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Poor Sam Yoon

Michael Jonas argues we should be celebrating a city councilor who calls a hearing on ways of saving money instead of concentrating on dirty tricks like City Hall sending a guy in a wheelchair down to the hearing site because somebody there knew there wouldn't be a ramp available and then alerting the Herald.

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Hearing didn't go so well for Sam Yoon.

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I think this shows Yoons inexperience though. When it comes to managing any event many people who have been in the business for a while will tell you that checking for things is something that should be done while planning an event. If someone is making rookie mistakes then maybe they are a rookie. Even if it was staged, it showed that the Menino people had the foresight to know that the building was not accesible by wheelchair. As evil as it sounds, they at least know what they are doing.

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Yoon showed up at our civic assoc mtg last night and virtually demanded to be inserted into the agenda.
If he needs a schedule of when all the Dot civic meet and how to contact their president to be put on the agenda, look in the Dorchester Reporter

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Ug, all this sniping which ignores the actual substance what Yoon is saying or working on is exactly the problem Jonas points out. Today we learn that the Mayor is laying off teachers,cops, librarians and community center workers. Yoon's hearing - which I did attend - identified close to a hundred million in savings that the Mayor could have pursued - but that require real reform. Overtime budgets should be dealt with before we lay off teachers. Period. Ignore the hype, cover the substance.

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If Yoon can't be bother to get the details right on these meetings or get a campaign manger who can get these details right, I'm not confident he would be able to effectively run the city government without getting complete schooled by the various unions, special interests, BRA, etc... I'm still surprised by the time he demanded more information on the gunshot detection system after he skipped the meeting to discuss that very topic.

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I do not have a dog in the race, and am not anti Yoon but I do get sick and tired of up and coming politicians yelling at the establishment for every little problem, and for big complicated problems that are very hard to fix, only to see these same guys get pissed off when you call them out on not showing up to meeting, or considering things like wheelchair accesible meeting places. Deval Patrick says the same stuff when we ask questions about someone, who happens to be a great political friend, making 60 thousand more then she should in a position that sat unused for 12 years. When a politician says ignore the trivial stuff it really means that they think you should give them a freebie and allow them to go after their opponent for the same problems.

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Michael Jonas is spot on about the Herald's coverage (though straight up reporting of a council hearing on the city's finances is admittedly not their style). Just imagine if the Globe actually goes under, and Boston had only the Herald and Metro for daily news.

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Too many people in this city are drinking the "kool aid" of the mayor. This is his administration's fault.

First off, everyone is so afraid of Menino that it's hard to find a place that will even allow a hearing or anything that could be critical of him. That takes a lot of options off the table. Yoon finally found a place that would host his hearing which, contrary to what some of said, was directly related to a committee he chairs. Not to mention the fact that all the councilors have a right - in fact, a responsibility - to talk about the budget. It's the only real power they have.

When Sam finally was allowed to hold his hearing at Codman Sq. he tried to get a ramp. He went to hizzoner's staff and asked for one but didn't get it. I'm all for the rights of disabled. And their should have been a ramp there. But don't blame the person on a flight that crashed when the plane's engine failed. What are they supposed to do - not "fly"? Is Sam not supposed to engage the community and sit with the other councilors in their ivory (concrete) tower?

I'm so tired of this mayor using his fear tactics to play political games and set people up if they try to do anything new to help people.

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I think a better analogy is that Yoon was the pilot of the plane, and knew there was a problem with the landing gear and choose to go through with his flight anyway in hopes that it would not manifest itself.

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