The ties that bind Joe Ganim and Tim Herbst

BRIDGEPORT — The VIP seating at Mario Testa’s pizza restaurant is not in the main dining room or at the bar, but around a small, metal patio table off the parking lot, outside of the kitchen door. That is where Testa, the city’s powerful Democratic boss, in good weather entertains other political movers-and-shakers. The atmosphere is nothing special. A building to one side, parked cars on the other, a small awning above, asphalt below. The conversation, however, has got to make up for it, particularly when Republican Tim Herbst is sitting there. “Occasionally I give him some advice,” Testa said recently. “Sometimes he gives me some advice.” Those private conversations also take place over the phone.

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