Menino makes critic of library trustees a library trustee

By adamg on Fri, 09/17/2010 - 7:33am

Mayor Menino has appointed state Rep. Byron Rushing to the Boston Public Library board of trustees.

As the Dorchester Reporter notes, earlier this year Rushing told library trustees he could not recall a group that has had a worse relationship with lawmakers than BPL trustees.

Free tagging:

Tom Menino

BPL

Byron Rushing

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Comments

Whew

By eeka on Fri, 09/17/2010 - 9:21am.

I thought for a minute you were going to say Don Saklad.

board of trustees. local man whereabouts. unanswered questions

By Michael on Fri, 09/17/2010 - 9:39am.

What happened to him, anyway? Haven't seen around him in a while...

So the solution to an inept, secretive board is to add blatant conflict of interest to the mix? True, it's efficient to have a rep who can request state funding from himself. Efficient in a Menino way.

This is what Menino does. Rather than excising corruption, he adds to it by co-opting critics.

library

By anon on Fri, 09/17/2010 - 1:08pm.

I have not heard about him in the news for ages like jesse jackson

No Conflict of Interest

By anon on Fri, 09/17/2010 - 5:03pm.

Hey spaceshot! The only basis on which to argue that Rushing has a conflict is that he has a library card.