Weirdest Boston robo-call

adamg — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:56:28 +0000

Michael Pahre tweets:

Robo-call for Rob Fortes for Councilor-At-Large... with Mitt Romney speaking. Does Fortes think fewest votes wins in Boston?

Second Republican to jump into city-council race

adamg — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:19:52 +0000

David Bernstein reports that Robert Fortes is jumping into the race for an at-large seat on the city council. Fortes is that rarest of Boston rarities - a black Republican - and joins Doug Bennett, the man from Nantucket, as a GOP standard-bearer this fall. Or rather, he would, if Boston had partisan elections, which it doesn't. Still, local Republicans haven't seen this much activity since John Sears retired as a city councilor back in the day, unless you count DINO Dapper O'Neil.