Future clearer than a Menino quote
by Howie Carr
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Run, Mumbles, run.
Not that Hizzoner needs any encouragement from me or anyone else. All signs indicate that hes made up his mind to seek a sixth, or seventh, or whatever term.
(Click on the Herald page here for some of Mayor Thomas Menino's greatest audio hits.)
Exhibit A: Hes finally moving out of the Parkman House. If he were planning to lame-duck it, why return to North Dedham, er Readville? He must go back to being a man of the people, not Liveshot Kerrys high-hat neighbor in Ward 5.
Exhibit B: Hes running the little fundraisers again, the $25-a-head times with city employees. How much simpler it is to raise $500 a pop from everyone in the extended families of the bar owners, the developers and the city contractors you know, the ones who didnt plow the streets this winter.
The mayor has already got more than enough dough on hand to crush Whats-his-name, but he needs these small contributions to show that hes not a tool of the big-money interests, although of course he is, not that any mayor is ever anything but.
These are hopeful signs to all of us who understand how much the mayor means to the city, and we have the sound cuts to prove it. The golden age of Boston pro sports is ending no more jumbletrons or potta-potties lining victory parade routes for the Red Sock.
But Mumbles still roots for the citys ionic teams. Sure, Wes Wexler may be gone, but theres that tight end, Grabowski. I mean, Gonk. Hes as valuable to the Pats as KJ and Hondo are to the Celts. And by the way, wasnt it terrible what that guy said Friday about the wife of Vince Wilcott, er, Wilfork.
Hizzoner is 70 now, but just cause you got a few gray hairs doesnt mean youre over the hell.
As ever, he looks to the future, to a city mooing forward. Some problems remain, rats for instance, but the mayor is working on ways to radicate the problem.
In the meantime, Young people are fudding, not fleeing the city.
Ya hear that, Councilor Connolly. Just like in the days when Martha Luther King Jr. moved here to go to BU, theyre still fudding the city. Because the Menino administration is trying to bridge the grap.
No gender gap for Hizzoner We must unlock the potential of all our woman.
Mumbles knows what is expected of him he must develop stregic plans to bing business to the city. And he is. Just look at New Balance ca-spanding in Brighton.
All these months on the disabled list have given the mayor time to ruminate. Sometimes we forget what a philosopher he is.
We know this country didnt become great by excludin folks and leavin each other on their om.
Om om om Actually, leaving people on their om hasnt worked out that badly for some, but Buddhists remain a very small percentage of the Boston electorate.
Will we move forward together or will we go back to the tricks, trickle-down philosophy that Mitt Romney believes in?
A resounding no to that tricky trickle-down trick thing. So what, Mayor, is job one?
Our first tasker task is improvin public education in our city.
Stop me if youve heard this before. And knock on wood youll be hearing it for four more years.
>>Some state reps continue to cash in on a lucrative perk their constituents dont get hefty per diem reimbursements that pay them thousands of dollars simply for commuting to the State House in an unchecked honor system.
Leading the list in 2011 is state Rep. John Binienda (D-Worcester), who put in for 241 days and was reimbursed $8,676. Others include state Rep. Ted Speliotis (D-Danvers), whose 237 days garnered $4,266, and former state Rep. Martha Walz, who claimed 220 days for $2,200. State Reps. John Fresolo, (D-Worcester), Alice Peisch (D-Wellesley) and Paul Donato (D-Medford) all claimed 218 days...Fresolo claimed the most days for any rank-and-file member without a leadership post. He did not return phone calls yesterday.
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Fresolo has other issues to deal with