Captured on video stuffing absentee ballots into drop boxes, arrested for alleged election law violations stemming from 2019 election, scalping Bridgeport taxpayers of thousands of dollars by registering cars in lower-taxed Shelton, allegations of abusing curbside voting, shouting at a Fairfield cop during a traffic stop: “Do you know who I am?” and now a new complaint against City Councilman Alfredo Castillo accusing him of prevailing upon a non-citizen to register to vote and casting her absentee ballot.
This drew a response from Republican State Senator Rob Sampson who sits on the Government Administration and Elections Committee:
Sen. Rob Sampson, Ranking Senator on the Government Administration and Elections Committee, issued the following statement regarding a newly unsealed complaint which alleges that a Bridgeport city councilman convinced a woman who is not a United States citizen to illegally register to vote in 2023 and persuaded her to apply for an absentee ballot that he cast for her.
“When will one-party rule Connecticut Democrats at our State Capitol admit and acknowledge what the rest of the state sees?
And by the way: it’s not just a ‘Bridgeport Problem’. You can bet it’s been happening in other municipalities.
We need reform in Connecticut’s absentee voting process. Republicans and I have been shouting from the rooftops about this for a long time prior to the viral Bridgeport ballot stuffing videos which made Connecticut a national embarrassment.
Now, we have this news.
Are you sick of seeing it?
Then, as you head to the polls to vote, consider how Connecticut Democrats have shown zero interest in ensuring election integrity and have repeatedly voted ‘no’ on Republicans’ common sense ideas to fix this obviously broken system.
Absolutely nothing will change in Connecticut if you keep voting for Democrats.
The power to create change is in your hands.
Borders and election integrity: Two very important reasons to vote for Republicans!”
Why is the Mayor not calling on Castillo and Enida Martinez to resign from the Council. They have been convicted of breaking laws (and accused of breaking still more laws) such that the reputation of the Bridgeport City Council is approaching a sanitary-waste level… It’s time for the Mayor to take a stand and call for their resignations. Ditto for the City Council President and Democratic Party Chair.
The presence Castillo and Martinez on the Council hurts Bridgeport. Castillo and Martinez must RESIGN NOW!
(And so on for the other ballot stuffers caught in the act on video in 2023…)
Jeff,I agree,but it won’t happen…
Can you picture it?…
1.Joe ask Castillo to step down.
2.After an investigation,the State finds Castillo guilty of Absentee irregularities.
3. He is arrested and starts to talk in an attempt for a lesser sentence.
Mario, Joe etc,don’t need that headline..
Your vote doesn’t matter anymore, the Bridgeportcrats keep stealing it with every passing election. When these Fluckers start going to jail and Mario drops dead maybe we’ll get it back?
No one asks Senator Sampson, Republican, who represents towns in the Greater Waterbury area, why if he has been so concerned with “election integrity” for years, he has not appeared in Bridgeport to speak about Republicanism and what it can do for the City. At a time when he is running for State office, his website does not identify the party standard bearer, does it? Bridgeport has election issues, but none, in my opinion are larger than that 50,000 eligible and registered voters DO NOT VOTE regularly.
Are they informed, even to the extent of knowing their Council District representative?
What is their priority issue locally?
Do they know their State Assemblyperson and the issue they are known for?
How about, who is running in CT for Congress and the Senate?
Perhaps they have a notion that this is a Presidential election, and have a person for whom they will cast their one ballot, along with you, me, and millions of others. Doesn’t that process unite us? Time will tell.
Alfredo Castillo is a disgrace to the City Council. He needs to step down now. He defrauded the taxpayers of the city of Bridgeport. Wait until the insurance company finds out about his insurance fraud. He is one step away from a colorful jumpsuit
That was a reply to the article not JML