Thomas M. Menino, Boston’s longest serving mayor, has died at 71

bostonglobe.com ^ | 10/30/2014 | Bryan Marquard and Jim O’Sullivan

[massmike]

Thomas Michael Menino, who insisted a mayor doesn’t need a grand vision to lead, then went on to shepherd Boston’s economy and shape the skyline and the very identity of the city he loved through an unprecedented five consecutive terms in City Hall, died Thursday. He was 71 and was diagnosed with advanced cancer not long after leaving office at the beginning of this year.

[Paine in the Neck]

Saint Peter’s trying to interview him at the Pearly Gates but can’t find a Mumbles translator.

[wardaddy]

He seems well liked

I saw him and uber GOPe Ed Gillespie embracing

Fill me in from the land Saint Theodore

[stephenjohnbanker]

L.A. is NOTHING like it was in 1976. It was by and large conservative. Then again, I remember when New Hampshire was too.

[Paine in the Neck]

Thomas Menino, five-time mayor of Boston, long time gun control advocate and co-founder of Mayors Against Illegal Guns died..

Don't forget political patron of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, otherwise known as Menino's Mosque

[PTBAA]

I’m pretty sure he cut a sweetheart deal to sell Muslims public property for next to nothing so that they could build a mosque in Boston. (So much for the separation of church and State.) I also believe that the Boston Bombers were members of that mosque.

I also believe he ran a “sanctuary” city.

America is better with his absence.

[muir_redwoods]

My thoughts and sympathies are with his family.

[cynwoody]

Howie on Mumbles. If the player doesn't work, hit the download button above it.

[GOPsterinMA]

Yep.

[stephenjohnbanker]

I figured as much.

[ex91B10]

Then again, I remember when New Hampshire was too.

Ah yes, the days of Mel Thompson and Bill Loeb.

[SeaHawkFan]

Saw him on a Man v. Food episode. Surprised anyone that fat lived to 71.

[PTBAA]

My memory was correct:

http://thephoenix.com/Boston/News/72356-Meninos-mosque/

[stephenjohnbanker]

I read it. All I can say is, it figures.

[Flick Lives]

I seem to remember a bible verse along the lines of “Judge not, that ye be not judged”.

[rrrod]

Just another vile Democrat scumbag....hell with him and his entire family!

[maryz]

As he did with Chick Fil A.

I never thought he was ever really comfortable with the politically correct (Chick Fil A, his participation in the Gay Pride parades, etc.), he just had us marching orders from the party -- his not to reason why, etc. Though I think he was quite comfortable with keeping Walmart out of Boston -- that's old line Dem: Walmart's not union!

[C210N]

Not a good day for Howie doing a “best of” in Mumbles memory, eh?

Probably right. Anyway, condolences to family.

[AU72]

And Menino wasn’t in his ‘Death Pool’.

[MasterGunner01]

And now ex-Mayor “Mumbles” Menino is room temperature. Boston's gun grabber-in-chief is now populating Dante's 8th Circle of Hell (Fraud). A well deserved end for such a political hack.

[outpostinmass2]

“When I finished college, I moved to Los Angeles, as it was as far away as I could get from Boston leftists, and stay gainfully employed : )”

You moved to lefter than Boston.