Finch drops out of Bridgeport mayoral race, endorses Mary-Jane Foster

Malloy said he had not recommended to Finch that he should drop out of the race and endorse Mary-Jane Foster.

Two-term incumbent Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch lost a three-way Democratic primary to Joe Ganim, a former Bridgeport mayor who served seven years in prison for corruption.

While Foster came in third in the Democratic primary, she had previously submitted enough signatures to secure a spot on the ballot as an unaffiliated candidate. I haven’t had that conversation with Mary-Jane or the mayor, ” Malloy said.

Last Thursday, the Job Creation Party nominated Finch as the candidate to represent them.

The mayor of Bridgeport said on Tuesday he will not seek re-election in November after missing a key paperwork deadline, raising the chances that his ex-convict rival will take back the post in Connecticut’s largest city. “That’s what politics is about, and as a voter, I want the right person, and so that’s one of the reasons I stand behind Mayor Finch”. Finch then faced challenges trying to secure a place on the November ballot, ending that effort on Tuesday by officially joining forces with Foster in a downtown office building.

At the time of his arrest, Ganim was a rising political star in the Democratic Party, and was being considered as a potential candidate for governor or Congress.

Ganim and Mary Jane Foster are running against the Republican nominee, Enrique Torres.