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Rob Consalvo announces he's running
By adamg on Thu, 04/04/2013 - 10:19am
City Councilor Rob Consalvo (Hyde Park, Roslindale, Mattapan) says he's running for mayor. His statement:
Boston City Councilor Rob Consalvo announced today that he would be a candidate for Mayor of Boston. Rob pledged to lead Boston into its next generation of greatness and continue working at making Boston better.
"For the last 11 years I have built a very strong record as a Boston City Councilor bringing new ideas, new energy, and new vision all across our city," Consalvo said.
Under Consalvo's leadership, the city has embraced new "Shotspotter" technology that has enabled Boston police officers to respond at the scene within minutes of shots being fired.
As a parent of two Boston Public School children, Consalvo has strongly advocated for the Boston Public Schools and worked with parents to create an innovative community school district in Roslindale – the first of its kind in the city and a model for the new assignment plan.
Under Consalvo's leadership, Boston became the first city to pass an ordinance called "John's Law" to help stop drunken driving. John's law and a similar law in New Jersey served as the catalyst for national legislation later passed by Congress.
Consalvo authored a groundbreaking foreclosure law that holds banks accountable for blighted properties in Boston's neighborhoods.
"I am running for Mayor because I love the City of Boston and I am prepared and ready to serve all of our neighborhoods. I have a proven record of innovation, leadership, compassion, and a strong commitment to public service," Consalvo said. "Boston is a great city. But there are ways to make it even greater and to make sure everyone in it benefits from that greatness – and that is what I want to do."
Consalvo will formally kick-off his campaign later this month.
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HAHA
Good Luck! Rob this is a chance for Boston to elect change, not Toms Mini Me!
so...
...that explains why he was at a YMCA breakfast...in Eastie. He's building up his international relations cred.
That should about wrap it up
Conley has almost $1 million in the bank - even assuming he hardly needs an extra dollar the typical mayoral election cycle (all 4 years) usually garners less than $2 million in contributions and you probably need $750k-$1 million to have a reasonable shot.
Assume Connolly gets another $600k (just to get him to $1 million - not picking sides here) and Consalvo grabs another half million (no idea what his current war chest looks like) - there might be room for one more - say an Arroyo that grabs another half million - that pretty much uses up all the mayoral campaign dollars available in the city. After that it's also rans.
Maybe this will turn into a Brown/Warren thing and people will come out of the woodwork with bags of money - but I'm not expecting to see that much passion over this set of traditional candidates (Arroyo being the wild card). And if I'm a power broker of any significance - I sit on the sidelines as long as I can before me and my cronies throw $500 bucks at someone unless you just throw $500 at all of them, but why bother - it'll be a two man race in the fall no matter what - pick your poison then.
Jesus Christ
Is there anyone who ISN'T running?
Just going to leave this here
http://bostonbastard.com/tag/rob-consalvo/
Amusing thought...
I just got an amusing thought. Imagine if Menino decided to troll all of Boston by saying he's not running to get a huge field of candidates then announces "I have decided to run after all!" just to crush all the candidates jumping in despite the negative costs to changing mind.
ADAMG FOR MAYOR!!!
ADAMG FOR MAYOR!!!
HAHA
NO!
So disappointing
Consalvo - Italian white guy.
Conley - Irish white guy.
Connolly - Irish white guy.
Will Dorcena - Haitian black guy.
Charles Clemons - also a black guy.
60% white, 100% male.
We need someone like Jesse Mermell to run. Young, female, and already proven capable of executive duties (running the town of Brookline as one of its selectmen).
didn't know
race and sex had anything to do with qualification. But to good to see what your priorities are when selecting a candidate.
So true
Race and sex have never played a role in politics.
Exactly
Exactly dummy- it has been a bad practice and will continue to be a bad practice with different biases. Do you work for Claudio Martinez or something?
Broader range of choices
If you can't see why having access to candidates with different gender, racial and ethnical backgrounds would improve choice and give greater variety to the points of view heard from the candidates...well, you prove my point.
Kaz, do explain to me how it
Kaz, do explain to me how it improves choice. I don't see how your answer can be anything but full of stereotypes. The assumption that two people of different skin colors or sex, cannot share the same outlook on life or morality, is itself a prejudice. If you see the world through this filter, you are in fact working in opposition to the goal of equality. I will give you that as a result of this thinking, people often choose to define themselves by society's stereotypes and this reinforce the cycle. Anyway, I urge you to look at positions, actions and qualifications and not skin color or sex. You may find they are in fact the same. Who knows. To a better world.
It
You saying you voting for whatever minority decides to run.
Qualifications
If you want to say Consalvo is a bad candidate because he hasn't shown any concern about issue x, y or z -great! If you think that the fact that he's Italian American is an issue because we've already hit our quote of white male candidates, you have other motives. If you want to root for some candidate to enter the race, I'd hope that's based on what they'd bring to the race in terms of qualifications, effectiveness and ideas rather than just their demographics.
I don't care if a Martian is mayor as long as they can provide the city with good leadership.
I'm delighted we'll have some real debate about who will be the next mayor between several candidates- that will be a big improvement over the previous few rounds of hack vs. the Menino machine.
amusing
Not that you're necessarily defending or advocating for Consalvo here, but it's amusing that you're talking about "hack vs. Menino machine" and referencing Consalvo, who can play either side of that equation.
And why do people always reference Martians when they're talking about how color-blind and "post-racial" they are. "I don't care if it's a Martian.." Well I do! No fucking Martians in my town man! Freaking aliens...sheesh.
As far as candidates of color go, unfortunately I'm not impressed by what's available at this point. But then again I don't think much of the white guys either. I have no clue whom I will vote for. I'm a prime candidate for one of these guys to come over and blow..er.. impress me. My vote's hanging out there for you to woo.
Is this what you do when you
Is this what you do when you meet people? Hi I'm Peter.
Your head: "Peter, white Italian male, this means he likes spaghetti.. Therefore Peter only likes Italians who eat spaghetti and could never run for Office to represent my friend Mike. Because Mike is Irish. And on this note, all I see is race and sex. Perhaps I'm a sexist racist?"
Of course not!
Clearly I'm far too dumb to think in complete sentences as you suggest.
kaz highlights the isms of the modern democratic party
Real race neutral politics wouldn't mention race or gender at all. But in today's democratic party it just matters if you are the first woman, the first hispanic, the first female transgender southeast asian, and then we vote based on that.
How about the fact that they are all democrats? How about that they all come from government?
Most importantly of all, What about where they stand on any issue, any issue at all???? Nothing has changed since high school class president, it is just a popularity contest, nothing to do with what they would do if elected.
Does candidate A support charter schools? Does candidate B want to get rid of the BRA?
No the truth is they are all political hacks who are happy with the inefficient, borderline corrupt way that the city of Boston is run, and they just want to be King the way Menino was. The women or minorities who have been mentioned as candidates are just the same.
When there is a choice, wake me up.
I'll take
all the "isms" of the Democratic Party, over the Tokenism of the GOP, anyday.
Last time I checked the MA GOP is 11% and shrinking. The national GOP has a major problem with not having women or minorities in their ranks of leadership. There's even talk of a the 2014 mid-terms not going over so well for the party.
But yeah, nice of your concern for the Democrats. Just more Republican tears and victimhood.
I'm a lifelong democrat
And I don't think I've ever voted for a Republican. But, as an open minded person I'm interested in choices and different viewpoints. Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, would you vote for him?
The problem with knee jerk, 'I vote for democrats only' is that the hackarama in this city takes advantage of you by parroting your viewpoints while continuing to run a bloated inefficient government. You don't care because they are for civil rights, or gay rights, or Green, or divest South Africa, while continuing to line their fiscal pockets with the money that really matters.
Just because the GOP (which I admit seems to have its share of racists, sexists, religious fanatics) is at 11 percent doesn't mean that one of them might be a great Mayor of Boston. Are you excluding the 11 percent because they are a minority?
This article sums up Liberalism
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014241278873240...
The corn field called. They
The corn field called. They want their straw man back.
Consalvo US American Conley
Consalvo US American
Conley US American
Connolly US American
Dorcena US American
Clemons US American
Walsh US American
There are all Native people. Tell the truth Kaz. They were all born here as far as I know