Posted on 05/23/2009 9:34:13 PM PDT by raccoonradio
Swine flu is so April, but here’s Mumbles Menino, stepping to the microphone to brief the city on the closing of Boston Latin.
“I ask for your continued core-op-peration and patience as we take the appropriate steps to take - keep residents healthy. And this decision, let me just say wasn’t done, wasn’t done . . . a lot of thought, a lot of consideration in it.”
Kind of like his campaign for another four-year term as mayor of Boston. This is an incumbent who, despite rampant street crime and even more rampant corruption at City Hall, can still raise $130,000 in the first 15 days of this month. A staggering sum in this economy.
“And over 200 students, Latin students, have been out sick the last two days. Many of the students have reported bein’ sick with flu-like illnesses. And let me just put this in - this is not a time for panic. But it is a time to be cautious.”
Yes it is. Mumbles may be stupid, but he retains a certain low street cunning. He understands the only number in that recent citywide poll that mattered was 60 percent. That’s where he’s stuck, even running against nobodies with baggage, and 60 percent is where he’ll stay. Whichever nobody survives the preliminary in September is just one . . . disaster away.
That’s why Mumbles keeps polling. If he really believed he was way, way ahead, why did he run all those TV spots about crime?
“If you are sick, stay home from work or school. Seek medical addic-attet-tion - attention at your doctor community center or hospital if you have severe illness.”
Mumbles asks people he runs into: What’s up with Flaherty? Do you see Yoon anywhere? He says he wants Flaherty, the 02127 candidate, and he probably means it. As unlikely as it seems now, perhaps Yoon could conceivably excite the . . . excitable types, the blow-ins who might decide that Mumbles is this year’s Tom Reilly or Hillary Clinton, if you get my drift.
Still, it’s hard to imagine Yoon catching fire. He looks like the kind of guy you’d see geekishly hanging out of a duck boat some Saturday afternoon, complete with pocket protector and camera around his neck, pointing out the ducklings to his kids. In short, a tourist.
Mumbles remains the prohibitive favorite. If Flaherty’s coatholders really thought he was going to win, why are two of them running for City Council? Mumbles is about to get a lot of new dough in the form of the local-option cheeseburger tax, as he calls it. The Senate’s already OK’d it, and the House budget writer is Charlie Murphy, from Burlington. His town could make up its budget deficit just off the skim from the food court at the Burlington Mall.
Sure, Boston is on the ropes, but Mumbles can always point the finger at somebody else. Free fall - that’s the term he uses to describe the economy, and who can dispute him?
Meanwhile Mumbles never misses a ribbon-cutting. In the winter, he was in Fields Corner, bragging about how the new post office was “handicack accessible,” and thanking “Congressman Capuano’s officer” for getting the funding.
“So I wanna thank you folks for your, your trust in in the neighborhoods of our, of our city and thank you for the work you do in the so many different ways and sayin’ thank you for the work you do as the Main Street manager Evelyn for the great work you do. Thank you very much.”
If Mumbles isn’t worried, how come he sweats so much?
Howie Carr Sunday Herald column ping.
Howie is off from his show on Monday but will be in the rest of the week.
Thank woo
BUMP
Makes Kevin White look like a messiah.
Avi was on for Howie yesterday but Howie will back the rest of the week. I was on Cape Cod driving my Dad (88 yrs old)
to the Centerville Mem. Day Parade, etc.
I note that when there are weekday afternoon games the Sox
are on 96.3 not 95.1, thus freeing up the latter for Rush
and Howie. (I think weekend games are still on 95.1 though)
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