John Gomes never gives up. For his entire lifetime, the Bridgeport mayoral candidate has been battling the odds, and he is not changing now. Gomes arrived in the United States at the age of 9 without his parents and could not speak English. He settled in a tough neighborhood in Bridgeport, a hardscrabble city surrounded by wealth in one of the richest states in the nation. He overcame multiple .
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