Ganim: Candidate Forums “Almost All White.” Wants Events With Diverse Audiences.

Bridgeport mayor and Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Joseph Ganim has written to party chairman Nick Balleto to complain about the makeup of candidate forum audiences. Ganim refers to dozens of town committee forums around the state and concludes, “It is obvious to any observer that those in attendance at these forums are almost all white, even though almost 33% of Connecticut residents are black or Latino.”

Ganim urges Balletto to act to reverse the trend.  “As Chairman of Connecticut’s Democratic Party, I urge you to use your good office to lead the effort to set up statewide candidate forums that specifically reach out to Democratic voters in communities of color in order to increase access and participation by all in our state.”