Decisions, decisions. Does the West Roxbury city councilor (who also reps JP) roll the dice for 2009 and get ready to run for mayor next year (assuming Tom Menino decides he's had enough) or does he roll the dice for this fall and get ready to run for state senate (assuming Marian Walsh gets named a judge)?

In either case, he could face opposition from fellow councilors - in the mayor's race, from Michael Flaherty, who's been salivating after the mayor's office for awhile now (and who ended 2007 with $428,414.52 in the bank, according to the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance); in the senate race, from Rob Consalvo, whom I doubt anybody outside of Hyde Park and Roslindale has ever heard of, unless you remember his campaign to ban the sale of mini-bikes.