We’re on the cusp of 2015, so that can mean only one thing: time to reach deep into your crystal ball to puke up predictions.
Who’ll be the next state senator from the 23rd District replacing Andres Ayala?
Will Mayor Bill Finch win a third four-year term?
If not, who?
Will Joe Ganim run for mayor?
Will Mary-Jane Foster run for mayor?
Will anyone else qualify for the mayoral ballot?
Will the one Republican on the City Council Enrique Torres seek a third run for mayor?
How about changes on the City Council?
What about the school board election?
Will Rev. Moales preach his own political party?
Will Bass Pro open in 2015?
Will Bridgeport and Trumbull finally agree on a poop processing deal?
Will the Hennessy-Grogins government reform bill banning city employees from serving on the City Council pass?
Will the Congress Street bridge ever be built?
Will Harry Houdini return from the dead to jump off the Pleasure Beach pier shackled to 20 City Council members?
If so, will anyone notice?
I just finished Dan Brown’s InFerno and James Patterson’s The Big Bad Wolf. I Highly recommend both. As well as what will most likely be the top Oscar Contenders, Unbroken, The Theory of Everything, The Imitation Game and Big Eyes.
I predict Joe Ganim and Mary-Jane Foster will not run.
I predict Finch will run and win unopposed.
I predict the Republican party will acknowledge global warming now that the pope has embraced it.
I predict Putin will continue on his downward cycle as the Russian economy gets crushed.
I Predict Malloy and Finch will greet Hillary Clinton in Bridgeport.
I predict Mario Testa’s niece will marry Tiago’s owner. Making it clear why he has a city job.
I predict Bass Pro will open on schedule.
I predict a supermarket will open on the other side of Steelepointe.
I predict there will be four more major announcements during the late spring on Steelepointe.
I predict Adam Wood will take a leave of absence to work on Clinton’s campaign.
I predict the construction of two high-rise apartment complexes downtown.
I predict Mayor Finch will support Bob Halstead’s community gardens.
I predict an early spring press conference center to unveil the Nob Hill Virginia Ave. Park.
I predict chaos in the 23rd district.
I predict John Fabrizi will reconsider his run for mayor.
I predict Chris Caruso will consider a run but decide to stay with the state.
I predict Joe Ganim will stay in Easton and Dave Daniels in Shelton.
I predict Donald Day and Ron Mackey will admit they are one and the same person.
🙂
Crack me up, Steve.
I never lived in Shelton and I will be moving to Bridgeport shortly. Your prognosticator skills a little lacking … but you’re funny, lol.
🙂 I predict David Daniels will rethink his move to Bridgeport and move to Shelton. 🙂
I predict Steve will set an OIB record for postings in 2015!
Up On Bridgeport, I think bow tie will challenge you by insisting I will earn that prestigious honor. After all, he has already spent time counting the number of posts I make.
I predict there will be a snowstorm … and the public works department will not know what happened.
1. I predict Caruso runs for Mayor while Mario heads back to the mountains of Italy.
2. I predict Sal DiNardo burns his house down in Fairfield by mistake, while lighting a yule log in his fireplace after using an accelerant Bob Curwen found at Remington. Then Fairfield Fire Dept gets the call and goes to Remington instead.
3. I predict the City Attorney loses another court case, when Manny Moutinho sues the City for letting him install a driveway below FEMA’s 100-year storm level.
4. I predict McCarthy comes out of the closet.
5. I predict Bass Pro Shops never comes to Bridgeport, but we can always use the building for Finch’s urban farmer friend.
6. I predict the Solar farm at Seaside Park will kill seagulls by the hundreds, and we can see the smoke from I-95.
7. I predict Trumbull starts its own WPCA and stops Paul Timpanelli from connecting to it. Then puts a poop pump station in front of his house.
8. I predict McCarthy goes back into the closet and Caruso comes out!
9. I predict a third person comes forward to claim Paoletto sexually harassed him, while being removed from the speaker’s podium at a city council meeting.–-Suit pending.
10. I predict Sue Brannelly moves in with Mike Marrella, so she can run for the State Senate seat vacated by Andres Ayala, like a good Finchette.
11. I predict Bob Keeley runs for Mayor, and wins!
The pure entertainment value of OIB is unmatched. Steve and Jim, both your postings made me LOL.
I predict blacks and Puerto Ricans realize the error of their ways and vote for each other for Mayor and leave the minorities out of Mayoral consideration.
I predict Bass Pro goes bankrupt in two years because white suburbanites are afraid to come into the city to shop for camping supplies and blacks and Puerto Ricans don’t camp.
I predict Mario Testa will remove his arm from the back of Mayor Finch and everyone will finally realize he was just a puppet.
I predict Andy Fardy and the DTC kiss and make up and Andy becomes a loyal Democrat again.
I predict Steve Auerbach sings the song “I kissed a girl and I liked it” and goes back into the closet.
I predict Ron Mackey moves and no one ever hears from Donald Day again.
Thank you, Donald Day. I’ve kissed many and liked it, but not enough to live a lie on the down low if you catch my drift. You do catch my drift, right Donald Gay?
You talk like you think you are a second-class citizen being black and gay. You rant like it’s 1964 and blacks and Puerto Ricans are downtrodden by the white man. Snap out of it!
Sorry Don, that won’t happen. I am still friends with Mario but don’t want anything to do with the TC. Been there, done that. Happy New Year.
Donald, it would be an honor to stand with you in support of a candidate who embodies the ideals we both support. I have heard many good things about you from a mutual friend (someone whom I would NEVER DOUBT). Let’s make this the year we have been waiting for.
Donald Day, your predictions are equally entertaining!
Especially the last comment, excellent!
I predict Bill Finch will win a third term as Mayor of Bridgeport. However, my prediction doesn’t count as much as those who live in Bridgeport, since I am located in the suburbs in Trumbull. So give me 1/3 of a vote. Still, I love to see the Mayor whenever I run into him, and I know he loves Bridgeport.
Stay in Trumbull.
Andy,
We have been part of Budget Oversight Bridgeport for five years or so, and it comes to predictions for the year 2015 and Lennie G. has not a single fiscal question listed!!!
OK, is there any doubt now Lennie and OIB have been co-opted by those in power in Bridgeport? They are intent (and Maria is content) on keeping everybody laughing at others’ expense while the big money machine keeps purring for the few today (and at the expense of the rest of us into the future–higher debt, larger post retirement expenses, and properties handcuffed with long-term tax deals).
Just my attempt at “poor humor” by blaming Lennie G. instead of all of us for settling for a story without facing the “fiscal music.” When will we learn? Time will tell.