Mary-Jane Foster, who retired this year as UB’s vice president of university relations, acknowledged Salonen’s and Estrada’s emails to the mayor’s office show that the school has a better relationship with Ganim than it had with Finch. But besides the university officials, the mayor had also been hearing complaints from City Council members and Mickey Herbert, the new president of the Bridgeport Regional Business Council. Sikorski has said he lobbied Ganim to continue. “One of the concerns anyone would have in my position is if you’re going to shine a national spotlight, especially on a topic such as policing, you’re going to see everything - the good, the bad and the ugly.” “I think my advice would have been one of caution,” Harris said. Noticeably absent from that list? The director of communications, Harris. “But it was Gina, myself, Captain Straubel, Don Sikorski.” “Joe knew because he’s the mayor,” Perez said. Perez said his aide, Captain Mark Straubel, and mayoral adviser Gina Malheiro, who was Ganim’s campaign finance director before he hired her in City Hall, were closely involved in coordinating the filming. That we have good officers, and though bad things do happen, these officers handle the situations in a correct manner and help the people who need help.” “What we wanted to do is show Bridgeport in a positive light. “It took a couple of weeks weighing the pros and cons” of participating in “Live PD,” Perez recalled Tuesday. Perez, a police captain and longtime friend of Ganim’s whom the returned mayor promoted to police chief earlier this year. Sikorski created an episodic documentary of Ganim’s successful 2015 comeback campaign when the then ex-mayor ousted incumbent Bill Finch in the Democratic primary, then won the general election.Īlso part of Ganim’s entourage at the time was A.J. In an interview Tuesday, Harris said he was not among the decision-makers who involved Bridgeport in “Live PD” earlier this year, and would have urged caution had he been.Īs previously reported, City Hall’s connection to “Live PD” was co-executive producer Don Sikorski of Norwalk. Harris responded to Estrada that both he and the mayor harbored similar concerns. “I’m not sure where this originated from, but it will be a disservice to the community,” wrote Estrada. “It would be interesting to know who approved it and why,” wrote Salonen. Bridgeport has long struggled to overcome a reputation for crime and corruption. Salonen’s and Estrada’s emails also hint at how one faction of the Ganim administration green-lit the high profile project without a good sense of the concerns “Live PD” might stir up in this image-conscious city. Within two weeks “Live PD” stopped filming in Bridgeport. “I’m sure the city as a whole would prefer not to provide any additional misperceptions.” He was five behind after the first round, and the deficit grew to 11 shots and 12 shots until he finished 16 shots behind Jon Rahm.“We are seeing negative comments from prospective students regarding perceived security issues in Bridgeport,” Estrada wrote Harris, also on Dec. Otherwise, the focus is on the majors, and the hope he can recapture a little magic and make a lot of putts and at least go into the weekend with a fighting chance. The other tournament that benefits his foundation is the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas. Riviera - which Woods has played the most times (12 as a pro) without winning - made sense because he is the tournament host. It’s easy to lean on past history, except for Woods that means surgeries on his back and right leg dating to 2014, the left knee the decade prior. Woods is an eight-time winner at Bay Hill, but the last of those was 10 years ago. He was swinging a club in November, playing a 36-hole event with his son while riding a cart in December and playing the Masters five months later. He spent the summer in a makeshift hospital bed in his Florida home. It was two years ago when his SUV went off the road in the Los Angeles suburbs going nearly 87 mph and tumbled down a hill.
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