It’s a battle for Bridgeport badges.
A slate of Republican sheriff candidates Charlie Valentino, Ethan Book and Jacquelynn Perry has qualified for a September 14 primary against incumbents former party chair Mike Garrett, Mike Moretti and three-time mayoral candidate Rick Torres.
Book is trying to turn the page on the Republican establishment by aligning with Perry and former Fairfield County High Sheriff Valentino, a veteran of municipal elections for decades, who enjoys a collection of his own GOP contacts.
When it comes to GOP primaries, Black Rock and North End receive most of the attention, but Book has recently toiled in areas dominated by Democrats by virtue of his unsuccessful runs for State House in the heavily Hispanic 128th District where he says he has registered Republicans outside the party mainstream.
This is not slate take all. The top three vote producers among the six candidates will be declared the winners. The challenge slate hopes for some vote splitting while dragging out their own friends against the incumbents led by Torres’ popularity in Black Rock.
City sheriffs serve legal papers at the behest of the judicial system. Democrats and Republicans are guaranteed three sheriff spots each by state mandate.
Elections officials report that the new Harding High School at 379 Bond Street is now the permanent polling location for the local district 139-02 and the state district of 124-04. Also, all voters who previously voted at Aquaculture School will now be voting at Geraldine Claytor Magnet Academy, 240 Ocean Drive, District 130-01.
Bullet Bookie!
The voters in this Republican primary need to remember that Ethan Book is not only a Donald Trump supporter but Ethan was at the January 6th insurrection to stop the vote by force with those white supremacists. All one has to do is to read Ethan Book’s statements on Only In Bridgeport.
Ron, there you go again with your false weasel wording. I am proud that I support many of the good things Donald Trump has done for our country. Also, if what you’re trying to say is that I was at the January 6th rally in DC, as I have said, I was not there. Rather, I was at a separate rally in Hartford [In fact, at about noon on January 6th, I went with another person who served at the Capital the summons on our Secretary of State Denise Merrill for issues of defects of the 2020 general election, a lawsuit which continues developing.]. I and the others of our slate promote Republican ideals including fiscal restraints (i.e., budgets and taxing), conservatives on social issues, support of our constitutional republic form of government, and we affirm that our great nation is a Judeo/Christian nation!
Ethan Book, the national debt has risen by almost $7.8 trillion during Trump’s time in office. Ethan you were a surrogate for the white nationalist who were in D.C. for their insurrection to stop the vote.
Ethan, you said, ” I am proud that I support many of the good things Donald Trump has done for our country.” And you also stated, “I and the others of our slate promote Republican ideals including fiscal restraints (i.e., budgets and taxing), conservatives on social issues, support of our constitutional republic form of government, and we affirm that our great nation is a Judeo/Christian nation!” Ethan, Donald Trump has no past history with the Republican Party but you want to get elected by choosing Trump as a role model, maybe you need to look at Michael Stephen Steele.
Michael Stephen Steele (born October 19, 1958) is an American conservative political commentator, attorney, and former Republican Party politician. Steele served as the seventh lieutenant governor of Maryland from 2003 to 2007; he was the first African-American elected to statewide office in Maryland. As lieutenant governor, Steele chaired the Minority Business Enterprise task force, actively promoting an expansion of affirmative action in the corporate world. Steele also served as chairperson of the Republican National Committee (RNC) from January 2009 until January 2011; he was the first African-American to serve in that capacity.
Steele worked for one year as a high school teacher at Malvern Preparatory School in Pennsylvania, teaching classes in world history and economics. He spent three years preparing for the Catholic priesthood at the Augustinian Friars Seminary at Villanova University, which he left prior to ordination to enter civil service.
Steele subsequently attended Georgetown Law School where he graduated with a JD degree in 1991.
Trump comes nowhere near the road traveled by Michael Stephen Steele.