Posted on 12/24/2025 7:37:02 AM PST by Red Badger
(Screenshot via @mayorlawrenceema on Instagram)
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Lawrence, Massachusetts, Mayor Brian De Peña — a Dominican Republic native — requested a Spanish interpreter during a Friday hearing tied to a state police-oversight case, according to The Daily Wire.
The episode lit up social media and renewed questions about how a big-city mayor functions in government and legal settings when he says he needs translation help, the Wire reported. The interpreter flap also landed as De Peña is already feuding with Massachusetts’ top elections office after the state flooded Lawrence polling sites with monitors and police, according to NBC Boston.
“Today, I received many complaints, and I see many people, you know, not happy because the state interferes when the people need somebody for support,” De Peña said during the city’s Nov. 4 election, NBC Boston reported.
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. The mayor of Lawrence, Massachusetts CAN’T speak English, so he begged for a translator in court.
Anyone seeking public office in America should be REQUIRED to be fluent in English.
This shouldn’t be controversial. At all.
pic.twitter.com/A771m8qUza
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 21, 2025
The interpreter request surfaced in a Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission proceeding listed as a “Hearing in the Matter of William Castro,” a multi-day case scheduled in December. The Daily Wire reported De Peña asked to use his personal assistant as a translator, and the presiding judge rejected that request.
Castro, a former acting Lawrence police chief, has been under scrutiny for a vehicle pursuit and what investigators and state officials described as dishonesty in reporting, according to Boston ABC affiliate WCVB. The city-commissioned investigator said an adviser from De Peña’s office ordered the probe to stop after the investigators had finished their work and moved to draft the final report.
De Peña’s campaign website “About Me” section reads like it was run through a rough translation app, with sentences such as: “Brian DePeña was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. However it was in Miches, that Brian grew up with his parents and siblings,” followed by, “It is here, where Brian interest in entrepreneurship is awakened.”
The mayor has also been battling Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin, whose office sent monitors and Massachusetts State Police to all Lawrence polling sites on Election Day and said it had observed campaign tactics that “likely rise to the level of criminal activity,” NBC Boston reported.
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Freebies are all that count to these boobs that vote D
Correct. They just want to punish Trump.
#TDS is real.
Here we go again (and again)....
The free world is in great danger because people like this are getting political and high end positions in our countries...
Deuteronomy 28, Curses for diobedience to God’s law
43 The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower. 44 They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, but you will be the tail.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2028&version=NIV
Brian De Pena - D ominicant
Here he is doing an interview after he was re-elected Mayor of Lawrence. Yes, his English is spotty at best, but he seems to understand the questions being asked of him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=717KFplEx98
It is sure happening................
“This is what happens when people see (D) and just blindly vote for it. They don’t care a whit about whether they are voting for a dog or a person, just so long as it’s a Democrat.................”
I’ve said many times, Dems would vote for a soup can if it was on the ballot as a “D”. This is yet another of the many reasons I have a low opinion of much of the American public.
That’s a huge factor, you’re right.
A lot of people don’t even know who they’re voting for, they just vote based on if it’s a Democrat or Republican.
Do Democrats ALWAYS have vote, guided by pure stupidity?
Wait, don’t answer that...
It looks like Lawrence was right in the middle of the original Gerrymander.
There used to be, and probably still are, places where they have ‘straight ticket ballots’ that have just one party’s candidates on them, so the voters can conveniently vote for all one party. They don’t even know who they are voting for in many cases...............
Some traffic concerned appointee in NYC does a safety commercial and he’s barely intelligible. It sounds like a comedy bit.
I read the Bible but couldn’t remember that.
The Bible is 3,500 years (with the old testament) of wisdom ignored by most.
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I always look at the Bible like a really old and wise man that tries to give a young dumb kid that thinks he’s smart advise.
The kid often ignores the wisdom of the old man, and seldom does it work out well for the kid in the long run.
Maxine Water’s constituents can’t speak English either.
I know a person who is a big Dem. All he cares about is his “benefits” which are mainly VA. OK, he earned them. But he is their slave, he believes he is dead meat without Dems in office. Democrat politicians are his Mommy.
People in Massachusetts can barely speak English. That’s why they keep electing foreign maggots.
It is the expression of Evil.
I don’t think it can be said more succinctly!
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