All the Boston mayors go tweet, tweet, tweet.
On the same day the city IT department posted a photo proving Marty Walsh actually tweets, the mayor's office also announced the stakes of the obligatory bet with his counterpart in Denver over this Sunday's Patriots/Broncos game:
In the event that the Denver Broncos defeat the Patriots, Mayor Walsh will:
Wear Mayor Hancock’s Denver Broncos jersey during a session of the U.S. Conference of Mayors next week.
- Deliver Mayor Hancock 5 lbs. of Boston’s famous chocolate turtles from Phillips Candy House in Dorchester.
- In honor of Denver’s expanded library hours, make a donation to Denver Public Libraries of inscribed books by Boston’s hometown authors, including Dennis Lehane, James Carroll, Doris Kearns Goodwin, David McCullough, Jackie MacMullan, Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy, Joe Finder, Irene Smalls, Kevin O'Connor and Mike Casey, Jarrett Krosoczka, Casey Sherman, Brian McGrory, Paul Harding, Hank Phillippi Ryan and more.
When the Patriots when, however, the mayor of Denver will wear a Patriots jersey during that conference and send Walsh some "green chile," a Denver hoodie, a Denver cap and some skis.
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Bum deal
By ECG
Thu, 01/16/2014 - 5:13pm
Why would he (we) want any of that stuff? Green chile, ok, I guess but it doesn't really match up with chocolate turtles.
As someone who used to live in NM, CO, and TX
By Wiffleball
Thu, 01/16/2014 - 9:10pm
The green chile will probably be a 20- or 50-pound bag freshly frozen from a roaster. Totally worth it. The Denver clothing? Trash. Skis designed for CO power as opposed to New England ice? Useless.
should send a bicycle from geekhouse, royal h, and/or firefly
By anonaonsda
Thu, 01/16/2014 - 5:25pm
but books are a nice touch.
I like it, though....
By merlinmurph
Fri, 01/17/2014 - 8:38am
...I think the taxpayers may not like spending the bucks for a Firefly frame. ;-)
And thanks for the heads up on Royal H. Just when you think you know all the local framebuilders...
Capt. Obvious
By John-W
Thu, 01/16/2014 - 5:42pm
How bout some of that weed?
Don't worry
By anon
Thu, 01/16/2014 - 7:22pm
We're next.
I'm sayin!
By anon
Thu, 01/16/2014 - 7:23pm
I'm sayin!
"Green chile"
By anon
Fri, 01/17/2014 - 2:23am
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Chowder hasn't been in the mix for awhile
By Archivist
Thu, 01/16/2014 - 5:46pm
I think Boston put lobsters on the table for most of its recent bets, sand chowder, and in betting with Baltimore last year, focused on locally produced foods.
With Chicago in June, the bets involved theatre tickets and time on the other city's website
In October, knowing what was coming, Mayor Slay of St Louis declined the opportunity to bet, he has previously lost the 2002 Super Bowl and 2004 World Series.
Sand chowder? Lemon curry?
By Finn
Thu, 01/16/2014 - 9:26pm
Sand chowder? Lemon curry?
I kind of wish lemon curry
By Katie
Thu, 01/16/2014 - 11:02pm
I kind of wish lemon curry was real now :(
A few random observations
By Nancy
Thu, 01/16/2014 - 5:58pm
Can I donate my copy of "The Brothers Bulger" to Denver if they win?
Does Marty know that he can use twitter on that pc to his left? Is he too cool to tweet on anything but a smartphone?
From that angle, he looks like a dozen guys I grew up with in the Boston area and about 1,000 guys I saw at UMass.
Hello????
By Boston_res
Thu, 01/16/2014 - 6:03pm
Emails and tweets probably disappear from that PC...
Pc vs phone
By Craiggles
Thu, 01/16/2014 - 7:32pm
I'll bet that his phone keeps him logged into his own twitter, and that the office computer (if that's even HIS computer) doesn't. The computers at my work are all configured to not remember passwords or sessions (even if you tell them to "keep you logged in")
Well at least we now have a Mayor
By anon
Thu, 01/16/2014 - 7:24pm
Who knows how to use a PC and Smartphone.
Noone at City Council knows how to connect the Stenograph...
By theszak
Thu, 01/16/2014 - 9:10pm
Noone at Boston City Council knows how to connect the Stenograph machine http://stenograph.com to the web for hard of hearing folks tracking the proceedings of Public Meetings.
The motto of crooked government:
By They don't want to
Thu, 01/16/2014 - 10:42pm
"Never write if you can speak; never speak if you can nod; never nod if you can wink"
So the new Mayor's first official act
By roadman
Fri, 01/17/2014 - 9:53am
is a wager on a football game? If it was the Super Bowl, perhaps. But this is only the AFC championship.
Wait a minute? Skis? To the
By Hyde_Parker
Fri, 01/17/2014 - 9:57am
Wait a minute? Skis? To the mayor? Wouldn't that be a violation of the $25 gift rule for ethics purposes? Didn't those firefighters in Wellesley need to return those cruise vouchers because they were a violation of the $25 gift rule?
after a career at the State House and running a large union,
By aging cynic
Fri, 01/17/2014 - 12:20pm
I'm pretty sure that horse has left the barn.
no these
By Garret Sunz
Sat, 01/18/2014 - 12:43am
are the screw together types invented by Larry David, worth zero dollars.
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