Posted on 07/26/2012 10:38:57 AM PDT by massmike
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino repeated today that he doesn’t want Chick-fil-A in Boston, but he backed away from a threat to actively block the fast-food chain from setting up shop in the city.
“I can’t do that. That would be interference to his rights to go there,” Menino said, referring to company president Dan Cathy, who drew the mayor’s wrath by going public with his views against same-sex marriage.
The mayor added: “I make mistakes all the time. That’s a Menino-ism.”
Last week, the Herald first reported Menino saying “it will be very difficult” for Chick-fil-A to obtain licenses for a restaurant in Boston.
Menino acknowledged Cathy’s freedom to express his views, but was unapologetic about his own tough stance that’s become national news.
“Some people might not like these positions, but as mayor of the city of Boston, you can’t run and hide, and I’ll always protect people’s rights,” Menino said.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Menino, Romney...
MA voters are dumb, but then, so is the GOP. They always go for liberals.
BTW, has anybody asked Romney his opinion on this?
The mayor added: “I make mistakes all the time. That’s a Menino-ism.”
It's thuggish behavior. On the order of RACKETING and civil rights discrimination against a business owner.
DNC Brownshirts and Gaystapo don't care. They will still deny permits. Happens all the time.
City governments have been empowered by Bambi’s insane assertion of government power, and suddenly they don’t think they’re just sitting there issuing permits based on realistic, practical criteria: they’re now enforcing ideological requirements. This is happening even in my own small town.
Hang onto your hats, kids. This is only going to get worse.
What a blowhard.
The internets are swarming with socialists who believe that pink listing businesses and people is OKAY but universally condemn the Hollywood blacklist of known Communist sympathizers and agents.
Had lunch at CfA 2 days ago. Will be going again Aug. 1.
I’m not normally a patron but will be now.
Menino must mean “pwned” in Italian.
Ummmm! Where’s ultra liberal Romney’s picture?
Willard is the one who forced homosexual marriage onto the masses in MA.
That’s the image of a pedophile and sodomite if I’ve ever seen one!
I know! And upon further review,I forgot about Scott “Repeal DADT” Brown,too....
Tough to keep up with ‘em here!
Sen. Scott Brown invites hardcore Mass. homosexual activist to “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” repeal signing ceremony in D.C.
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/10d/brown_dadt/lang.html
Translation: the polling has come back to the sodomy-celebrating Menino, and it doesn’t look good.
He looks like a Wendy’s kind of guy.
America might run on Dunkin’, but Tommy Boy definitely does.
The third one from the left on the first row looks like a criminal posing in front of a police camera.
“I make mistakes all the time. That’s a Menino-ism.”
The biggest of all: being born!
Nanny Bloomberg must have also gotten some similar legal advice after saying that the police should go on strike until new gun control laws are implemented. In NY, it's illegal for an elected official to advocate a public strike.
It's amazing how these leftist pols show their totalitarian colors every chance they get.
Mark
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