Moore, Gomes, Daniels, And Finch Attend The People’s Platform Release Party

BRIDGEPORT – On Saturday, March 25th, the people partied! Loud, proud, and diverse Bridgeporters from across the city – including three of the candidates for Mayor: Senator Marilyn Moore, John Gomes, and Lamond Daniels, as well as former Mayor Bill Finch – came together and celebrated a new blueprint for Bridgeport’s future called The People’s Platform.

This blueprint offers a transformative vision to fund our schools, enact real government accountability, improve public safety, make our streets safer and more.  We know with new leadership that is ready to work on this concrete plan, we can change our city and make it run for the people!

The Vision

Bridgeport is a great city! We’re a proud, strong community with a long history of looking out for and lifting up one another. We value justice, diversity, and equity. We believe in a vibrant, inclusive democracy and a government that is accountable, responsive, and free of corruption and cronyism. We expect strong public schools, safe, welcoming, affordable neighborhoods, and an economy that offers opportunities for all. Above all, we believe in a city that is truly run for and by the people.

We all know Bridgeport has a way to go before we can become the city we envision. Because for too long, political corruption has held us back, kept us from building a more just, equitable, and livable city, what Martin Luther King, Jr. called “the beloved community.”

Voters’ Voices Matter!

2023 can be Bridgeport’s year of change, because on Tuesday, September 12th, Bridgeporters have a chance to vote for a new Mayor. So, over the past year, Bridgeport Generation Now Votes and our Unrig Bridgeport coalition partners— including the Greater Bridgeport Ed Gomes Black Democratic Club, Connecticut Citizen’s Action Group, PT Partners, Greater Bridgeport NAACP, Make the Road Action Connecticut, and SEIU 1199 New England, and more—have been engaging with Bridgeporters in every corner of our city, seeking out your ideas for how we can help Bridgeport reach its great potential.

From this dialogue—conducted via one-on-one conversations in neighborhoods, larger community meetings, and through a citywide poll of residents—comes the People’s Platform, a progressive vision centered around all of our priorities for Bridgeport: good government, education, housing, public safety, jobs, infrastructure, environmental protection, and arts and recreation.

a Beloved Bridgeport

We’re asking our fellow Bridgeporters and all candidates running for office in Bridgeport in 2023 to sign on in support of the People’s Platform. By implementing this vision, we can finally come together, free ourselves from the systematic corruption that has been holding us back for far too long, and finally build the beloved Bridgeport we all know is possible.

Love Bridgeport? Pledge to Vote on Tues, Sept, 12th and Donate to the Year of Change HERE!