No matter how you cut it up, there’s always one consistency in the city’s recent history of absentee ballot voting: the East Side 137th District, the epicenter of Latino politics, leads all neighborhoods. Of the more than 1,000 absentee ballots mailed citywide by the Town Clerk’s Office as of Thursday covering 9 of 10 districts […]
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On East Side, Absentee Ballots Rule
September 1st, 2017 · 3 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Council, City Politics
Tags: Aidee Nieves·Hector Diaz·Lydia Martinez·Maria Valle·Milta Feliciano
Mayor Selects Annette Negron To Fill School Board Vacancy, Will It Be Challenged?
July 27th, 2016 · 46 Comments · City Politics, Education, News and Events
Update: Board of Education member Maria Pereira had raised questions in the comments section about back taxes on a Jane Street property owned by Annette Negron. Negron told OIB on Wednesday that she had paid off the back taxes that had been sold to a tax lien company prior to her joining the school board. She […]
Happy Birthday Queenie! An AB-racadbra Cake, Love Speedy Gonzalez
May 4th, 2016 · 6 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, News and Events
Talk about a twisted sense of humor. Former City Councilman Joel “Speedy” Gonzalez takes the cake. Actually, he presented a birthday cake at the office of City Clerk Lydia Martinez, in honor of her long and distinguished reputation as the city’s queen of absentee ballots.
Democratic Political Leadership Shows Male-Dominated Gender Gap
March 21st, 2016 · 49 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics
Bridgeport’s Democratic Party is looking for a few good women in district leadership positions. On March 14, Democratic Town Chair Mario Testa, backed by Mayor Joe Ganim, overwhelmingly won another two-year term as party leader. On the same night the respective members of the 10-district, 90-strong DTC also announced district leaders. All of them are […]
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Mario Wins Another Two Years, Ganim On Prez Election: Don’t Elect ‘Some Crazy On The Republican Side’
March 15th, 2016 · 92 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, National Politics, News and Events
With his ally Mayor Joe Ganim in attendance, Democratic Town Chair Mario Testa Monday night overwhelmingly won another two-year term as party leader defeating newcomer Angel Figueroa who was nominated by party outsider Maria Pereira, a member of the Board of Education. The vote was 81 to 6.
Tags: Bill Finch·Charlie Coviello·Donald Trump·Ernie Newton·Joe Ganim·Lydia Martinez·Maria Pereira·Mario Testa·Tom McCarthy
Finger Politics! Piranha Power Sweeps To Democratic Town Committee Victory
March 2nd, 2016 · 80 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, News and Events
Board of Education member Maria Pereira, Bridgeport’s self-described establishment fighting piranha of politics, reasserted her voter strength in the Upper East Side leading a slate of nine candidates to a sweep in the Democratic Town Committee primary in the 138th District, according to unofficial returns. Tuesday was a night of sweeps in two other districts as […]
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The Race For Tuesday’s Cricket Vote
February 29th, 2016 · 3 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, News and Events
By the time polls close Tuesday at 8 p.m. for Democratic Town Committee primaries in three districts, about 700 electors will have cast votes by absentee ballot which could ensure that more votes will be cast that way in some precincts than actual electors showing up to the polls. That noise you just heard in […]
Tags: Aidee Nieves·Anderson Ayala·Bill Finch·Bob Halstead·Eric Stewart-Alicea·Gabrielle Parisi·Gil Hernandez·Howard Gardner·Joe Ganim·John Olson·John Ricci·Leticia Colon·Lisa "Honey" Parziale·Lydia Martinez·M. Evette Brantley·Maria Pereira·Maria Valle·Mario Testa·Martha Santiago·Tyreke Bird
City Employee Councilors Sayonara, Primary Post Mortem
September 14th, 2017 · 43 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Council, City Politics, News and Events
Primary day has ended, but it’s not over. And even when the primary vote is certified following recounts, there’s the general election in November and then another vote for City Council president in December by peers. And guess what? When the new council meets in December it will do so without a city employee councilor […]
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