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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Check out the end of this Herald article which tells how Mayor Menino and his friends joked about the e-mail scandal at a Councilor Tobin event last night. Note: the mayor was skipping an East Boston event to attend this toast.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tiny.cc/b9l8m&quot;&gt;http://tiny.cc/b9l8m&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The mayor turned down the East Boston event and instead attended a ritzy gala on Newbury Street, where he was given an achievement award. Later that night he went to a 40th birthday party fund-raiser for Councilor John Tobin at a West Roxbury Elks Club.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Menino Trashes MassVote , snubs voters – all in one day!</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;In a story that ran in &lt;a href=&quot;http://bostonherald.com/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1182766&quot;&gt;today&#039;s Boston Herald&lt;/a&gt;, Mayor Menino&#039;s campaign trashed a non-profit organization whose sole purpose is to provide voters with the resources they need for civic engagement. The organization, MassVote, works to increase voter education and turnout amongst communities of color, youth, the disabled and in ethnic communities where language is a barrier. Since its creation in 1999, MassVote has helped empower thousands of Massachusetts voters.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
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