City politics is loaded with squirrely characters, flies, maggots and occasionally some given up for dead. It can be odious. So as unpleasant as it was the other day to the nostrils of Mayor Joe Ganim, he has whiffed worse. Still, the squirrel carcasses decomposing in a ceiling panel and behind a desk drawer in his office forced him to the sanctuary of the adjoining mayor’s conference room while the critters were removed and office aired out. No truth to the rumor that the mayor has called in a tax-idermist in light of the city’s budget woes.
The mayor’s office suite is located on the second floor of the Margaret Morton Government Center on Broad Street Downtown. Rather than enjoy the escalator ride, the squirrels apparently cartilaged through an opening in the side of the building along State Street. Or were they a parting plant by outgoing Mayor Bill Finch?
The mayor is pondering a moment of silence on behalf of the squirrels prior to tonight’s special meeting of the City Council. Here’s to Rocket J. Squirrel. “Wave to the people,” Joe!
We have some political skunks, too. Pepe Le Pew!
Squirrels are rodents and highly attracted to available food sources. In that regard these few Bridgeport denizens may have had a nose for NUTS and found their way to Finch’s office. Perhaps all the NUTS are gone. Without a food source they have perished, perhaps.
Of course, why did the smell show up just recently? Did the last administration, favoring green initiatives, encourage its own private menagerie in Morton Center? And NUTS takes me back to the famous answer of WWII General Tony McAuliffe at the Battle of the Bulge when facing a German ultimatum to surrender, “NUTS!”
If the squirrels are neither an example of smelly tricks nor of previous mayoral friends, perhaps the Ganim administration can face the public and announce OPEN, ACCOUNTABLE, TRANSPARENT and HONEST governance activity is alive and well in Bridgeport. Time will tell.
Two dead squirrels accomplished what a living Finch and his whole crew could not. I heard Captain AJ Perez and the Violent Crime Task Force are on the case. Could there be a connection here?
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I’m sure if Mayor Joe orders an autopsy on Rocky J Squirrel and his buddy, he’ll find it very remarkable and odd the squirrel’s last meal came from Beardsley Park!
Then travel over six miles just to see what Mayor Joe had in his office to lunch on? I’m not one to point the finger at anyone (MF) or accuse someone of fowl play, but did anyone notice if Rocky J Squirrel had a flattened head?
Let me see if I’ve got this right.
The squirrels (Rocky and friend) travel from Crown St (Beardsley Park) down Noble Ave to East Washington Ave,
to Washington Ave, south to Lafayette Boulevard, east onto to State St and then up Broad St, then up a flucking broken escalator to Mayor Joe’s office! All the time looking for something to eat! All this with their flucking heads caved in, then die in Mayor Joe’s office desk and ceiling panels. It could happen!!!
With all the new appointments in just the last few days, it is funny this is the news the administration is sharing with Lennie.
Steve,
Happy New Year to you!! Kind of surprised you did not come up with a food or wine pairing with “squirrel carcass” or other types of road kill.
Perhaps the topic impairs your appetite and food reporting. Why do you feel it “funny” (absurd?) for G2 to be sharing this story at this moment rather than further commentary on “new appointments?” How long does it take a squirrel carcass in an enclosed area, presumably dead some time ago, to cause a noticeable “odor?” Anybody? Time will tell.
*** The prior nuts are gone so the remaining critters have apparently been going without and so bit the dust! They left a bit of a stink behind but it’s better than keeping the past fruit/nut cakes around, who used to call the Mayor’s office their workplace, no? *** KEEP ON KEEPING ON, “JOE!” ***
I guess Joe must have forgotten about the Health Dept building he had people working in when he was first mayor. Poor heating, poor AC, poor conditions and bullet holes in the metal doors.
But I guess a couple of dead squirrels in the Mayor’s office trumps all.