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p>I am informed that some of Mayor Ganim's canvassers are suggesting that I have dropped out and endorsed him.

First, I endorse only myself. My preference for Ganim is inside the idea of the devil you know. My recent recitation of that preference was inside a comment about Mr. Daniels endorsement.

I also commented that the left knows no truth, is still doubling down on the failed notions and policies that have been destroying our cities at least sixty years, and that we need moral and ethical guiderails as much as we need the fiscal.

Does Mr. Ganim really think lying about my candidacy will help him at this point? I don't care if he disclaims knowledge. His minions have engaged in too much questionable conduct for them not to be under a tighter lealh at this point in time.

It is time for us to stand on our ideals, on our visions, and on our records. Maybe I am an idealist. Maybe given my odds, I can still afford to be. But maybe idealism is in order.

Mr. Ganim's record is long. If he can't trust that, if he can't trust that the City can see the good he has done, despite the bad he has done, and choose intelligently for him, then he's just playing us all.

The problem is this campaign has been a race to the bottom. Most of what I have seen from both candidates is how the other is worse. Maybe it is time we start thinking about better.

I was also excoriated by a member of my own party for not coming out more forcefully for myself. So I will use the words he suggested.

Bridgeport, this is a real opportunity to change our city. We can’t keep voting in the same people with the same ideals and character and expect different results. On Tuesday, February 27, you have the opportunity to elect a mayor who has the energy and tenacity to ensure change. This is why I ask you to vote for me, David Herz as your next mayor. I can promise you I’m on your side and I will fight for every honest citizen of Bridgeport if you honor me with your vote to give me that chance.

See you on Tuesday, February 27.

If it is going to be a Democrat, I agree that Mayor Ganim is the better choice.

I think it's a good move for Mr. Daniels. Mr. Ganim won't be mayor forever. Maybe he's looking for one more good term, and will then be ready to hand the city off.

I expect that Mr. Daniels will find an important place within the Ganim administration, and execute well, positioning him as the preferred candidate to follow Mr. Ganim.

As to my campaign, I am clear that the city we have is in large part the result of failed Blue City policies that have wrecked inner cities across the country. I think the actions taken in pursuit of Johnson's Great Society had-as do most government policies-numerous devastating sequalae that continue to fracture our society today.

As to whether I might be a spoiler: I don't spoil anything. My role is to shed some light on the errors and excesses of the left. As Justice Brandeis reminds us “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.” And there are still a lot of dark spaces.

There is a fatigue about the way things are in Bridgeport: “they will not change,” I am told.

But there is also a growing resistance to the anxiety inducing world given to us by a left that knows no truth. We need moral and ethical guardrails as much as we need the fiscal.

I am an Orthodox Jew. And I am clear that the great we have in our country is given by the Christian values on which this country grew. There is truth.

Our country forgets that at its own peril. Our Democrats should be ashamed for their attack on it: All Life Matters, corrective racism—“committed diversity position”—is just racism, boys are not equal to girls and they certainly can't be alchemized to become them, G-d matters, family matters, fathers matter, man is the highest of G-d's creations; he certainly is not a blight upon this planet or a threat to its environment, he is creative and infinitely adaptable, and exceptional, as is America.

Our job is to celebrate that greatness and create the space where every American can discover it in himself. It starts with a child, properly embedded in a family, that family properly embedded in a physical and religious community, these forming the core of our society.

How easy it is for the left to tell those it doesn't like on the right to be ashamed of themselves, the subtext being that the target should exit the scene.

Ms. Campbell sees warning signs. Losing our grip in a shame-free world, CT Post, Jan. 16, p. A9. “Our moral maps” are off. According to her, the signs are flashing about our “country's purported slow side into fascism.”

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I agree with Mayor Ganim that he is the better choice in our upcoming primary. Why I Fired John Gomes, CT Post Jan. 11, 2024 . The problem is that both he and Mr. Gomes are different hues of the same failed color.

In his recent interview with Lisa Wexler, Mayor Ganim related that he came from Republican stock, and suggested that he was moved to become a Democrat because it is the “more compassionate” party. I laud that compassion, and have no doubt of Mayor Ganim's love for our city.

However, compassion becomes a curse when something else is necessary, the classic example being the butterfly that never properly forms because a human has tried to help it out of its chrysalis.

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To the City Council of Bridgeport:

The Committee on G-d and Truth hereby Reports and Recommends:

Resolution calling for the Condemnation of the anti-Semitic City Council of Bridgeport

Whereas, all life is precious and the discriminate killing of innocent civilians on the grounds of their religious heritage is evil, and

Whereas, the indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians on the grounds of their mere employment by or association with people of a particular religious heritage is evil, and

Whereas, Islamic terrorists have carried out more than 44,539 deadly terror attacks since 9/11, 145 in the last thirty days in 22 countries, killing 823 people and injuring 805 more, and the City Council has found no reason to comment, and

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