at least 3 times. What happened with most of the over 1,200 unreturned ABs? I tell y’all, but I’d have to kill y’all. NOTE: The slapping incident was only reported to me. FILE CLOSED.
so different people making deposits of what appears to be a single ballot delivery. can it be their own? or maybe for a family member in at least some of the cases? what’s the issue here? how is this an equivalent to geter single handedly shoving stacks of ballots that were in a large bag into a ballot box at CITY HALL? I’m not trying to start a debate just trying to understand.
Single ballot delivery? How many Ganim ballots were intercepted and destroyed Sherlock? Don’t even try to spin it the other way now. Keep in mind that ALL of the participants on the Gnomes Camp and Moore Camp have done this for years.
Anyone examined/researched the SEEC database of complaints I’ve filed yet? Anyone seen or heard of John Marshall Lee? How much money did Jaoa or John M. Gomes STEAL from Andre Ayala’s Committees between 2008 and 2016 alone? Show me where he was paid for his duty as treasurer compared to Disbursements he made to Red Rooster [deli, pub, restaurant]?
Come on JML, hire Maria Pereira, she’s excellent at doing research.
again I am not here to debate and I understand that this has been the culture in Bridgeport for years. but sticking to the video footage I just don’t see these as equivalent. In 1 video we see someone shoving tons of ballots into the ballot box about 7 trips During the wee hours of the morning, and the ballots all come from a large bag. And in the other video I see single people hopping out of a car and dropping off what appears to be is about one envelope in their hand. so maybe I am over looking something but can someone point out what I am not seeing in these videos. just don’t see them as equivalent.
Why do you raise my name and suggest that I consult Maria Pereira for research assistance?? Is it because many folks appreciate the “apolitical” approach I generally use to discuss the governance or lack thereof in the City among political practitioners? So, I repeat my comments from yesterday to BRIDGEPORT OPERATION OVERSIGHT (BOO), for those who may not have read it previously.
Corrupt election practices? We are accustomed to “breaking news” with reports that there will be video at 11 PM. In this case the video hit youtube first though not in a comprehensive fashion showing all of the details available from footage shot with public cameras, public observers, and funded with taxpayer money.
So the request from City Attorney John Bohannon to the Judge in charge to keep video footage “private” is not an act of an OPEN, ACCOUNTABLE, TRANSPARENT, and HONEST municipal government, it seems to me.
And the “story telling” by elected members of the City Council that offers the “race card” as an explanation rings untrue and frankly outrageous to me.
When an absentee ballot system can be played by those in power as well as some who wish to replace them in power, it is time for higher authority to come down from on high and open a full review of all of the facts: those we can observe and acknowledge as truthful, and others that are currently hidden from view.
Time is short you may tell me, but for years now, G2 has ignored the Charter directive to report to the City Council annually in September regarding info collected from all Departments, on the state of the City. Frankly, our Charter does not reference, “renter rebates” which are funded and administered by the State of CT annually providing $700-900 to eligible renters who file an application timely. Funds are sent to citizen-renters around Election dates, though applications may be filed from April to fall with the help of State authorized local assistance. Is it interesting that this responsibility and process has been infiltrated for years by Democratic Town Committee members and political leaders who have duties in City Hall involving Seniors and contact with voters.
Yet many eligible claims for “renter rebates” are filed by folks living in HUD housing. Where do they earn rights to democratic process and listening for their problems, issues, and concerns? Where is Park City Community commission and staff responsible and active, or not? Who stands for democratic practice in this City in general? We are urban, yes. And we are a 70% or more minority community. If you believe that “one person, one vote” is important for all, why are people not coming to vote? The vote is your voice. The ballot gives you a choice. Inform yourself. Your ballot will affect current names on the ballot, and actions for years to come. Vote and encourage others including all of the younger folks you know. Change happens every day, but leadership change happens by pluralities won at election time, not by complaining about “the way things are”. Will you vote on November 7? Will that make a difference? Time will tell.
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“And the “story telling” by elected members of the City Council that offers the “race card” as an explanation rings untrue and frankly outrageous to me.”
Are you still a paying member of the NAACP?
Perhaps the “race card” being used by City Council members are the ones you’ve misplaced.
Blah, blah, blah…
Has anyone totaled the questions on this post? Four (4) people liked the post, but none answered a single question.
Stuffed-Gate Continues
Judge Clark has no choice but to eliminate the (Primary ) and go right to the general election and
ban all Drop Boxes in Bridgeport.
Too many Foxes watching the Hen-House-Doors.
From the inside.
Deliberate election fraud, on a massive scale, was the false claim made by the Trump insurrectionists regarding the 2020 election. It was that suspicion of election fraud, by the easily led, emotionally labile Trump supporters that stormed the Capitol and killed Capital police officers, that nearly upended our elected government and nearly upended our very form of government… Political insurrection, instigated by political manipulators/agitators seeking to install an autocratic despot as US dictator, was accomplished by way of playing on the hopes and fears of impressionable, anti-democratic racists/bigots with respect to the illegitimacy of a democratic election, stolen by way of “ballot stuffing,” per the false claim that was refuted by many exhaustive audits of contested voting districts/precincts, nationwide.
The political shenanigans seen — on thousands of hours of official BPD video recordings — by the whole nation, and beyond, depicting the stealing of an election by “ballot stuffing,” plays directly into the political narrative/rationale for violent insurrection/civil war of the racist, far-right factions of our society/electorate, putting the whole nation at political and even physical risk in the next presidential/congressional election cycle. The dangerous, racist, far-right, will say “Look what happened in Bridgeport!”
And we can be sure that they will be citing the demographic statistics of our city when they deride us, the Democratic Party, and democracy in general as they shake their heads and spit verbal bile as they mourn the Trump loss and Democratic sweep in 2024… It won’t matter that the eyes of the nation and the world force a squeaky-clean election. All that will matter is that massive ballot fraud was perpetrated in one failing, DEMOCRAT city, that, in reality, is run/politically-controlled exploitatively by and for the benefit of those that don’t actually live in the city, in order to keep the regional, socioeconomic status quo, and political/economic benefits available for enjoyment by said “absentee landlords” (puns intended)….
So, yes; Bridgeport’s “Ballot Gate” is an “exploding scandal”, per mayoral candidate Daniels observation. But it might also prove to “explosive” — in a more literal sense — in the aftermath of the 2024 elections, if there aren’t thorough investigations, leading to appropriate legal consequences for any wrong-doing discerned thereof, completed in a timely way, by appropriate law enforcement agencies pursuant to a legitimate outcome in the current, Bridgeport mayoral election cycle…
Hit the RESET BUTTON for Bridgeport’s future! Vote for Lamond Daniels for Mayor! (No absentee ballots in his trunk!…)
Spoken like a true plantation Democrat Jeff. The stolen POTUS election couldn’t be proven because key evidence was not allowed to be turned in because judges with no balls were afraid to do the right thing because of the riots occurrying throughtout the Republic because of the Saint George Floyd conspiracy. And you continue to drink the Kool-Aid with the J6 propaganda that an insurrection occurred and police officers died that day. The only person to die that day was an unarmed Ashli Babbitt shot by a trigger happy cop. Let’s not talk about the government plants like Ray Epps who was only charged with a misdemeanor.
But let’s stay on the subject. The Dems, when there’s no Republican candidate to take down in the Shitport do what they do best they turn on each other. And that’s why Shitport is what it is a Shithole city and the taxpayers get what they voted for.
“Deliberate election fraud, on a massive scale, was the false claim made by the Trump insurrectionists regarding the 2020 election.”
It wasn’t a false claim. There is a parallel to this primary in the sense that both sides were doing the same. It was a “massive scale” when considering the fact that both Republicans and Democrats were doing their AB thing.
Looks like we need to re think these drop boxes. I say get rid of them. If we must have them, make them like the new mail boxes that USPS has that take only one envelope at a time.
At the end of the day, it is not about how these ballots are being turned in to the system, it is about how they are being collected. Both side know it’s how you need to play the game in Bridgeport to win. Who serves the better lunch all year round, the picnic’s, the relationships, it is a system. WE need to get this back to baseline, laws need to be followed. It is not fair to folks who stand out in the cold waiting for polls to open at 6 AM , do everything right, and at end of the day it ends up coming down to who got the most ab’s who wins?
Where the hell is that place where people stand in line on the cold before 6 a.m.?
So, you’re saying that had all the people who voted by AB, had instead voted the same way in person, Gomes would have won the machine count?
I’ll be waiting for the next of the many stupid OIB posts.
Most developed nations in the world hold elections on Sundays when it is easier for citizens to vote.
We held election on work days when it is harder for citizens to vote.
Then we whine about absentee ballot problems.
This was a party primary.