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AP: Opponents of Boston 2024 have bad manners

By Anonymous on Sun, 05/31/2015 - 7:08pm

AP:

F-bombs, shouting: Uncivil discourse on Boston's Olympic bid

Corey Dinopoulos, a co-founder of the Boston 2024 organizing committee who got the bid rolling three years ago, calls the tone "kind of depressing" for a world-class city with a chance to showcase itself.

"The city needs to calm down," he said. "People are expecting a lot from the organization. We're trying to plan for the next 15 years and that doesn't happen overnight. I think everyone needs some manners classes."

But not everybody is buying the storyline that the problem with Boston 2024 community engagement effort is the manners of opponents. To wit, remember when Boston 2024 said no public money would be needed for the Olympics?

...and nowhere in the AP story does the author identify this guy, Martin F. Walsh of Laborers Local 223, or whether his presence is part of the Boston 2024 effort (Mayor Marty Walsh's Political Machine To Campaign For Boston Olympics):

But perhaps the most egregious part of the story, the part the AP doesn't address, is that many Bostonians don't think taxpayers should be required to spend one red cent on this boondoggle, and by the looks of it neither Boston 2024 nor Mayor Walsh seem to care about what the public wants.

Another unmentioned part of the story is how Boston 2024 big foots neighborhood land-use planning wherever it goes. Once again, the Mayor backs Boston 2024 and not the people in the neighborhood.

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Comments

By Nancy on Sun, 05/31/2015 - 9:19pm.

According to the Boston Magazine article and other reports, Mayor Walsh's cousin didn't just heckle a woman. He allegedly called her a ‘f—ing piece of s–t.’

Who needs lessons in manners?

By Anonymous on Sun, 05/31/2015 - 9:44pm.

Of equal interest to me is whether cousin Martin Walsh of Laborers Local 223 was working on behalf of Mayor Walsh's campaign apparatus that Mayor Walsh activated for Boston 2024.

The reason I mention the local is that the local is part of Mayor Walsh's campaign apparatus. I support labor and I oppose labor union leaders conducting themselves in this way. It's rude and it leaves the union and the mayor open to criticism.

As I said when it happened, it is in Mayor Walsh's best interest to ask cousin Marty to make a public apology. Rancor that divides the city costs both the Mayor and the city.

Finally, Mayor Walsh should get his hand out of our pockets on behalf of Boston 2024. He wasn't elected to green light a boondoggle for the 1% at the expense of the taxpayer.

By Chris Lynch on Mon, 06/01/2015 - 12:59am.

This story has always been about the whether claims being made by Boston 2024 have merit, and many of them have been debunked.

By Anonymous on Tue, 06/02/2015 - 10:07am.

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