Bridgeport is a sad state of affairs, which is a shame given its natural assets and location. It has high taxes, a mountain of debt and a high crime rate. Its current Mayor, Joe Ganim, was convicted in 2003 on a mere sixteen corruption charges, including racketeering, extortion, bribery, and mail fraud, and he served seven years in prison. Not to be outdone and apparently to do more damage to the crime free city, Ganim became Mayor again in 2015 pretty much picking up where he left off. During 2018-19, five municipal employees under Ganim were arrested. Police chief Armando Perez and personnel director David Dunn were charged in September 2018 for conspiring to help Perez cheat to get the police chief position. The two were convicted and sentenced. In May 2019, State Senator Dennis Bradley and school board member Jessica Martinez were charged for allegedly trying to fraudulently obtain state public campaign financing. Also in May 2019, City Councilman Michael DeFilippo was charged for illegalities involving absentee or mail-in ballots.
The past primary on September 12th for Mayor in Bridgeport saw Ganim incredibly winning again by a mere 251 votes when all absentee ballots were counted. However, a September 5 video taken from the Morton Center in Bridgeport distributed by Mayor challenger John Gomes shows a city employee Wanda Geter-Pataki, who is the Vice-Chair of the Bridgeport Democratic Town Committee, an employee of the City of Bridgeport, a front desk receptionist at the Bridgeport Government Center, and a supporter of Mayor Joe Ganim, stuffing what appear to be absentee ballots on multiple occasions into a publicly designated container. Also, it has been stated that an internal surveillance video also shows that Geter-Pataki handed ballots to another unnamed city employee who proceeded to place those ballots in the same box. Geter-Pataki has been placed on paid administrative leave from her job since this video. As of the time of this writing, Mr. Gomes’ campaign has filed twenty-two separate complaints to both the Office of the Secretary of the State and the State Enforcement Elections Commission regarding voting issues. State and Bridgeport police investigations are starting also as of the time of this writing. The state is still investigating alleged voter fraud from the 2019 election with possible investigations into three people with close ties with the Ganim campaign.
Regarding the alleged fraud, Connecticut's Democrat Secretary of State Stephanie Thomas condescendingly stated that: "This situation is not about partisan politics, it’s not about a broken electoral system. This isn’t even about absentee ballot systems,” Thomas said. “It’s about a few bad actors and an undereducated electorate.” (https://insideinvestigator.org/sots-bridgeport-ballot-scandal-result-of-bad-actors-and-under-educated-electorate). How is the electorate under-educated? How many bad actors constantly are found in Democrat Bridgeport? It is apparent by Secretary of State Thomas above quote that she is toeing the unaccountable for anything Democrat Party line that they can do no wrong and it is obviously the voter's fault for what they did. Although Mr. Gomes is sincere in his request for heightened state oversight for a new election, regrettably more money for the serial ineptitude that is the Secretary of State's office will not solve this problem, given the ineptitude and unseriousness of said office, from the top down.
Taxpayers and homeowners, especially those in Bridgeport, should be sickened by many aspects of the ongoing corruption in Democrat Mayor Ganim's administration and campaign. He obviously continues to place himself above the law like most Democrats in Connecticut do, following the pattern from His Royal Con-Man King Ned Lamont “The Unaccountable”. I do not understand how Connecticut allows a convicted felon to run for office again. It is obvious to many that corruption reigns supreme in Bridgeport, Ganim and his political operatives use this poor decaying city as their personal bank accounts. Civil rights of its citizens are discarded, and ethics are non-existent. Why is this happening over and over again in Bridgeport? Where is the outcry by the elites in the Democrat Party over this obvious fraud and misconduct and their usual shrieks about “our democracy?” Why are Taxpayers good monies being used to pay for this abuse of its vote and political system?
As Democrat Party corruption in its purest sense keeps getting ignored, it becomes the norm. The norm of a complete failure of the right to vote and the right to a democracy. In Bridgeport and other Connecticut towns and cities these failures are embraced and rewarded. Bridgeport deserves better than another two failed years of the Ganim extortion administration of economic and social failures.
Ganim and his cartel need to go once and for all. And the clock may tick for 1776 in Bridgeport first before it ticks in other places.
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