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Self professed un-politician seeks at-large seat on city council
By adamg on Mon, 04/15/2013 - 1:18pm
Shaun Ivers, a Jamaica Plain real-estate agent and consultant, said today he's running for one of the four at-large city-council seats this fall, vowing not to become another mayoral kowtower engaging in "meaningless soapbox grandstanding:"
Although I have worked with politicians in the course of pursuing school and housing causes, I am not of the politician’s class. I do not come from a family of self-entitled politicians, nor have I ever been a legislative aid bidding my time until I can win an election to become the boss.
Ivers, who moved to Boston from Philadelphia six years ago, says he would bring:
A fresh perspective and new ideas to bolster innovation, increase job security, reduce homelessness and create new treatment opportunities for those suffering from addiction.
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Comments
Shaun Ivers
Thank you for printing the quote as the candidate presented it. The last thing we need is another barely literature politician in the field. The word is "biding" - although I've got to admit that "bidding" is perhaps more accurate.
Barely literature?
Barely literature?
When have
you ever met an intelligent Real Estate Agent, the smart ones are selling large commercial building and $1m+ brownstones not rentals and condo units.
Sold
That pose convinces me he is a sober, intelligent man who can be trusted at the public trough. Maybe next time he could throw down some gang signs to help him connect with the younger voters.
My first impression from his picture
"I can put you in one our brand new Chevrolet Impalas for only $199 a month. Come on down!"
My first impression
http://faithgrip.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/buddy...
Carpetbaggers
So how many candidates that are from outside of Boston and Massachusetts does this make?
He's lived in Boston for six years
Carpetbagger?
Can these people from other
Can these people from other cities and states stop trying to run our city. I don't care if they are from another race or if they are men or women but for the love of God can we get people to run for office that are born and raised here?
Really? You want someone with
Really? You want someone with no non-Boston experiences, ever? Sorry, I like my elected representative to have had a taste of life away from the Common. Perhaps they even went to a good, out-of-state university and got a degree.
It's not like he moved here last week.
That said, for some reason this guy makes me think of Walter Sobchak, and for no good reason.