Election Day was a mess. Ballot shortages, chaos at voting places, long lines, electors walking away in disgust. Kudos to voters that waited in line for an hour or more. For those that walked away who could blame them.
Mayor Bill Finch has formed a committee to assess the election process and make recommendations for improvement. The obvious improvement, print more freaking ballots! City elections are managed by elected registrars of voters, one Democrat and one Republican, and their respective staffs. The registrars, chosen by party regulars, have two year terms and do not report to the mayor.
A public meeting will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 16 at 7 p.m., in City Hall Annex, 999 Broad Street.
Former Bridgeport Mayor Nick Panuzio, attorney Richard Bieder and Robert Trefry, former CEO of Bridgeport Hospital want to hear from you. “We want to hear firsthand accounts of problems and issues faced by any Bridgeport voters who went to the polls to vote on Election Day, Nov. 2,” says Panuzio.
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Nick Panuzio? He was mayor when I was a kid and I’m an AARP member now.He deserted Bpt for greener pastures-what brings him back to this festering stinkhole?Is Finch going to give him some $100,000 job with the city?What exactly is Finchy’s “commission” going to do?Determine the registrar failed to order enough ballots?We know that.The politically connected Ayala won’t resign and can’t be ousted.So we are STUCK paying someone who SHOULD be removed,but can’t.(Kind of like FABRIZI’s last year in office.)
It is a tradegy when poverty has consumed the mind; nonetheless the inferior are not at the bottom of the totem pole. It is hilarious how the old sweat of America continues to hold on; wishing to make every attempt to keep truth crushed to the ground. I am an outsider looking in; since moving to CT it is sad to see so much potential and such ignorance of how to pursue a “win-win.”
The streets of Bridgeport (largest town, city) are sad, not because of the people but of the division that seems to go unnoticed. Looking from the outside in I believe it is noticed but again it is the impoverished that miss the opportunity to receive an overflow of riches. Riches that will put this town at the top of its game.
Shame on Bridgeport! you fear so much that you have nothing~ the educated seem to can’t wait to leave this foresaken town, and the wise do not want to sit across the table from old American sweat swindlers. What a shame!Election day was an ongoing pattern of business as usual, you can’t win by wisdom. So, it suits better to swindle like swine!