Hugh Bailey editor of the Connecticut Post and New Haven Register’s editorial page asked his readers an intriguing question this past Sunday. Is Bridgeport finally getting tired of the Ganim show?

Clues into how Bridgeporters are feeling about Mayor Ganim can be found in a recent Lake Research public survey where 51% of young people say Bridgeport is headed in the wrong direction.

In his article Bailey lays out how Ganim’s re-election in 2015 was actually a precursor to the utter disbelief the country lived through in 2016 when Donald Trump was elected and describes what he calls the “weirdness that accompanied Ganim’s return to office [that] has never gone away.” Examples include, the recent revelation that Ganim lied about having a drug problem so that he could get out of jail early, his decision to appoint his long time friend, Armando Perez to the chief of police who was later found guilty for cheating to get that job and spent time in federal prison, and, if that’s not all, questions about where Ganim actually lives have plagued him since returning to office.

From the article:

“Ganim, for those who don’t know, has been mayor of Bridgeport since 2015 and is seeking another four-year term this year. That would be noteworthy on its own, but Ganim is different. He regained his job eight years ago having left the same position 12 years before that, resigning in disgrace following his conviction on corruption charges. He then went to federal prison for seven years.

In an example of continuing oddities that might cause a firestorm in any other administration, it was recently revealed that Ganim had lied, for solely his personal benefit, while he was serving that prison sentence. He said he was addicted to drugs, but he wasn’t — he knew that entering a treatment program would get time taken off his sentence, so he said he had a drug problem.“

Bailey continues:

“…several times during his current term of office, questions have come up as to where, exactly, Joe Ganim lives.

According to the city, he lives in Black Rock. But he’s also put the house in question up as a vacation rental on Airbnb, which violated local zoning regulations. Consequently, he said he would stop doing that. But does he live there? Few people sign up for a vacation home and expect the owner to be puttering around the property.

It’s the second time he’d been found listing a Bridgeport home on Airbnb when he wasn’t supposed to, and he’s owned or called home a number of properties in Bridgeport during his mayoral term.

He can do what he wants, within local laws, but it’s not too much to expect a simple answer to the question: “Where does the mayor live?”

Click HERE to read the CTPost Article.