What if this had been the Tea Party asking to stay? For one thing the TP wouldn’t camp out and you wouldn’t see these conditions to begin with
...and the City of Boston would no doubt remove the Tea Partiers for the domestic terrorists they consider them to be...
I live in the North End and you’d be surprised how Menino is disliked here, as he is by businesses on Newbury Street, two places you’d think he’d be loved. He’s pushed all kinds of tax changes here, such as taxing residences in the North End as if they are ‘waterfront property’. A prominent bookstore owner on Newbury Street gave me a startlingly hateful diatribe against Menino just before he closed his doors forever.
There were Tea Party rallies here, and I literally walked through the Paul Revere park MINUTES after they ended and didn’t even know an assembly had gone on, that’s how clean the place was.
When I walk to work past the Hippie Hovels, it’s like I’ve taken a wrong turn into Calcutta.