Sam Yoon

First Kardashian and Humphries, now Yoon and Flaherty

adamg — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:02:13 +0000

The Dorchester Reporter notes that oon sent out a city-council endorsement e-mail from his new aerie in Washington that doesn't mention fl.

Flaherty: Yoon forced out of Boston by Menino minions

adamg — Fri, 13 May 2011 11:13:06 +0000

The Dig interviews Michael Flaherty on his bid to get back on the City Council and asks him if he stays in touch with the latter half of Floon, now down in DC. He does:

[H]e definitely misses Boston, and quite frankly wishes that he never had to move, but after having run for mayor I think that there was a tremendous amount of pressure, and he was having difficulty finding a job because the administration seemed to be going out of their way to prevent that from happening.

You can take the Yoons out of Boston, but you can't take the Boston out of the Yoons

adamg — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:09:06 +0000

One of the schools Carol Johnson wants to eliminate is the Lee Academy pilot school in Dorchester, which Sam Yoon's kids went to before they moved to Washington:

Via Gin Dumcius.

Oh, yeah, wasn't there some guy running for mayor who had a proposal for this sort of thing?

adamg — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:24:27 +0000

Globe: City repair shop found in complete disarray - Study finds ineptitude, infighting, and waste.

Hmm, whatever happened to Sam Yoon?

Meanwhile, the city has appointed some guy to try to clean up the garage.

Sam Yoon packs up, moves out of Boston

adamg — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 01:14:01 +0000

David Bernstein gets the scoop: The former city councilor and mayoral hopeful is leaving Dorchester for Falls Church, Va. and a new job in community development.

What's the 2010 census got to do with Sam Yoon?

rsiasoco — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:52:39 +0000

Driving home last night, I caught part of an episode of On Point with Tom Ashbrook. The topic was the 2010 U.S. Census. I've been interested in the forthcoming census (forms will be mailed next week): its dessimination, its implications, and, of course, the breakdown of our nation by race and ethnicity.

Tom Menino can serve until he dies

adamg — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:52:40 +0000

The City Council today rejected a proposed limit on how long somebody can serve as mayor.

While backers of the measure, sponsored by at-large Councilor Sam Yoon, said it would reinvigorate the political process and prevent the abuses of incumbency, opponents said it was insulting to tell voters they could not vote for the candidate of their choice as often as they want.

Against: Ciommo, Consalvo, Feeney, LaMattina, Linehan, Murphy, Yancey.
For: Connolly, Flaherty, Ross, Tobin, Turner, Yoon.

The council voted 8-5 to reject a proposal by at-large Councilor John Connolly to limit city councilors as well; Ross, who voted for mayoral term limits, voted against.

Comments from councilors before the vote:

Council debates mayoral term limits

adamg — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:44:31 +0000

In its last week of existence, the current city council this morning is debating a proposal by outgoing at-large City Councilor Sam Yoon to limit Boston mayors to two terms. The council will vote on the measure - which would require approval by the mayor and the state legislature - on Wednesday.

Councilor Yoon's last gasp: Mayoral term limits

adamg — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:06:08 +0000

Sam Yoon is asking his supporters to barrage city councilors with phone calls to convince them to vote on a measure to limit Boston mayors to two terms in office. The proposal currently sits in Maureen Feeney's committee on government operations - to which a proposal to keep the city-council president from becoming mayor if the sitting mayor resigns has also been consigned.

Yoon, not Floon, endorses four at-large candidates

adamg — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:05:56 +0000

The Man Who Would Be Deputy Mayor today endorsed Felix Arroyo, John Connolly, Tito Jackson and Ayanna Pressley. His reasoning, in e-mail to supporters:

Political satire hits the Hub

Bwilson — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:19:19 +0000

Kinda clever and more then just a little funny.

Yoon to McCrea: Quack, quack

adamg — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:08:17 +0000

Last week the potential deputy mayor told the Jamaica Plain Gazette that Kevin McCrea didn't get any more votes than Donald Duck would have. Oh, and Floon joked about the number of public-records and open-meeting complaints filed by McCrea - including, you know, the lawsuit against the City Council, Michael Flaherty, president, that McCrea won:

"We'll create a position called the Division of Kevin McCrea Information Requests," Yoon joked. Flaherty quickly added that a better name would be "McFOIA."

Guess what? McCrea tells the paper this week that Yoon called to apologize after the remarks showed up on the paper's Web site.

Can Floon win more black votes?

adamg — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:57:23 +0000

At yesterday's deputy-mayor press conference/rally, Michael Flaherty never introduced the guy standing right up there with him and Sam Yoon: Former state Senator Bill Owens, who had endorsed Yoon in August. But is the presence of the man defeated by Dianne Wilkerson in 1992 enough to increase Flaherty's vote getting in black neighborhoods?

Chris Lovett writes it could be the deciding factor in Flaherty's bid for mayor, because Yoon peaked in areas with traditionally low turnout in general city elections, such as Jamaica Plain, Back Bay and Allston/Brighton. Lovett talks to former city councilor Larry DiCara about turnout, especially in minority areas where Menino did particularly well.

Flaherty predicts tide of new voters will sweep him - and Yoon - into office

adamg — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:00:07 +0000

As he introduced the man who would be his deputy mayor, Michael Flaherty predicted 40,000 to 60,000 more people would come to the polls in November - and that the majority of them would vote for change.

"About half the people who voted last Tuesday voted for change," Flaherty said at a City Hall Plaza press conference at which he and Sam Yoon outlined their proposed agenda - which includes dismantling the BRA, performance reviews across all departments and a 311 system.

Roughly 81,000 people voted in this month's preliminary elections, which saw incumbent Mayor Tom Menino take 51% of the vote, with Flaherty and Yoon splitting most of the rest.

Historic change for Boston

michaelflaherty — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:56:56 +0000

Dear Universal Hub,

Tomorrow, we are announcing our historic ticket to change Boston politics forever.