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Michael Flaherty to retire from City Council

At-large City Councilor Michael Flaherty of South Boston announced today this year will be his last on the council.

Flaherty, who will have completed 20 years as an at-large councilor - and who once ran for mayor - said it is "now time to turn the page and move on to the next chapter of my life."

Flaherty did not say what that might be, except it will not involve running for another public office. He promised, though, "I will continue to fight in my own way, in a new way, to help keep Boston the best major city in America in which to live, work, and raise a family."

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5 cars head off into a sunset.

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Goodbye Five Car.

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It is going to be funny as hell if Nelson or Vitale sneak into 4th place.

Be careful what you wish for in between cracking jokes about the terminal illness of an institution in Boston radio or laughing at homeless people catching on fire.

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… from behind those dainty lace curtains handmade by abused nuns and handwashed in Magdalene laundries.
Do come out and give us more details on your latest paranoid fantasy. I’ve heard the old one about me setting fires to homeless people before but don’t recall the other one.
Please share. Your drama and insanity can be entertaining when it’s not inspiring pity and the prayers of the faithful.

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Up the ginseng there. Seems the middle term memory is going:

https://www.universalhub.com/comment/934433#comment-934433

Keep watching Andy Cohen and just remember what a horrible person you are.

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What a sensitive little creature you are!
I’ll put trigger warnings especially for you in front of all my posts from now on. Let me know if there is anything else from your voluminous files of perceived UHub slights and injuries I or anyone else needs to be aware of, dear boy.
Hope you recover soon.

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Get a room already.

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I think I’d rather kick the bucket. ;)

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https://www.universalhub.com/comment/934529#comment-934529

By John Costello on Mon, 06/05/2023 - 10:04am.
I did a lot of other things yesterday.

If you take all of Sunday afternoon to post a comment (owing to your way of thinking), perhaps you should consider having a live in aide to help, you know, with things.

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But if the trend of trash that has been getting elected continues, we could potentially look back in 10-20 years and consider him as one of the best of this century.

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Nice guy. Only bumped into a few times over the years.

I signed his nomination papers when he ran for Mayor. He was asking for signatures at Cedar Grove at 7 in the morning. That's a effort which showed he wanted to serve.

A few people I knew threw a fundraiser for him when he ran for Mayor.

He focused on services.

He wasn't some drama queen grandstanding on some issue in Kerplakistan rather than making sure they could legally drive here in Boston.

Isn't that what you want in a city councilor?

There is a lot of spite against one person who actually did their job.

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Menino couldn't touch me, but I was cautioned.
The heavy hand of Ill Duce, as the Firefighters' Union termed him.

Really those were years of NIMBY stagnation and Stop the Good Times from Rolling, but he made the right poses like unconstitutionally barring Chick-fil-A.

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One thing that's interesting is that Five Car raised a good deal of money this spring, $100k between March 1 and May 31. He's sitting on more than $200,000, so who knows what he'll do with that. (He told POLITICO he was running in April.)

Assuming the other three incumbents run, Murphy probably gets a bunch of his voters and winds up in first place. Last time around she got in by less than 300 votes over Halbert, so she's probably feeling pretty good right now. I wouldn't see any reason for Ruthzee or Mejia to worry either. But the fourth seat is wide open based on who pulls papers and gets on the ballot.

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do politics and you'll never have to work for an honest living

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Deadline to submit nomination papers and have signatures verified was last month

Incumbents:

Mejia
Murphy
Louijeune

Challengers:

Henry Santana
Clifton Braithwaite
Catherine Vitale
Shawn Nelson

https://www.dotnews.com/2023/large-update-incumbents-fill-war-chests-cha...

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I think I was thinking of Cambridge which doesn't have a primary and where no one knows who is running.

With just seven people on the ballot I guess there won't be a primary? And jeez you hope that Santana sops ups the votes but are there enough crazies that Vitale or Nelson could get close.

After some past years with more than a eight viable-ish candidates there are not many running this year. This is a problem because a crazy person will almost definitely finish 5th and if anything happens, hello, they're on the council (hello, Althea!). I'm not looking forward to Vitale being anywhere near City Hall. I guess everyone figured that Five Car was running again and it would be an incumbent election with little chance of getting on otherwise. Thank goodness Santana got in the race (he seems like a normie) or we'd really be up a creek.

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Oh, Nelson and Vitale will be near City Hall either way...whether they're on the Council though is yet to be seen.

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Possible that the two crazies will split the batshit constituency.

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If so, the Vitale/Nelson voters will bullet them.

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Five Cars and not one equipped with "emergency" lights to go through red lights illegally.

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And he didn't drive even one of them into a house
And they're all registered and insured

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I was wondering who gets Councilor Lara's parking spot in the city hall garage?

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That Boston City Councilor, Kendra Lara, sounds like a dangerous piece of work. With all the crashes and violations of the laws that she's pulled, she's got absolutely no business being on the road.

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Please tell us more about your knowledge of police department operations.

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Au revoir!

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Wonder if he has a cache of his trademark campaign nail files that he now needs to offload. Never voted for him, but was always amused by the unusual campaign merch swag.

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But as much as I disagreed with him, I will say our disagreements all revolved around issues with Boston. Was nice in a way to have a local politician who was mostly actually focused on local issues.

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