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.