Lamond “Daniels is a really good guy”. Had you stopped there Mr. Dawson your comment would have been understandable and fair. But “his backing is the Finch regime” is gibberish. What is “his backing”, what does that even mean? And why was the Finch administration, a regime? Finch wasn’t a convicted felon who serve 7 years in jail and had his law license revoked. Finch wasn’t even the close friend of a convicted felon who served 7 years in jail and had his law license revoked. And the part about “we’ve been there & done that” is a fallacy of logic that assumes Lamond Daniels is the same as Bill Finch. Lamond Daniels is not Bill Finch. Now, admittedly I’m a Daniels supporter (can you tell) but I can still be objective when objectivity is called for and I can defend my positions with facts, logic and reason. I doubt whether you can do the same.
Finch regime: attempted to seize mayoral control of the shook board and take he power from the voters. Big supporter of charter schools over public schools. Supported illegal state takeover of schools.
What’s the “shook” board Joe? I guess you don’t have to pass a literacy test to be on the school board. Your “shook” board has been so dysfunctional at times, I would have suggested a city takeover as an effort to do better also. Sometimes an administration appointed school board is more productive than an elected one. Every situation is different Joe, you have to be able to clearly assess a situation and adjust your decision making accordingly. But most of all Joe, you need to be able to think for yourself and stand up for what you think is right, even if others try to shout you down. And you need to be able to defend your positions with facts and reason. Charter schools is a long and complicated subject but there is evidence that charter schools can be helpful and successful in the urban environment. I understand the arguments against them but too often politics gets in the way of trying to understand what is the good, right and just thing to do.
It’s a blog relax. is your favored candidate in favor of Mayoral control? Is he in support of the inefficient use of tax dollars funding charter schools?
Find anybody to follow your awesome novel plan to turn out new voters, or are you still looking for somewhere to lead?
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Mr. Dawson,
“We’ve been there & done that” as if ‘the Finch regime’ occupies any percent of our attention in recent years. Is Daniels the “only good guy” among the candidates? It seems as if there are many younger and newer voters who have no sense of such a regime.
But we have lived within a G2 autocratic bubble of celebrations with photos, rather than conversations and learning; with G2 getting more attention for personal real estate activities in his off-hours, rather than Charter required nominations to FAIR HOUSING and FAIR RENT Commissions, foreclosing remediation by citizens, with citizen-neighbor members extending back about 15 years; and a G2 unwillingness to expand taxpayer responsibility and accountability to acheive local educational outcomes. (By the way, who among our citizenry swim or have had water safety skills instruction in a City with seashores, rivers and a lake? G2 has acted for pool reduction and no City wide affordable programs beyond ‘splash pads’!!)
We’ve seen the outcomes present currently. Yet there is enough communitysupport for three active campaigns, with enough financial and manpower support, if managed appropriately to engage in door knocking conversations and listening, to make a September primary more than merely interesting. What percentage of the vote by Democrats will support the DTC incumbent? What about the silent vote that awaits the opportunity to vote in November? Is it possible for the majority of voters to gather around one challenging candidate and say to the G1 and G2 regimes, ENOUGH? Time will tell.
Reply to Joe Sokolovic
At least I have a plan, Joe. I’m not sure where Lamond Daniels is on charter schools. Why don’t you ask him? And you evidently didn’t read my comment well because I clearly stated that each situation is different. I’m not for mayoral control overall, I just think that sometimes when the school board is so dysfunctional that some thought should be given to trying something different. I’ll tell you where I stand on Minority Representation though, I’m against it. Without minority representation you wouldn’t be on the board. That’s one good reason to get rid of it right there. And trying to give our kids the best opportunity possible to get a good education, is never an inefficient use of taxpayer dollars.
Where does your candidate stand on any issue? Did you research or throw a dart? I’ve interfaced with Mr. Daniels and all the candidates. I agree that he’s a nice guy. I really Iike him.
Lamond is a nice guy and well qualified and honest. Is your guy honest? The guy you support found it ok to work for a mayor who is a convicted felon and within a corrupt political machine that has been strangling Bridgeport for some 20 years now, doesn’t that say something about his character? Do you always support candidates who find it ok to work for felons and criminals? Where’s his loyalty, is it to the people of the City of Bridgeport or is he just looking out for himself? He seems to have decided to run for mayor because he had a falling out with his boss. That’s not a good reason to run for mayor. Where’s his sense of right and wrong? As a matter of fact, where’s your sense of right and wrong and your judgement in all of this? Convicts and criminals as our leaders, doesn’t seem to bother you, why?
Just not for Mayor. John Gomes and The Senator have roots in the Bridgeport public school system. Gomes just had a child that graduated from our public schools. He edges out Moore in my eyes because he sat through an entire budget forum on education. (As did Daniels) Mr. Gomes will find waste in the city budget (all departments including BOE to be audited) and redirect funds to education. I wanted him to promise a solid dollar amount before I decided but he would not. I respect that he would not make that promise. Politicians are way too quick to over promise and underdeliver.
I think the city audit will uncover enough waste to probably generate a bigger number than I had in mind.
Name one success I’ve had in bettering the City of Bridgeport. (The word city is capitalized Joe, when using it with “of Bridgeport”. Shouldn’t school board members be literate?) One success I’ve had is that I’m not a Republican like you. You represent everything I’m against politically. I could think of few things that make less sense than being a Republican, especially in Bridgeport.
Awesome record. So you are against the following things I stand for?
1. Government transparency I’ve outed Dems and Rep publicly for misbehavior (so you’d hep cover stuff up)
2. Fiscal conservatism only board member to vote against increasing supt salary 12%. (So you’d vote with the Majority in giving away taxpayer dollars?)
3. Created an equity diversity and inclusion committee which has, so far, brought new teacher trainings around DEI, increased minority teacher recruitment, given Eid Al Fitr as a holiday to our Muslim Students to name a few. (Guess you’d strive to keep institutional racism a thing)
I’ll stop now while you gather yourself to find spelling and grammar errors or try to list an accomplishment. Just one.
I already named an accomplishment, I’m not a Republican. The fact that you don’t think that’s important or material is telling of your ability to think clearly. I’ve made several forays into volunteer service to the community within Bridgeport both political and nonpolitical. I speak out on the issues in forums like this one and I’m an honest, law-abiding citizen (that probably doesn’t mean much to you, since you endorse candidates who hang out with convicted felons and criminals). Right now, I’m involved in organizing concerned citizens within a political campaign, to make the City of Bridgeport a better place to live. I’m thinking of running for city council, does that count? I started a Facebook page called Bridgeport in Progress, which I haven’t promoted yet, but it’s there and it’s a start and it shows you where my heart is. I ran an honest and successful business out of my home in Bridgeport for 15 years called Northstar Executive Car Services, which I closed in 2018. It provided a reasonably priced airport service to everyone in Fairfield County. Is that enough for you Joe because the only thing anybody has to do in life, is to be honest, law-abiding citizens and they don’t have to answer to people like you for anything else.
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Long live the voice of “minority representation” on boards and commissions.
Joe, I wasn’t going to respond to your last stupid comment about minority representation because it wasn’t directed at me but you bring up a good point and I think it’s important to speak to because you mentioned something in one of your previous posts that needs to be addressed. You stated that school boards need to be elected instead of appointed by the mayor but minority representation isn’t a democratic process. We may be electing school board members but they are not the people we would elect if we had a choice in the matter. Minority representation foists upon the people of Bridgeport, school board members that they don’t want on their school board. People like you who have nothing in common regarding the values most Bridgeporter’s have, which is Democratic values. For someone who is an anti-government Republican, you sure have taken advantage of the fact that government has taken away our right to freedom of expression in the form of our right to democratically elect our school board members. I guess it’s typical though, that as a Republican you don’t mind being hypocritical as long as you get what you want.
Oh I’m so sorry, I did not know give accomplished so much for our city! Had I realized how great your accomplishments were I’d have nominated you for man of the year. Bridgeport should be glad to have a man as great as you looking out for it. I am in awe of you.
Had I known of your great debate skills I would have never asked you why you support Daniels and started all this. I yield to your superior spelling and grammar skills. I leave you with one question, why do you support Daniels?
Why do I support Lamond Daniels to be the next Mayor of Bridgeport. What I look for in leaders mostly, is honesty and capability. One could be honest but not capable or capable but not honest. You need both qualities to be a good leader. Candidates can say anything and promise anything while they’re only candidates, so I tend to take what candidates say with the proverbial grain of salt. We have four candidates in this race. As I have said on this page repeatedly is that Joe Ganim should not be considered by anybody to be our mayor because of his prior convictions stemming from his first stint as mayor and for the important role he plays within the corrupt political machine that Bridgeport has been captured by, for the last 20 or so years. I don’t trust Joe Ganim and I don’t know how anybody can. He also showed that he’s not learned his lesson or turned a new leaf either because for that, one would have to believe that he had nothing to do with the Chief of Police test scandal. I do believe he had something to do with that disgraceful, embarrassment of an affair and a lot of other people do also. As I’ve said, I don’t know how anybody can trust Joe Ganim. John Gomes was a close friend of Joe Ganim and worked for him and I think that says a lot about the character of John Gomes. Why would anybody who wants the respect of the people of the City of Bridgeport, work for and otherwise support the guy who’s most responsible for the corruption and mismanagement of the City of Bridgeport. You can do that as a career move but not if you’re going to run for office and be asking the people of Bridgeport to trust you. Trust is an important dynamic in why people vote the way they do, I would think. Do you want trustworthy people running your city or crooks running the city. I think the answer is pretty clear on that, for most people anyway. So, for me, John Gomes is not someone who I can trust with taking care of the City of Bridgeport, I don’t care what his campaign promises are. Marilyn Moore is a bit of an enigma. I don’t really know enough about her to make an informed decision on her character or ability to do the job but as with a lot of people I’ve talked to and online opinions by others that I have read, even on this page, she doesn’t impress me. She doesn’t go out of her way to talk directly to the people of the City of Bridgeport about her views on things. I have no idea what she thinks about anything. She screwed up the last election by not getting on the ballot and had to be a write-in candidate. That’s not a good sign of her administrative acumen. I don’t like that she signed a pledge to Gen Now because her loyalty should be to the people of the City of Bridgeport only, not some self-appointed ministers of morality. So, that’s why I wouldn’t vote for Marilyn, which leaves us with Lamond Daniels. I guess I could leave it right there and call it a process of elimination as to why I would vote for Daniels but there’s a lot more to this story than that. As far as I can tell, Lamond Daniels has no political entanglements to deal with or restrain him for doing his job as a professional administrator. He’s well qualified. He has the experience to do the job and as you and many others on this page have said, “he’s a nice guy”. I don’t hear anybody say that about any of the other candidates. He’s likeable and I think that’s an admirable quality in anybody but especially in leadership. People loved Martian Luther King, they loved Bobby Kennedy and they loved Mahama Gandi. Great leaders are loved by a large following of their people. I’m not saying that he is in the same category as any of these people but to me, he does have the potential to be a great leader. If he is elected mayor and if he is compassionate toward the people of this city, he will be loved also. If he does a good job and he’s compassionate, he will be loved by many. I think his upside is a lot higher than any of these other candidates. We don’t know how good a job any of these candidates will do but to me, Lamond Daniels holds the most possibility, over any of these other candidates, to be an excellent mayor for the people of Bridgeport. That’s why I support Lamond Daniels to be the next Mayor of Bridgeport.
Lol, lol, lol. Joe, I knew that line about three of the greatest leaders and humanitarians ever to walk the face of the earth would draw the fire of my harshest critics. As the writer, I should have explained that comparison in more detail. Most great leaders have many similar qualities, even when they don’t rise to the level and stature of acclaim that these three did. Honesty, capability, selflessness, compassion, empathy, a genuine desire to help improve the lives of people and a belief and a desire to attain social and economic justice for all people. These are some of the major qualities of all great leaders, from those who operate on the global stage to small town mayors. The three acclaimed leaders that I mentioned are my personal heroes. They aren’t everybody’s personal heroes but they are mine and I’ll never be ashamed of pointing to them as the standard of great leadership. I read over that line more than 10 times, trying to decide if the statement was over the top and I decided that it was not, as I did qualify it by saying, I wasn’t comparing Lamond to them. My point was that Lamond Daniels has many of the qualities of good leadership and as such, I think that he would be a good choice for mayor. My point in critiquing the other candidates is that this is a contest and as such, we need to compare the four and decide who we prefer best. I did that and I decided that Lamond Daniels was the best choice to be mayor of Bridgeport. As I said in a previous comment, no one knows how any of these people will fare if elected but Daniels is the total package as far as I can see. A proven professional, great resume, well qualified, solid experience, pleasant personality, even tempered personality, no obvious political entanglements, few negatives and he wants the job. He’s arguably the most qualified candidate in this race. He used to be a clinical social worker, he’s an adjunct college professor at Housatonic Community College and he is presently a city administrator in Norwalk. He’s very well qualified for the job, more than any other candidate in this race as far as I can see. It’s hard to get good people to run for office in this political environment, in Bridgeport. I talked to Lamond also Joe and he agrees with me that there is a need to create a pipeline of well qualified candidates to run for office in Bridgeport. Now, whether that’s a reformed and remade Democratic Town Committee or a grassroots organization of concerned citizens or both, he realizes that whoever is mayor of Bridgeport will need a well-qualified, well-functioning city council and a well-functioning DTC in order to get anything of lasting value done in Bridgeport. I don’t hear any of the other candidates talking about that. So, whether as a social worker, a college instructor or a city administrator, Lamond Daniels has always been in the business of helping people. What more does anybody want in a mayor other than a well-qualified, well experienced, proven professional with few negatives?
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The quality of leaders the mojority of us would like to have representing us does not exist. They can only be found in El Salvador. I got my passport ready.
Sorry (not sorry), but anyone trying to pin Daniels to Finch is reaching so hard. Daniels is what? 29 turning 30? So, as a 21 year old in 2015, Daniels had powers that affected how things go in a mayoral administration?
That’s like saying a congressional or white house intern can affect policy and how our Federal government is run.
GTFOutta here with that. What an absolute joke.
Don’t know who “Antonio Dawson” is, but that’s an absolute clownish comment. And ignorant as all get-out. Shameful, desperate, and pathetic.
Mr. Daniels is a really good guy, that said his backing is the Finch regime & we’ve been there & done that.
Lamond “Daniels is a really good guy”. Had you stopped there Mr. Dawson your comment would have been understandable and fair. But “his backing is the Finch regime” is gibberish. What is “his backing”, what does that even mean? And why was the Finch administration, a regime? Finch wasn’t a convicted felon who serve 7 years in jail and had his law license revoked. Finch wasn’t even the close friend of a convicted felon who served 7 years in jail and had his law license revoked. And the part about “we’ve been there & done that” is a fallacy of logic that assumes Lamond Daniels is the same as Bill Finch. Lamond Daniels is not Bill Finch. Now, admittedly I’m a Daniels supporter (can you tell) but I can still be objective when objectivity is called for and I can defend my positions with facts, logic and reason. I doubt whether you can do the same.
Finch regime: attempted to seize mayoral control of the shook board and take he power from the voters. Big supporter of charter schools over public schools. Supported illegal state takeover of schools.
What’s the “shook” board Joe? I guess you don’t have to pass a literacy test to be on the school board. Your “shook” board has been so dysfunctional at times, I would have suggested a city takeover as an effort to do better also. Sometimes an administration appointed school board is more productive than an elected one. Every situation is different Joe, you have to be able to clearly assess a situation and adjust your decision making accordingly. But most of all Joe, you need to be able to think for yourself and stand up for what you think is right, even if others try to shout you down. And you need to be able to defend your positions with facts and reason. Charter schools is a long and complicated subject but there is evidence that charter schools can be helpful and successful in the urban environment. I understand the arguments against them but too often politics gets in the way of trying to understand what is the good, right and just thing to do.
It’s a blog relax. is your favored candidate in favor of Mayoral control? Is he in support of the inefficient use of tax dollars funding charter schools?
Find anybody to follow your awesome novel plan to turn out new voters, or are you still looking for somewhere to lead?
Mr. Dawson,
“We’ve been there & done that” as if ‘the Finch regime’ occupies any percent of our attention in recent years. Is Daniels the “only good guy” among the candidates? It seems as if there are many younger and newer voters who have no sense of such a regime.
But we have lived within a G2 autocratic bubble of celebrations with photos, rather than conversations and learning; with G2 getting more attention for personal real estate activities in his off-hours, rather than Charter required nominations to FAIR HOUSING and FAIR RENT Commissions, foreclosing remediation by citizens, with citizen-neighbor members extending back about 15 years; and a G2 unwillingness to expand taxpayer responsibility and accountability to acheive local educational outcomes. (By the way, who among our citizenry swim or have had water safety skills instruction in a City with seashores, rivers and a lake? G2 has acted for pool reduction and no City wide affordable programs beyond ‘splash pads’!!)
We’ve seen the outcomes present currently. Yet there is enough communitysupport for three active campaigns, with enough financial and manpower support, if managed appropriately to engage in door knocking conversations and listening, to make a September primary more than merely interesting. What percentage of the vote by Democrats will support the DTC incumbent? What about the silent vote that awaits the opportunity to vote in November? Is it possible for the majority of voters to gather around one challenging candidate and say to the G1 and G2 regimes, ENOUGH? Time will tell.
Reply to Joe Sokolovic
At least I have a plan, Joe. I’m not sure where Lamond Daniels is on charter schools. Why don’t you ask him? And you evidently didn’t read my comment well because I clearly stated that each situation is different. I’m not for mayoral control overall, I just think that sometimes when the school board is so dysfunctional that some thought should be given to trying something different. I’ll tell you where I stand on Minority Representation though, I’m against it. Without minority representation you wouldn’t be on the board. That’s one good reason to get rid of it right there. And trying to give our kids the best opportunity possible to get a good education, is never an inefficient use of taxpayer dollars.
Where does your candidate stand on any issue? Did you research or throw a dart? I’ve interfaced with Mr. Daniels and all the candidates. I agree that he’s a nice guy. I really Iike him.
Lamond is a nice guy and well qualified and honest. Is your guy honest? The guy you support found it ok to work for a mayor who is a convicted felon and within a corrupt political machine that has been strangling Bridgeport for some 20 years now, doesn’t that say something about his character? Do you always support candidates who find it ok to work for felons and criminals? Where’s his loyalty, is it to the people of the City of Bridgeport or is he just looking out for himself? He seems to have decided to run for mayor because he had a falling out with his boss. That’s not a good reason to run for mayor. Where’s his sense of right and wrong? As a matter of fact, where’s your sense of right and wrong and your judgement in all of this? Convicts and criminals as our leaders, doesn’t seem to bother you, why?
Just not for Mayor. John Gomes and The Senator have roots in the Bridgeport public school system. Gomes just had a child that graduated from our public schools. He edges out Moore in my eyes because he sat through an entire budget forum on education. (As did Daniels) Mr. Gomes will find waste in the city budget (all departments including BOE to be audited) and redirect funds to education. I wanted him to promise a solid dollar amount before I decided but he would not. I respect that he would not make that promise. Politicians are way too quick to over promise and underdeliver.
I think the city audit will uncover enough waste to probably generate a bigger number than I had in mind.
Let’s compare life accomplishments. Let’s keep it political. You start. Name one success you ever had in bettering the city of Bridgeport.
Name one success I’ve had in bettering the City of Bridgeport. (The word city is capitalized Joe, when using it with “of Bridgeport”. Shouldn’t school board members be literate?) One success I’ve had is that I’m not a Republican like you. You represent everything I’m against politically. I could think of few things that make less sense than being a Republican, especially in Bridgeport.
Awesome record. So you are against the following things I stand for?
1. Government transparency I’ve outed Dems and Rep publicly for misbehavior (so you’d hep cover stuff up)
2. Fiscal conservatism only board member to vote against increasing supt salary 12%. (So you’d vote with the Majority in giving away taxpayer dollars?)
3. Created an equity diversity and inclusion committee which has, so far, brought new teacher trainings around DEI, increased minority teacher recruitment, given Eid Al Fitr as a holiday to our Muslim Students to name a few. (Guess you’d strive to keep institutional racism a thing)
I’ll stop now while you gather yourself to find spelling and grammar errors or try to list an accomplishment. Just one.
I already named an accomplishment, I’m not a Republican. The fact that you don’t think that’s important or material is telling of your ability to think clearly. I’ve made several forays into volunteer service to the community within Bridgeport both political and nonpolitical. I speak out on the issues in forums like this one and I’m an honest, law-abiding citizen (that probably doesn’t mean much to you, since you endorse candidates who hang out with convicted felons and criminals). Right now, I’m involved in organizing concerned citizens within a political campaign, to make the City of Bridgeport a better place to live. I’m thinking of running for city council, does that count? I started a Facebook page called Bridgeport in Progress, which I haven’t promoted yet, but it’s there and it’s a start and it shows you where my heart is. I ran an honest and successful business out of my home in Bridgeport for 15 years called Northstar Executive Car Services, which I closed in 2018. It provided a reasonably priced airport service to everyone in Fairfield County. Is that enough for you Joe because the only thing anybody has to do in life, is to be honest, law-abiding citizens and they don’t have to answer to people like you for anything else.
Long live the voice of “minority representation” on boards and commissions.
Joe, I wasn’t going to respond to your last stupid comment about minority representation because it wasn’t directed at me but you bring up a good point and I think it’s important to speak to because you mentioned something in one of your previous posts that needs to be addressed. You stated that school boards need to be elected instead of appointed by the mayor but minority representation isn’t a democratic process. We may be electing school board members but they are not the people we would elect if we had a choice in the matter. Minority representation foists upon the people of Bridgeport, school board members that they don’t want on their school board. People like you who have nothing in common regarding the values most Bridgeporter’s have, which is Democratic values. For someone who is an anti-government Republican, you sure have taken advantage of the fact that government has taken away our right to freedom of expression in the form of our right to democratically elect our school board members. I guess it’s typical though, that as a Republican you don’t mind being hypocritical as long as you get what you want.
Responding to both:
Oh I’m so sorry, I did not know give accomplished so much for our city! Had I realized how great your accomplishments were I’d have nominated you for man of the year. Bridgeport should be glad to have a man as great as you looking out for it. I am in awe of you.
Had I known of your great debate skills I would have never asked you why you support Daniels and started all this. I yield to your superior spelling and grammar skills. I leave you with one question, why do you support Daniels?
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Why do I support Lamond Daniels to be the next Mayor of Bridgeport. What I look for in leaders mostly, is honesty and capability. One could be honest but not capable or capable but not honest. You need both qualities to be a good leader. Candidates can say anything and promise anything while they’re only candidates, so I tend to take what candidates say with the proverbial grain of salt. We have four candidates in this race. As I have said on this page repeatedly is that Joe Ganim should not be considered by anybody to be our mayor because of his prior convictions stemming from his first stint as mayor and for the important role he plays within the corrupt political machine that Bridgeport has been captured by, for the last 20 or so years. I don’t trust Joe Ganim and I don’t know how anybody can. He also showed that he’s not learned his lesson or turned a new leaf either because for that, one would have to believe that he had nothing to do with the Chief of Police test scandal. I do believe he had something to do with that disgraceful, embarrassment of an affair and a lot of other people do also. As I’ve said, I don’t know how anybody can trust Joe Ganim. John Gomes was a close friend of Joe Ganim and worked for him and I think that says a lot about the character of John Gomes. Why would anybody who wants the respect of the people of the City of Bridgeport, work for and otherwise support the guy who’s most responsible for the corruption and mismanagement of the City of Bridgeport. You can do that as a career move but not if you’re going to run for office and be asking the people of Bridgeport to trust you. Trust is an important dynamic in why people vote the way they do, I would think. Do you want trustworthy people running your city or crooks running the city. I think the answer is pretty clear on that, for most people anyway. So, for me, John Gomes is not someone who I can trust with taking care of the City of Bridgeport, I don’t care what his campaign promises are. Marilyn Moore is a bit of an enigma. I don’t really know enough about her to make an informed decision on her character or ability to do the job but as with a lot of people I’ve talked to and online opinions by others that I have read, even on this page, she doesn’t impress me. She doesn’t go out of her way to talk directly to the people of the City of Bridgeport about her views on things. I have no idea what she thinks about anything. She screwed up the last election by not getting on the ballot and had to be a write-in candidate. That’s not a good sign of her administrative acumen. I don’t like that she signed a pledge to Gen Now because her loyalty should be to the people of the City of Bridgeport only, not some self-appointed ministers of morality. So, that’s why I wouldn’t vote for Marilyn, which leaves us with Lamond Daniels. I guess I could leave it right there and call it a process of elimination as to why I would vote for Daniels but there’s a lot more to this story than that. As far as I can tell, Lamond Daniels has no political entanglements to deal with or restrain him for doing his job as a professional administrator. He’s well qualified. He has the experience to do the job and as you and many others on this page have said, “he’s a nice guy”. I don’t hear anybody say that about any of the other candidates. He’s likeable and I think that’s an admirable quality in anybody but especially in leadership. People loved Martian Luther King, they loved Bobby Kennedy and they loved Mahama Gandi. Great leaders are loved by a large following of their people. I’m not saying that he is in the same category as any of these people but to me, he does have the potential to be a great leader. If he is elected mayor and if he is compassionate toward the people of this city, he will be loved also. If he does a good job and he’s compassionate, he will be loved by many. I think his upside is a lot higher than any of these other candidates. We don’t know how good a job any of these candidates will do but to me, Lamond Daniels holds the most possibility, over any of these other candidates, to be an excellent mayor for the people of Bridgeport. That’s why I support Lamond Daniels to be the next Mayor of Bridgeport.
Lot’s of why not to vote for everyone else, lots of ifs and comparisons, even to Kennedy and Ghandi (didn’t know them but he’s no Kennedy or Gahndi).
I can’t speak to how he compares to the Martian King guy though, other than I’ve never heard of him until recently.
Lol, lol, lol. Joe, I knew that line about three of the greatest leaders and humanitarians ever to walk the face of the earth would draw the fire of my harshest critics. As the writer, I should have explained that comparison in more detail. Most great leaders have many similar qualities, even when they don’t rise to the level and stature of acclaim that these three did. Honesty, capability, selflessness, compassion, empathy, a genuine desire to help improve the lives of people and a belief and a desire to attain social and economic justice for all people. These are some of the major qualities of all great leaders, from those who operate on the global stage to small town mayors. The three acclaimed leaders that I mentioned are my personal heroes. They aren’t everybody’s personal heroes but they are mine and I’ll never be ashamed of pointing to them as the standard of great leadership. I read over that line more than 10 times, trying to decide if the statement was over the top and I decided that it was not, as I did qualify it by saying, I wasn’t comparing Lamond to them. My point was that Lamond Daniels has many of the qualities of good leadership and as such, I think that he would be a good choice for mayor. My point in critiquing the other candidates is that this is a contest and as such, we need to compare the four and decide who we prefer best. I did that and I decided that Lamond Daniels was the best choice to be mayor of Bridgeport. As I said in a previous comment, no one knows how any of these people will fare if elected but Daniels is the total package as far as I can see. A proven professional, great resume, well qualified, solid experience, pleasant personality, even tempered personality, no obvious political entanglements, few negatives and he wants the job. He’s arguably the most qualified candidate in this race. He used to be a clinical social worker, he’s an adjunct college professor at Housatonic Community College and he is presently a city administrator in Norwalk. He’s very well qualified for the job, more than any other candidate in this race as far as I can see. It’s hard to get good people to run for office in this political environment, in Bridgeport. I talked to Lamond also Joe and he agrees with me that there is a need to create a pipeline of well qualified candidates to run for office in Bridgeport. Now, whether that’s a reformed and remade Democratic Town Committee or a grassroots organization of concerned citizens or both, he realizes that whoever is mayor of Bridgeport will need a well-qualified, well-functioning city council and a well-functioning DTC in order to get anything of lasting value done in Bridgeport. I don’t hear any of the other candidates talking about that. So, whether as a social worker, a college instructor or a city administrator, Lamond Daniels has always been in the business of helping people. What more does anybody want in a mayor other than a well-qualified, well experienced, proven professional with few negatives?
The quality of leaders the mojority of us would like to have representing us does not exist. They can only be found in El Salvador. I got my passport ready.
Sorry (not sorry), but anyone trying to pin Daniels to Finch is reaching so hard. Daniels is what? 29 turning 30? So, as a 21 year old in 2015, Daniels had powers that affected how things go in a mayoral administration?
That’s like saying a congressional or white house intern can affect policy and how our Federal government is run.
GTFOutta here with that. What an absolute joke.
Don’t know who “Antonio Dawson” is, but that’s an absolute clownish comment. And ignorant as all get-out. Shameful, desperate, and pathetic.