Here we go.
The September 12 Democratic primary for mayor is now set. It will be John Gomes against incumbent Joe Ganim.
Lamond Daniels was notified Friday afternoon by elections officials that he had come up a few hundred signatures short of the required 2,033 to join the party, one day after State Senator Marilyn Moore learned the same.
Ganim and Gomes, once allies, sets up a potentially combative battle nearly three weeks from primary day. Gomes supported Ganim’s return to the mayoralty in 2015 and he was promptly rewarded for the effort, named acting chief administrative officer. Gomes backed Ganim again in 2019 but was unhappy with his role in the administration. He was let go about one year ago from city service and it seemed just a matter of time before he would run against his old boss.
Gomes has had mayoral aspirations for more than a decade. He ran for mayor in 2011, but backed out, money and support challenged, to friend Mary-Jane Foster against then incumbent Bill Finch who defeated Foster.
Gomes had also worked in the Finch administration for a few years before he was let go.
Look for tit-for-tat exchanges in the coming weeks between the campaign camps. Gomes will say this about Ganim’s role as mayor and Ganim will parry that pointing out Gomes’ responsibilities in his administration.
The Ganim campaign has already rolled out a media buy highlighting Gomes’ termination from two mayoral administrations and subsequent “vendetta” to seek higher office.
Gomes is fronted by a number of former Ganim supporters such as John Ricci, Maria Pereira and Maria Pires who’ve all had a falling out with with the mayor.
No matter what happens September 12, Ganim and Gomes have appeared to secure ballot spots in the general election: Ganim on the New Movement Party line and Gomes the Bridgeport Independent Party line.
Daniels and Moore are also weighing potential November runs as petitioning candidates.
Lamond! Are you there, Lamond?! HELLLOOO!!!
(from and earlier post)
August 16, 2023 at 7:00 pm
Wow!! There have to be Lamond Daniels moles working in the Ganim and Gomes camps. With the Moore campaign wandering around the Twilight Zone (predictably), led by no-one in particular and supported by Generation Q-primed/Generation Q-primed Votes Absentee, and the Ganim and Gomes campaigns doing a great job exposing each other’s gangrenous tentacles to the Bridgeport electorate, all that Lamond Daniels needs to win in November and become Bridgeport’s next mayor is an appropriate, coherent, comprehensive message, a modicum of effort to get it out to the voting public, and the Working Families endorsement and position on the ballot…
Are you there, Lamond?! (They’re holding the doors to both City Halls open for you!…)
Lennie, you are underplaying and under analyzing the significance of the outcome so far in regards to this primary battle.
Before I forget, let me start with the Youtube video about John Gomes being fired twice. Had Joe Ganim not awarded Gomes with a job for his support against Bill Finch, John Gomes would have been fired only once.
The title here could of should read: Gomes, Finch, Fabrizy, Daniel’s, Moore, Gen Now… vs. Ganim.
What’s at stake here? Not just Joe Ganim’s Political career. You think Gomes, Ricci, Lafitte, and of course Maria Pereira will be satisfied with just defeating Ganim? Control of the DTC is just as important and beneficial to this group of INSURGENTS. For this to happen they MUST take the Bridges and cross them. I’d blow up a few of them if I was involved. Ganim beat Finch because I blew up their Armory. Remember, in Bridgeport, we don’t play softball, we play hand grenades. Rambo is a fictional character. Ramjoel was real. I Will continue later. Stay tuned.
What does Easton and Bridgeport have in common?
They both have no sideways.
On Sept 12 and in November it’s gotta be Gomes for mayor. One could literally smell the reek of desperation in the new video ad above. 1. It reeks of the silent sound of a dog whistle: John Gomes angry … (angry what Joe?). 2. Anyone who reads OIB regularly knows the soon to be ex-mayor was fine with soon to be Mayor Gomes’ job performance up until mention of Mayoral aspirations were touted here and in the mainstream media.
The powers that be will continue to divide and conquer and hope that there will be a largely divided field come November. Ganim has sunk so low and is so scared he has sunken to a potential row E on the ballot. Joe gotta go.
The reek smell of a dead body?
What? For a second, I thought you said: JoSo gotta go.
BREAKING NEWS:
Two weeks ago, I informed OIB that a dead body was found in the parking lot next to The John Gomes for mayor headquarters on East Main Street. It appears the body was that of a Male who may have overdosed while inside a parked car. The body was there for days.
Two days before the Gomes Campaign announced Pereira’s endorsement of Gomes for mayor. There was very little concern, for a very little time in Bridgeport that the body found was that of Maria Pereira.
I said at the time, “I hope Pereira made it out of the Parking.” I have disappointing news for the masses. I saw (through a locked door glass) Maria Pereira yesterday morning. I’m happy to announce that she is in fact alive BUT, she is nastier than the smell of a days dead body.