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Campaign notes: Floon finally visits the Filene's Hole, a reunion of also-rans, endorsements

Floon journeys to Downtown Crossing today to use The Hole as a backdrop for their call to force developers to put up performance bonds before they start digging.

Seems the majority owner of the Hole is sitting on $2.8 billion in cash and is looking for good investments, which apparently Boston isn't.

So if you're near Washington Street around 11:15 a.m., look for the matching candidates, the gaggle of supporters with big blue signs and the TV cameras. They're also promising "a special guest."

Sean Ryan, who didn't make the cut in the at-large city-council preliminaries reports he had dinner recently with the other six candidates who also didn't make it to November - at Kevin McCrea's South End place:

... Over pizza and soda, we shared humorous stories from the campaign, speculated about our future plans, and got to speak more freely than it is ever possible to do in the heat of a political race. The most interesting stories were those of self-realization: at least one candidate was happy to tell us that he had come away secure in the knowledge that he is not a "politician" and would seek to work outside of the system in the future. Another seems already to be gearing up for a second run (his new voice-mail message ends with an enthusiastic "See you in 2011!"). Several expressed a wish to spend more time with family in the future. ...

The South End News endorsed Menino for mayor, but says they'll be keeping their eye on him on the BRA and transparency. Also backing John Connolly, Felix Arroyo, Tito Jackson and Ayanna Pressley for at-large city council seats.

The Phoenix goes for Floon, saying the city would be better if "the mayor listened, dictated less, and attracted fresh blood and vibrant, new ideas." In district council races, the Phoenix goes for Henriquez over Turner, LaMattina over Kulikoski and Ciommo over Selvig

A Globe reporter spotted Doug Bennett running a red light the other day - in front of the Globe building. Bennett said everybody should obey traffic laws, then hung up on the reporter.

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They should have been doing this weeks ago, not days before the election.

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This story seems "Campaign news"-worthy, at least to me.

One of the minority candidates in the at-large city council race, Tomas Gonzalez, didn't cast a ballot in the elections for the first Hispanic councilor (Felix Arroyo, '01, '03), the first African-American governor (Deval Patrick, '06), or the first African-American president of the US (Barack Obama, '08).

Yet he and all the other candidates talk about how important it is for "the community" to participate and vote. This sort of extreme hypocrisy is one of the many reasons people turn their backs on the political process.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/200...

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but I believe Gonzalez was working on both Obama's & Patrick's campaign outside of Boston '08 & '06 as explained in the article and didnt get an absentee ballot in time. These things can happen. Gonzalez's record working in the community and on city elections is well known. Probably why Will Woodlief calls him a "natural born community organizer" and the Herald endorsed him.

http://bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view/20...

Not sure why you put the community in quotes, looks like race baiting to me.

PS-I thought Dave Wedge strictly covered Facebook related stories these days.

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the builder to spend their cash, maybe we should, you know, be investigating the deeper issue of why they think Boston is a bad investment? Might it have something to do with our development policies and practices?

Na! VOTE MENINO!

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