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The end of the City Hall corruption case

The Globe recounts what led to the dismissal of corruption charges against two aides to Mayor Walsh.

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Why shouldn't the city be able to specify union labor when it rents out its own land to a concert promoter?

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Funded by ALL Bostonians, isn't a union rep!

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City Hall officials were indicted on charges they threatened to withhold permits from organizers of the Boston Calling music festival unless they hired union members, a violation of the federal law prohibiting extortion.

There's that.

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not to use private land somewhere else in the city. If one of the rules for renting city land is that you use union labor, why is this bad?

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have been in academia, Ron, so I imagine the concept of being told you gotta use these guys to do this or there will be labor problems and possible breathing problems is foreign to you.

Anytime you want to hang around Local 25 I still know a few guys down there who would be happy to give you a verbal dissertation!

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But the actual events surrounding these charges didn’t concern local 25, and the big threat was not getting the necessary permits, not bodily harm.

Perhaps you should hang around a SEIU Union Hall. A bit of a different vibe.

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What planet are you from, kid?

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Only one of us has been in a union recently, I bet.

And apparently, only one of us knows the union involved in this story. (Hint- they weren’t Teamsters)

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However, I don’t know how long you’ve lived in this town, but your naïveté is alarming.

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I know what Teamsters Local 25 are like, but once again, this had nothing to do with them. That you won’t concede this speaks volumes of your ignorance when it comes to unions.

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greatly by allowing the promotion company to pay "employees" in t shirts and concert passes. Those union thugs want people to be paid a living wage. Outrageous.

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People are willing to work for barter instead. I think they're a bunch of scabs and schmucks too, but my response is to stand fast in my belief in markets, even labor markets which might not benefit me immediately.

I also don't want to pay for health insurance (unless it's for contraception) for anybody who would work for a T-shirt.

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Can I get your insights on both the ripple effect on the markets due to the new tariffs and the best time of day to go to H-Mart when they’re giving out the most samples?

The latter is a market I feel you have a better working knowledge of.

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What think tank granted you a fellowship?

You're my intellectual peer, not my superior.

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I know junkies down on Northampton Street that are your intellectual superiors. I, for one, will grant your superiority over me in one area: a more than working knowledge of cow tipping.

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You gotta spread them out a little more believably on a Saturday there, champ.

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Says a guy who learned the fine art of upvotes on his own crap from Doug Bennett. Take your lack of upvotes as a sign, yo.

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Did anyone else notice how fast Felix was pushed out, vs how long city hall union plants got to stick around?

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Like the fact the charges against them- you know, the reason they were in the paper- were dismissed before trial.

But sure, let's look at the comparisons. Sullivan and Brissette were in hot water over demanding that jobs at the Boston Calling event went to union workers. Arroyo was (and is) in hot water over sexual harassment charges. Yeah, Arroyo did nothing compared to these guys, right?

I mean, I get it. You hate unions, but the mayor came to his position with all but the least educated of voters knowing his union background. But if you want to defend sexual harassment, that's on you.

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http://fortune.com/2017/08/08/padma-lakshmi-top-chef-teamsters/

Happy too see your good friends are still employed.

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I didn't see either of those two men mentioned in the article.

So, all union people look the same to you, or what?

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Are you saying these teamsters work at city hall for the mayor? Or are you saying you hate all unions? Do you hate that people earn a living wage? Are you an elitist?

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We have so many people and so few jobs that we even need to have a talk about a "living wage."

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Corruption still lives on in Boston Politics and City Hall

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Advertising for Bids for Stenographic Services at Boston City Council shall be done more widely to get more competitive Bids and more up to date technology/software optimal for hard of hearing folks, for ESL English Second Language folks, for all folks.

No more grandfathering in the same Contributor to Councilors' Campaigns with out of date technology/software.

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I would add the electronic cataloguing of erroneous weather forecasts to your concept.

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