If you want to pour a cup of ambition in search of a job, Bridgeport’s first Starbucks, expected to open this fall at the Steelpointe Harbor redevelopment area on the East Side, is looking for employees. Starbucks in Fairfield conducted a hiring event for the city store this week. More info www.starbucks.com/careers or newyork.craigslist.org/fct/ret/5099639362.html.
More from city Communications Director Brett Broesder:
“After decades of broken promises, it’s finally happening. Steelpointe Harbor will serve as a major boon for the city’s economy,” said Mayor Finch. “Top-notch businesses are coming to Steelpointe Harbor. These companies will create good paying jobs, and will help attract even more businesses to the state’s largest city. Bridgeport is getting better every day. And, job creators from across the country like Starbucks are taking note.”
The company’s decision for its new location says great things about Bridgeport’s success as an up and coming city, and could mean even more for its future. According to a study done by Zillow, Starbucks uses a strict strategy to determine the locations that will offer the most to their business, proving that Bridgeport has a lot to offer.
The incoming store will also help Bridgeport on its path to success, as Starbucks locations have been shown to lead to development and increased property value.
“Between 1997 and 2014, homes within a quarter-mile of a Starbucks increased in value by 96 percent, on average, compared with 65 percent for all U.S. homes,” according to the Zillow study.
Starbucks’ search for new employees can also serve as a great job opportunity for residents.
In addition to the benefits and coffee discounts, Starbucks offers a welcoming and enjoyable work environment for their employees—part of this is their history of creating a diverse workforce.
Their website explains why, “At Starbucks, we strive to create a culture that values and respects diversity and inclusion. Our welcoming work environment encourages partners to engage and make Starbucks a place they look forward to working each day.”
Starbucks is also joined by Bass Pro Shops, T-Mobile, Chipotle and Cineopolis, a luxury movie theater complex, are among the first tenants announced at Bridgeport’s Steelpointe Harbor Development Project.
Once complete, Steelpointe Harbor will be a 2 million-square-foot superregional waterfront destination.
Spanning 82 acres, it will feature more than 750,000 square feet of retail, restaurants and entertainment, a 12-screen premium theater, two hotels, 1,100 mid-and-high rise residential units, 30,000 square feet of office and a 200-slip, full service, deep water marina.
Please, please put a Starbucks near my house so its value will increase by 96% and I can get the hell out of here. BTW, please have the tooth fairy stop by.
There are no homes within a quarter mile of this Starbucks so it will have no effect on home values. Just wait for what this will mean for the morning commute when people hop on and off 95 to get coffee. East Main will be backed up and the cars merging onto 95 will be a mess.
Just what the people of the East Side need, a $5 cup of coffee. The hiring event was held in Fairfield, just what the people of the East Side need, a $5 cup of coffee poured by a Fairfield resident. Typical Finch practice, hiring suburbanites. Bridgeport is getting better every day, just as long as you don’t live here.
The event was held at the closest Starbucks; stop seeing conspiracies everywhere.
Mr. Day,
Starbucks is a business. It was not built to serve only the residents of the East Side. I prefer McDonalds, $1.06 for a medium. I do not like Starbucks coffee but they certainly have a strong following. You know the Mayor is not part of the hiring practices of this business. To suggest any Mayor has a say is absolutely ridiculous. Accepting applications for these positions six months in advance does seem silly but with the improving economy and Bass Pro opening I guess there will be a lot of demand for retail workers. I suppose that is a good thing between the Theaters, Bass Pro, Starbucks, Chipotle and Verizon not to mention the other huge announcements to be made. This is great news!
Steven, that in itself is part of the problem “you know the mayor is not part of the hiring practices …” he or whoever negotiated any of the deals that call for tax abatements etc. has a fiduciary obligation to include the hiring of area residents. When Bass Pro decides it won’t hire anyone from Bridgeport “other than those selected by their friends,” will this be the same argument used?
You want to know where the power is? Ask your candidate about the “BOND COUNCIL.” I know the current administration will continue with Stafstrom, Mary-Jane has worked alongside Stafstrom in TWO recent elections and honestly I haven’t spoken to Joe about it, it would be eye-opening for some, I’m sure.
Hector, remember Stafstrom and Ganim were friends and Stafstrom’s wife/husband Murphy was a key adviser for Ganim back in the day.
Stafstrom’s husband, he is a man. Is that difficult for you, Andy?
Andy, his answer might be eye-opening to me also.
I wasn’t sure who was which in that twosome. If you are upset, TS.
This is a real Star Yuck!
Wow!!! Things are booming in Bridgeport. 100 future part-time, no-benefit jobs at Steal Point!!! Now we only need about $12 Billion more in taxable development and 30,000 living-wage jobs to make us viable again.
Way to go, Bill! We’re almost back!
(Oh boy! A Starbucks on the waterfront that’s part of a 52-acre waterfront parking-lot strip mall! Just what every dying city needs! It brings us about .083% back to where we need to be–and it’s only using 52 waterfront acres to do it! Brilliant!! Go get ’em, David! Say Amen! Brett and Maryli!)
Jeff, is there a candidate you are supporting? Are you waiting for the masses to ask you to run like Joe Ganim? I usually get your posts, lately they all sound so terribly bleak. I am curious as to which candidate, other than Mayor Finch, has earned your support.
I’ve talked to numerous people and not one had heard they were hiring. I guess the only way you here about this is go to Fairfield. What a piss-poor way to hire for Bridgeport. I can assure you most of the baristas will be suburban whites and the clean-up people will be people of color. I’ve been in America a long time and I’ve seen the face of bigotry up close and personal and I’m looking at it with this endeavor. Conspiracy, my ass.
Donald, do me a favor and go to the Post Road Starbucks and the Starbucks on Black Rock turnpike. You might be surprised by the composition of the staff.
Starbucks should post the job openings at the workplace in downtown Bridgeport so Bridgeport residents could apply. I agree, most of the employees will come from Fairfield and spend their money in Fairfield.
This Starbucks hiring event could have easily been held in Housatonic or the Burroughs Library. Once again, completely insulting and disrespectful to Bridgeport residents.
Maria, for every Home Depot we opened we took applications at other stores. Every company has a website and everyone who reads the paper knew they were opening. Bridgeporters work in retail in Westport and Fairfield. I know because I know them from Central and Bassick. Maria and Donald Day, just cut the crap already. You both sound silly. Maria, you have been in retail. Other than job fairs, where did your company go? I used to recruit at Housatonic. When the economy is booming, help is hard to find. I have hired and fired over 1000 people as the Administrative Manager at Home Depot in Bridgeport, Orange, Fairfield and Derby and I can assure you, there is no conspiracy here.
Steve, in my over 20 years in retail management we only hired individuals who applied at that specific location. The Department of Labor required all applications be kept on file for a six-month period.
A large sign should have been posted at Stealpoint. In addition, a billboard, fliers, a radio ad., etc. would have all worked well to promote a hiring fair at Housatonic or the Burroughs Library.
Can you say gentrification?
I can say gentrification, I pray daily for gentrification and Starbucks did not need to do any of those things you are suggesting. You sound ridiculous. Maybe you should go to every business in the city and suggest how they should handle their hiring practices. Bridgeport was meant to be the Jewel of Fairfield county. Certainly you are not suggesting Joe Ganim does not want to gentrify the city? Please make it clear. Maria, I’d suggest you save the gentrification propaganda for a selective audience. Homeowners and taxpayers have invested in these poorer underserved areas believing one day Bridgeport will come back. Well it is beginning and happening under Finch. Why wouldn’t Ganim and Foster want to be the Mayor at this stage? The light is clear at the end of the tunnel.
Steve, can you tell me where large groups of white families were displaced by gentrification?
Ron Mackey–Mary-Jane Foster supporter
Maria Pereira–Joe Ganim supporter
Gentrification is bad and a vote for these two candidates will keep Bridgeport neighborhoods depressed and abandoned. I guess we know where you stand. Let’s let the urban blight disease run throughout the North End and Black Rock. Let Bridgeport become a true welfare city of hopelessness and despair. Let Black Rock residents paying $40,000 a year in taxes continue paying without any hope of other sections of the city carrying their fair share.
Ron Mackey, I cannot continue discussing black horror stories. My neighbors are black and want gentrification. If your candidates want to keep Bridgeport as an undeveloped garbage-strewn city catering only to poor third-generation welfare recipients, then I want to know when the taxpayer will get relief.
Steve,
Did you really think this through all by yourself and then say it? “Let Black rock residents paying $40,000 a year in taxes continue paying without any hope of other sections of the city carrying their fair share.”
What variety of stimulant/depressant caused you to make this statement? Currently, because of the 2013 revaluation completed and funded with $300,000 of taxpayer funds, it is likely more than true many of my neighbors are paying less of the current budget needs, and that means other neighborhoods are paying more, including neighborhoods where the average house value is less than my neighborhood. Are you aware of that strong possibility or likelihood, Steve? And that is why Bill Finch has kept the results under wraps and conspired to have a “re-do” at taxpayer expense in 2015.
Good financial management? NO.
Squeezing efficiency out of every dollar? NO.
Afraid of the fiscal message to the public who vote in great numbers if they saw the 2013 results? YES.
Taking the coward’s way out of the dilemma? YES.
Time will tell.
Depressed neighborhoods should be improved for those who already live there, not so those who currently live there can be pushed out to make room for white yuppies.
Steve, you’re doing the right thing and run away from my question too about “gentrification” because you don’t have an answer. Try reading about Robert Moses and gentrification.
From The Atlantic (June, 27):
And most residents are able to stay. Freeman’s 2004 study with economist Frank Braconi found that low-income African Americans are actually more likely to remain in gentrifying neighborhoods than stagnant ones. “Much to my surprise, our research findings did not show evidence of a causal relationship between gentrification and displacement,” he writes in his book, There Goes the Hood. “That similar results were found in a study in Boston (Vigdor 2002) served to suggest further that perhaps we were onto something.” Freeman’s latest paper concludes that “white invasion could play a significant role in the decline of the ghetto.”
Such findings are building up. A 2013 study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland found that low-income residents gained from gentrification.
Bridgeport Rising, thank you for doing the research and not allowing the negative scare mongers emerge as the saviors of the most depressed areas of the city.
I have hired and fired over 1,000 human beings as administrative manager at Home Depot. And then what, they fired you?
And that’s the corporate mentality you admire?
Bob, did you know there is a full-length photo of myself with Home Depot owners at the time Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank? I loved that company but after 11 years it was enough. Four hours of sleep with undiagnosed sleep apnea left me with chronic fatigue. But still more energy than most on this blog of the walking dead. 🙂
To assume the Mayor should be involved with the hiring of six Starbucks employees makes you sound like an ass, As I have said Bob, you represent MJF very well. Keep up the good work! At what point are you going to throw in the towel and support Rick Torres?
Steve, you are one of the major mentally dead on this blog, just re-read the shit you write which for the most part is BS and untruths.
Steve,
It is not about Starbucks, it is about the city of Bridgeport. Obviously Tax Bill did not care enough about Bridgeport residents to ensure equal footing for employment opportunities. Or maybe he was told to butt out.
Bob, just for the record, I absolutely believe Bridgeporters should be getting the jobs. I would like East End residents working at some of these sites. I would like Ron Mackey and Donald Day and the East End churches to set up workshops for these people to learn how to fill out an application and take an interview. I do not think a six-man operation needs Mayoral intervention. If you do, then I respectfully disagree.
The State delegation from Bridgeport consists of seven, they damned sure could use some “capable” mayoral intervention.
Steve–If this mayor is one of the few, and maybe the only, mayors in the country to hold a press conference to announce the coming of a Starbucks, why wouldn’t he assume some leadership or advocacy role role in their hiring preferences?
For six part-time positions? Because he is the Mayor of the largest city in the state. Do you really believe there will not be city employees there? Is this really what you are taking to the streets?
Come Back Bridgeport, do I know you? I get the impression you know me well.
You are a patronizing bastard and an ignorant mofo. What makes you think anyone from the East End needs help filling out an application? Oh I know, it’s predominately blacks and Latinos and God knows they are too dumb to be able to do that themselves. Fuck you, you bigot.
Donald Day, I did not say any of that, you did. I suggested maybe if your community banded together and lent a helping hand instead of suggesting these companies go out of their way to serve your personal agenda rather than their own. I did not swear at you. I didn’t call you a bigot. I did mot mention a word about blacks or Latinos. I suggested community involvement to help these residents get a job. Ladies and gentleman, I give you another positive face of the Mary-Jane Foster campaign. Negative, abusive with his own personal agenda representing a woman I do not even recognize. Ronald Mackey, people in your black-centric world do not talk to me like that, even when you try to incorporate Latinos. To a man like you, Latinos may as well be white. Mary-Jane is white. Did you know that? You are an abusive fool but alas, keep it coming. I love the picture you attempt to paint of me. It is laughable.
Donald Day, what you should have said was, Steven Auerbach, that was a great idea. We can put on some Mary-Jane Foster buttons, register a few hundred people and help the community in their efforts to gain employment. What a great, humanitarian idea. Thank you Steve for sharing. But instead I was verbally abused and maligned.
Isn’t that it, folks? Steve is a VICTIM. And he’s lured you cleverly into the race card, again. Of course he’s above that, but used to being ‘victimized’ for his ‘same-sex orientation,’ at least some of the time, by some people.
Isn’t the question, Steve, and it is one you can answer, Steve, where is the Small and Minority Business Resource office in all of the various hiring? Jobs are the #1 issue for too many City residents. What is the success of that office? Where is the data? Is it current? What role do they play daily and do they earn their pay in terms of their results in employment? Time will tell.
John Marshall Lee, you have been reduced to a jackass–you should know better. I do not ever see myself as a victim. I just stated a fact. Simple!
Again, John Marshall Lee, you are asking me questions that have nothing at all to do with me. What is it with you? I support Bill Finch–get the fuck over it. There is nothing you negative, redundant, whining, depressing individuals can say that will change my position. After next week I will not be engaging in this gibberish that sucks the life out of me. I suggest you take your knowledge to the streets and try your best to convince voters why they should vote for your candidate. To me, listening to you has become as welcoming as nails on a “whiteboard.”
Not that I do not respect what you have to say. I am just exhausted listening to your negative garbage and disrespect for the Mayor. It is best you talk to Ganim and Foster supporters and you can all kiss each other’s asses. Enjoy! 🙂
I think neighborhood groups can assist in the hiring. Were they even informed there would be a hiring process? There are other groups besides churches also. I do not think “these people” need to need to learn how to fill out an application and take an interview. That’s assuming they do not qualify and unfair.
concerned citizen, your handle is a joke! Half the people working in retail shops in Westport and Fairfield are Bridgeporters. Your reference to “these people” is a vain attempt to make it as though I was referring to a specific minority. Is it okay if a Vietnamese or Portuguese Bridgeporter works for Starbucks? Do they have to live in the East End? Will it be acceptable to you if they were Brazilian? Was it terrible to suggest a community aggressively train residents? Are you so certain the Workforce downtown did not post these jobs? The diverse population of the East End surrounding Steelpointe are not the only individuals looking for a job. “These people” of different ethnicities do need a helping hand. A little help learning how to interview, fill out an application would not hurt. Having mentors in the neighborhood would not hurt to motivate and support these individuals.
Calling me patronizing for suggesting certain individuals who are so “concerned” help orchestrate workshops in a community they are constantly droning on about is ridiculous.
Donald Day and Ron Mackey, maybe you could follow in the footsteps of Ted Meekins who led by example and touched thousands in the impoverished Bridgeport community as well as Darleen Meekins. Maybe you could follow in the footsteps of Ganim supporter Steven Nelson and mentor some of the youth and help them get jobs on Steelpointe.
I forgive you for your attempt to paint me as a racist.
I think, no I know, Steve A is a bigot. Steve, here are you words exactly. “I would like Ron Mackey and Donald Day and the East End churches to set up workshops for these people to learn how to fill out an application and take an interview.” That is a racist remark and what is a disgrace, it’s from a guy who teaches in our school system.
Andy, I didn’t think that was a racist comment. Of all people Andy, I think anybody reading this blog knows where you stand with any community that doesn’t look like you if you get my drift. I was just reading your arguments with Ron Mackey and Donald Day. Save your pathetic comments. You may call me anything that is true. A racist in Bridgeport is probably the biggest stretch. And he teaches in the Bridgeport Public Schools, how lucky those students have been. At least they think so.
Your opinion of me is not of any importance to me. If calling me a racist is your best comeback to me, Steve, I have documented my work in the poor areas of the city and I won’t detail them again for a bigot like you, teaching in Bridgeport schools Steve, you are only qualified to be a substitute teacher.
Andy, substitute teaching has been a temporary stop on my life’s journey that I only regret from a financial standpoint. I have been in Real Estate, Master Scheduler, Retail management of a Retail giant, Business recruitment and a record promoter working with nearly every record label you can imagine. My musical taste runs from Classic to Rap and everything in between. I listen to artists from every country. I have been throughout Europe and Asia extensively and of course the Middle East. My circle of friends encompasses nearly every diverse group that lives in Bridgeport and beyond. I volunteer at the Jewish Home and St. Joseph’s Manor. I am a cook to perfection of food from nearly every country. I am an avid gardener of vegetables and flowers and my knowledge of them is extensive. My major was Psychology and business and yes this is just a small piece of my background that qualifies me to be a substitute teacher in the Bridgeport School System. No regrets, but Andy, obviously qualified for so much more.
Oh yes, involved with city and state economic development, working with community groups and developers. How did I Leave out my favorite pastime?
Steve, it seems you can’t hold a job. Is it your giant ego that gets in the way? Of course you volunteer, you have nothing like a job to keep you busy. As far as your cooking goes, are you sure you are not using what you ate at the various restaurants and then told us about it like we give a shit to tell us what a great cook you are? Jesus, you are insufferable.
Andy, your scope of the world is limited to where you live and one career and local politics during Bridgeport’s most corrupt past. Your political support and angst against Finch is because he would not put your wife on the zoning commission. Your current support for Foster will again keep her away. Ironically, since you mentioned it Andy, like most educated people these days with many interests, we always look to improve our lives and expand our horizons. Most companies frown on lazy people who do the same job every day for 30 years. Every day the same people, the same environment, the same drama, the same small group of friends complaining about the same political crap every single day of your life. The only job I was terminated from, very ironically was from the city of Bridgeport. Terminated by Joe Ganim, a man who I actually voted for twice as I worked for Home Depot. Not a bad record Andy, and I totally understood Ganim’s position as I was the trusted right hand of his nemesis and working for the city nearly seven days a week. So Andy, if your point was to explore my work history, now you know. Although I appreciate your work as a firemen, I do see you as a very limited individual with a very limited scope of the world. A man who is incapable of embracing change and an excellent individual to take Mary-Jane Foster’s message to the street. You know Andy, I always appreciate your insults to my life and character. Although I do care what you think of me, I realize it is none of my business what you think of me. I suppose when an individual has a limited scope of reality, like a child who attempts hurtful comments that actually give an individual an opportunity to expound on their accomplishments.
One last comment, giant ego? Hardly! I do what I do without an audience and rarely get acknowledged with a pat on the back. I guess that comes with being self-actualized and respecting everyone’s contribution. I have always been a team player and a kingmaker. I do not need the limelight.
Steve, you have a lot of nerve. You don’t know where I have been and you don’t know what I have done but here is a little education for you. I traveled around the world courtesy of the US Navy and I made several landings in Central America to take Americans off several different islands. How was your military career?
Steve, Fortune 500 companies do not like to hire people with large resumes of employment as they don’t want to invest in people then have them leave for something else.
As far as Bill Finch goes there are several reasons I don’t like him. I am glad he lied to my wife and did not put her on the board.
My limited abilities as you state are a hell of a lot better than yours. I was in charge of 27 fire investigators around the country, I am a qualified fire investigator in Federal Court and am also an expert in state courts of Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, Minnesota state court and the list goes on. I made a six-figure income while at the company. I retired from there and started my own fire investigative business where I made $200 an hour to investigate and $250 to testify in court or to be deposed and I had more work than I could handle. Steve, if that is limited so be it but it’s better than $70 per day, I used to spend that on lunch.
So Andy, you made money like Charlie Valentino, politically connected all over the country. Andy, I am happy you were able to make $250 an hour with your amazing talent. It is true, $70 a day was extremely pathetic. That doesn’t change the fact Andy that you are still an individual with a very limited scope that with all your investigating all over the country you were still so involved in Bridgeport politics. Kudos to you, Andy. Just for the record Andy, this entire diatribe started when you joined the Donald Day chorus of painting me as a racist and being in the Bridgeport school system. You sir, however, can create a very impressive past but I think Donald Day and Ron Mackey pretty much educated Only in Bridgeport on your racist past. The fact you are all working on Mary-Jane Foster’s campaign does not erase your past. But I am sure Ron Mackey and Donald Day appreciated your ignorant comment about me. Maria P may accept your crap, I do not.
Sorry Steve, I made my money from working for a large insurance company. Steve, involved in Bridgeport politics. I was on the Park Board, which is not paid. You on the other hand kissed enough ass to get a job from Mary Moran. BFD any suck-ass could get that job. Kingmaker? Really? Steve, you couldn’t make a bed. Because Ron Mackey and Donald Day and I were on opposite sides in a lawsuit doesn’t make either one of us bigoted. Ask Ron Mackey about the training he received from me then get back to me.
Steve you talk about my limited world view, you have no idea what you are talking about, you are just using the liberal bullshit when you can’t answer a question. Steve, while you were trying to be a man of the world I was busy securing a future for me and my family. You are a dumb ass.
Andy, that was excellent advice. You have become senile and your racist history has been documented forever on OIB. Save it Andy, calling me a racist is laughable coming from you, seriously, you have to admit it!
Well, I guess I will not be welcomed at the Foster headquarters on Monday to say hello. Just as well.
Not only that Andy, but this is exactly how Tax Bill Finch feels and what he believes. Whenever you, I, Ron or Donald posts something, Stevie immediately determines that is the way Mary-Jane thinks. So since Steve posted bigoted, racist comments, by extension we should believe Tax Bill is the same.
Bob, you are totally correct, Steve Auerbach’s comments are Bill Finch’s talking points and beliefs.
Oh Ron Mackey, how about taking the advice, help the East End Community become competitive with the upcoming retail jobs that will be coming to Steelpointe, the future of Bridgeport. Better than just blowing hot air on this blog. Make an impact. Register some voters, at least get a piece of the East End vote. Going to look kind of silly with Finch and Ganim getting the bulk of East End votes with Charlie Coviello coming in third with that community. Referring to myself or the Mayor as racist is sad. If you think that is true about me I cannot waste my energy anymore. I do find it curious many black people on this blog read this and know me personally are dumbfounded. I am, but alas after July 11th you guys can go after each other. I will be going after the African American vote! 🙂 Let’s see who is more convincing!
Bob Walsh, when Mary-Jane see the results of the polls she will thank you! Me, your opinion of me is not of any importance to me. If calling me a racist is your best comeback to me, all I ask is if you ever catch me with a friend of color please do not tell them I am a member of the Ku Klux Klan–they do not know I am not a Christian. I have never been recorded calling a black member of the council reminding her of her slave ancestry. Referring to Mayor Finch as a slave master. Save your crap for conversing while sitting on your ass in Fosters campaign headquarters making yourself relevant. I think the numbers you get from the East End will prove my point!
Thank you Steve for that reminder. I had forgotten all about that. Although you got some of the facts wrong, we know that never stops you from posting whatever you want.
The most important fact is I apologized to the council and they unanimously accepted it.
But I am truly grateful for reminding me of the role your hero Tax Bill Finch played in the entire situation. He more than anyone else fanned the flames of racial distrust all in the name of personal politics.
A leader truly concerned about racial harmony would never stoop to that level. But no one has ever accused Tax Bill Finch of being a leader or someone truly concerned about racial harmony.
Steve, you just don’t get it but I hope you keep saying the same things. Steve, why is it you are the only person on OIB with your viewpoints and support for Bill Finch? Andy Fardy got it totally right in what he said about you. You see Steve, you have protected coloring, yes you’re gay and a Jew but you can still hide as just a white male because when you are at work or going out to eat people don’t see a Jew or someone gay, they see a white male with white privilege.
Ron,
I agree with a lot of what Steve writes. I don’t think Finch is perfect but the comments on this blog are all anti-Finch all the time. It seems like a lot of personal vendettas and not honest dialogue about the city.
Ron, for Christ’s sake, you live in Bridgeport Connecticut not South Carolina. But I totally understand if we were eating in a racist establishment. I do not think my friends think that way. I suppose if I were black and living down South Ron I would give in. But sorry, in Bridgeport, I do not see myself as a white man of privilege. I am sorry you see yourself that way. Perhaps if you were a white man of privilege you could have been making $250 an hour like Andy. I am still laughing as I am reading your attacks with your tag-team partner Donald Day crucifying Andy Fardy and now you think you can brand me. Ron, you do however make me feel totally ridiculous for many of the causes I have supported in my life.
I don’t know why this topic got my attention more than the others on this site but it did. I was thinking about this when I was just in Whole Foods in Fairfield. More than half the employees were black. So, according to the comments on this blog, I’m supposed to believe white kids from Fairfield are going to work at a Starbucks in Bridgeport? Sounds like people here don’t know what the hell is going on with service sector employment in this region.
Will someone please tell me where are the blogs for Bill Finch, would like to read what the Finch supporters are saying besides Steve Auerbach.
Ron, I live in the North End. I would like to introduce you to my neighbors. Now mind you many of them are black and do not see me as a racist. Come by sometime and we can take a walk and you can hear firsthand what a Finch supporter has to say. After we have met and I offered you a beer or whatever is your pleasure and made you look at my vegetables, we can take that walk. Afterwards, you can go back to the Foster headquarters I was going to visit tomorrow to hear MJF’s speech, go right to the 134th district voter list and cross off all the Finch supporters so you guys do not have to knock on the same doors. I am such a nice guy, I know. You are welcome. And Ron Mackey, you would be welcomed here.