Posted on 11/08/2023 3:32:32 AM PST by lowbridge
Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim squeaked out a narrow victory Tuesday night in a highly anticipated rematch against his top challenger, John Gomes, but the win could be merely symbolic due to a recent court order that tossed out the results of the city’s earlier Democratic mayoral primary.
Ganim, a Democrat who returned to office in 2015 after serving a seven-year prison sentence on federal corruption charges, unofficially captured 176 more votes than Gomes, who worked in Ganim’s administration prior to mounting a primary challenge against the incumbent mayor this year.
“This is more the continuation of a course of progress for the city of Bridgeport tonight. Vengeance and bullying loses to vision and progress,” Ganim said.
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To keep his seat, Ganim still needs to win a new primary election, which was ordered after a state judge sided with Gomes and agreed that the city’s earlier Democratic primary on Sept. 12 was marred by ballot fraud.
Superior Court Judge William Clark made that decision after five days of court hearings, during which Gomes’ attorneys presented city surveillance footage that featured Ganim supporters and members of Bridgeport’s Democratic Town Committee depositing stacks of absentee ballots into drop boxes ahead of the September primary.
Two of the women apparently depicted in that footage — Wanda Geter-Pataky and Eneida Martinez — chose to assert their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination rather than testify in court.
But in his order, Clark ruled the videos were evidence of “blatant” ballot harvesting, which is illegal under Connecticut law.
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Gomes won the in-person vote again, but Ganim made up that distance once the absentee ballots were counted, just like the primary.
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“Ganim, a Democrat who returned to office in 2015 after serving a seven-year prison sentence on federal corruption charges,....”
What more do you need to know once the democrats overwhelm the demographics.
Once they get enough of them, they won’t even consider s republican. It doesn’t matter how awful the democrats make things.
He’s the Marion Barry of Bridgeport.
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