Looking at bright spots for Mayor Joe Ganim’s tight primary win over John Gomes there are several areas including the East Side precincts from top to bottom.
A biblical battle took place in the Upper East Side 138th District where City Councilwoman Maria Pereira, a Gomes supporter, is a loud and proud excavator of absentee ballots. More than 500 electors voted by absentee and it was one area the Gomes operation squeezed out more mail-in ballots than Ganim, 303 to 251.
Ganim-backed Council candidates Kevin Monks and Samia Suliman ran solidly on the machines in the Hooker and JFK precincts, but Pereira’s absentee operation put her and running partner Jazmarie Melendez over the top. Pereira finished last among the four with walk-in votes, perhaps a product of the video-captured revelations relating to her entry into the home of an elderly woman to seek her absentee ballot.
(Technically, Pereira-Suliman are within recount range but Pereira’s lead should hold up.)
In the 137th District City Council President Aidee Nieves once again proved her popularity on the East Side both with walk-in votes and absentee ballots that aided Ganim’s victory.
The 139th District is where Ganim ran up large numbers both walk-in and absentee ballots eclipsing Gomes by 200 votes. Incumbent City Councilman Ernie Newton and Eneida Martinez, who will return to the legislative body, led a contingent of East End workers at Dunbar and Harding precincts.
Newton even campaigned in Pereira’s district, an area he represented when serving in the Connecticut legislature.
Newton noted that Pereira’s green card machinations rescued her. If she learned that one of her voters had cast an absentee for Ganim, the mail-in vote is cancelled out by the elector voting at the precinct prior to 10 a.m.
Don’t ya love city politics!
Numbers changed again according to SOTS Ganim lost 48 votes, Gomes lost one. So far changing numbers only on mayors race. The down tickets numbers remain the same. How can any Bridgeport resident have any confidence in the Registrars office and the state? How can Bridgeport residents be assured their vote counts?
Oops forgot the spread is now 251 votes. As if 1:10
Lenny
It’s very interesting that the Gomes camp now want to talk about ABs but said nothing about Maria Pereira going in a senior Citizen’s home looking 👀 for her Absentee ballot. She was caught on camera 🎥 that the family put in place to watch her.First of all no one other than a family member should be going through her mail. Maria is not a family member and she shouldn’t be touching anyone’s mail.We all heard about Maria’s Green card operation. She had many seniors who had already voted by absentee ballot by telling them some kind of B.S lie. Just like they tried to run Harry Carrillo who changed his address twice his last address to mill hill ave a house 🏠 owned by John Ricci. The Gomes camp ⛺️ should be careful . I hear a shoe 👠 will drop soon. I wasn’t on the ballot but I will be in November this was just a tune up bout.
Ernie,
How many ‘BS lies’ have been told this year, and at the majority of City elections to create an “AB culture” in Bridgeport that outdistances those in other similar cities with seemingly captive “vertical neighborhoods” without Tenant Authorities or unions to represent the large number of residents who do not see anyone from Park City Communities or their mayoral appointed board that represents the HUD money coming to the City for thousands of rental units EXCEPT before elections. And it is no level playing field in terms of opportunity for candidates, their representatives, or others to gain access to our neighbors and fellow citizens.
How many locations in the City have you worked at, attempting to get folks in these circumstances forming independent representative organizations to appear before City Boards or Commissions, as well as the City Council, to present their issues regarding rents, unit conditions, or overall safety and security? You see me at Public Speaking sessions commenting on this subject but you never offer any comments, and you know that my comments to the Council always contain questions?
Is it possible and perhaps likely that a resident in such a unit had a trusted relation with Maria P. known to a daughter who held her “legal power of attorney” and aware of facts that concluded in a different way, more favorable to Maria P. than the story reported by OIB?
If it turns out that way, and you apologize, fairness will be served, and that is my purpose in raising this potential. It is the FAIRness absent with your knowledge from City boards and commissions when a series of Democratic mayors, supported by the DTC, neglected their Charter duty to appoint members of the FAIR RENT and FAIR HOUSING Commissions. Fairness? Equal opportunity for representation? Pursuit of justice? Aren’t these important values of quality municipal governance? Why are the majority of the City Council quiet on these matters? Why does the DTC remain silent? Time will tell.
LAMOND!!! HELLO, LAMOND!!! THERE’S AN ELECTION COMING UP AND THERE’S A RUMOR THAT YOU’RE ON THE BALLOT! THE VOTES ARE RIPE AND READY FOR PICKING!! IT’S HARVEST SEASON!!! THEY’RE HOLDING THE DOORS TO BOTH CITY HALLS OPEN FOR YOU!!!
We could be looking at an Electoral Fusion this November to oust Testa and Ganim forever!