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A look at the three questions on the Boston ballot this year
By adamg on Mon, 11/01/2021 - 10:25pm
If you haven't already voted, here's a look at the three questions.
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I'm voting no down the line.
I'm voting no down the line.
Question 1:The City Council needs to work with the Mayor while the budget is being planned. The City Council is a part-time job to too many members. Giving this budget power to part-timers is ridiculous.
Question 2; East Boston already shares a a large part our public infrastructure. We need to spread this stuff around to other areas.
Question 3: Oh hell no! I vividly remember Louise Day-Hicks. Never again.
Will see if the rest of the
Will see if the rest of the 23% join you.
Thirteen councillors
For 684,000 people is too many?
Yes on all three for me.
Yes on all of them for me.
Yes on all of them for me.
If we are going to get rid of gas we need more electric infrastructure.
Louise Day-Hicks
Is the world at all different than those days? The voters still elect the mayor, who could just as easily appoint a person similar to her, or an entire school committee of them...
Any enlightened Uhuber who
Any enlightened Uhuber who care to share their opinion about the remaining Boston at-large councilors candidates? I only know the incumbents and I have been to lazy or busy to do thorough reading on the other ones. My wife and I will be voting at the end of the day and given the forecasted low turnout, we may represent nearly a third of the vote at our Dorchester precinct.
Candidates who care to make Boston less car-centric, are NOT endorsed by the BPPA and have their head together would be at the top of my list.
Don't know about the car issue
I haven't seen much of it coming up in the council race this year, but ...
JP Progressives endorsements.
Ayanna Pressley's endorsements.
Boston Globe endorsements (which explain why they made the endorsements they did).
Wee summaries at the end
https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2021/10/20/bostons-mayoral-election-e...
Is that the real wording on question #2?
I'd be tempted to vote Yes just to tweak the nose of whoever thought it was a good idea to write it that way.
(Assuming it's not just reverse psychology...)
You got that right
If the wording had an actual alternate proposal, instead of "Hey maybe it could go in the airport" I probably would have voted against this.
No, Yes, No
We have a "strong mayor" form of government, which means the Mayor gets to come up with the budget. S/he gets to set the priorities and that has worked well for the city for decades. If you make the council and mayor "partners", every councilor will start working on the pork that will get them reelected, without regard to the city as a whole. I'm sure the mayor and councilors have discussions before the budget comes out. The councilors can say, "Hey could we get funding for X? I don't think I can support a budget that doesn't fund that." They can negotiate from there. That system works fine.
Why do we all get a say about the East Boston power sub-station? I said, "Build it!"
We had an elected school committee. It wasn't a panacea. To fix the schools you'll need bold and, to many, unpopular thinking. An elected committee will always be wondering about getting re-elected and thus be less likely to take any position that might lose them votes.