Photo via Ricardo Arroyo.
They've already screamed their lungs out at the young children of the mayor, so the anti-vax brigade decided to mix it up this morning, by going to City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo's mother's house in Hyde Park and screaming at her even though Arroyo himself no longer lives there - and was not there this morning.
Arroyo supports Mayor Wu's proposal to limit protests outside a particular person's house, but his mother, Elsa, 70, is a retired school teacher who holds absolutely no government position whatsoever related to Covid-19 regulations.
Arroyo, who chairs the committee studying the proposal, spurred by more than two months of early morning bucket drumming and racist chanting outside Wu's Roslindale house, and who is also running for Suffolk County DA, tweeted today
She told them it wasn't my home but they ignored her & kept on for hours. City Hall is open and they can protest there. It's clear the goal isn't protest but targeted harassment and its wrong.
Wu tweeted:
Cruel & disgusting. Leave our moms, families & neighbors out of it.
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what is there to spin or be biased about?
By berkleealum
Tue, 03/22/2022 - 9:32am
spin and bias don’t mean to “say things i don’t agree with”
people showed up at the wrong house to protest about policies that aren’t even in place anymore. when they were told they were at the wrong house, they stayed anyway. what’s the spin? where’s the bias?
Obviously
By brianjdamico
Tue, 03/22/2022 - 11:26am
Adam is deliberately not reporting on all of the many other groups that are protesting at the residences of the mothers of elected officials. /s
As someone who had to move frequently
By fungwah
Tue, 03/22/2022 - 2:50pm
(mostly due to the inability to find consistent and reliable cheap housing in Boston)
I used my parents address for official stuff for years, since its really helpful to have an address that you know you'll be able to get mail at months or years later. Given that he's apparently using a PO Box now, I don't think listing his parents address for mail means that he's "lying" about his address.
In fairness
By SatansFist
Tue, 03/22/2022 - 6:03am
Having seen Arroyo in council hearings, I too would assume that he is incapable of living on his own.
After all of that privilege too (joke)
By Bostonperson
Tue, 03/22/2022 - 1:59pm
Voting for the sons of previous politicians is borderline nepotism, whether it is the governor of New Hampshire or New York. It often does not end well. See Felix G. Arroyo. See Andrew Cuomo. See George W. Bush. These are actually the last people you want to vote for. The term is overused but they are grifters working the system because they can.
Listing his mom's house as
By Notfromboston
Tue, 03/22/2022 - 3:57pm
Listing his mom's house as his address is suspect.
Anyone have a fog machine
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 03/22/2022 - 4:54pm
And time to troll this walking contagion colony?
I think it would be fun to fog them out with simple water mist and have them claim all sorts of magical things about the nature of the fumigant.
Be interesting to see the Supreme Court weigh in
By Dan Farnkoff
Wed, 03/23/2022 - 6:14am
I for one am not the type to call the police on everything I find annoying (loud parties, aggressive solicitors, etc) , because I like living in a free society with wide protections for speech, diversity of opinion and lifestyles, and dissent. But I know this isn't a popular opinion anymore. Now people only support speech they personally agree with, the louder the better, while wishing to curtail and shut down speech they hate. It's some kind of weird generational thing or something.
Gonna guess...
By lbb
Wed, 03/23/2022 - 10:06am
...that you live in a nice quiet suburb and not next to an Allston party house.
Let me know if this is hard to read
By Kaz
Wed, 03/23/2022 - 1:47pm
It's probably small print from as high of a horse as you're riding.
A "free society" with "wide protections for speech" doesn't mean I get to put my manifesto on boulders and lob them from a bridge over a highway at the passing cars ("What? Don't they like my free speech?").
Then again, I'm not interested in seeing a ban of "residential protesting" in a city with EXTREMELY mixed zoning. BUT there *are* times and methods that are restricted already. My bet is they're violating 2-3 of them every time they show up at someone's mother's house and start yelling nonsensical things.
We've also reached a nadir in our "free speech" experiment. Between giving everyone a megaphone and then having zero chance at negating popular lies and making money equal to free speech and people being so inundated with "free speech" from false testimony, false experts, and disruptive instigators, we've created a society where it seems like the only way to get the truth out is to shutdown the lie machines before they can get started. So, yeah, curtailing and shutting down certain speech becomes seemingly the only way to stop it from being detrimental to us all. If you've got a better way, well, use your free speech...but "the truth will set us free" has been proven wrong by the past 10-20 years or so and it's only getting worse.
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