As Bridgeport school security guard Eddie Moro arrived to patrol the halls at Marin School, he stopped to chat a bit about the city’s politics.
“If Joe Ganim was to run for Mayor tomorrow, I’d vote for him,” Moro said. “And I know a lot of other people who would too.”
Moro, who has worked at the school for 21 years, is a friendly face for students, parents, teachers and administrators as they arrive every morning at the school. He holds the door open and greets each student, switching back and forth between English and Spanish as he puts smiles on the faces of children slowly making their way into class.
But on Tuesday, Moro showed he’s also a bit of a political junkie.
“Finch, he is a good man, but the people around him, they’ve made him do things he hasn’t wanted to,” the veteran security officer said. “He’s been like a puppy dog, and you don’t want that from the Mayor of this city.”
But Ganim, Moro said, really looked out for the people of Bridgeport.
“He made a mistake, but he paid the price for it. We all make mistakes,” Moro said, before turning to three girls he called the “3 Muskateers,” and told them to behave today, joking that there isn’t enough Tylenol in the world to cure the headaches that Bridgeport students give him daily.
Ganim, a Democrat who served as Bridgeport Mayor from 1991 to 2003, was convicted of receiving kickbacks and spent seven years in federal prison. He was released in 2010 and hinted that he could make a return to politics, but didn’t enter the race.