Bridgeport rally Thursday for Wanda Geter-Pataky. Call for Equity and Justice for Democrat who asserted the Fifth Amendment in absentee ballots trial.
Friends of Bridgeport Democrat Wanda Geter-Pataky will gather Thursday at 5 p.m. to protest “bias and injustice” as Geter-Pataky “faces allegations of ballot box tampering.” Organizers decry the media attention paid to a video of Geter-Pataky, an enthusiastic supporter of Bridgeport’s mayor, Joseph Ganim, appearing to make repeated deposits of absentee ballots in a ballot box located outside at the Margaret Morton Government Center.
“The black community believes that her case has received undue media scrutiny when compared to a white woman who engaged in similar alleged misconduct but remained largely untouched be the media’s spotlight.” The media is invited to Thursday’s event.
The spotlight is the result of the proliferation of cameras monitoring the ballot drop-boxes. The video of Geter-Pataky is made for a a social media age. She raised the attention her role received when she asserted her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when she testified in Ganim rival John Gomes’ court challenge to Ganim’s September primary win by 251 vote.
Published October 18, 2023.
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