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Election roundup: Trump flag waver and Rand Paul fanboi running for Ed Flynn's seat

By adamg on Thu, 12/19/2024 - 11:27am

Say hello to Brian Foley, who now that the national election is over and he no longer has to wave his Trump flag around Southie and getting into fights with teenagers, is supposedly running for the District 2 (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) city council seat now held by Ed Flynn.

Foley, now affiliated with the motley group of former Covid bucket bangers who used to stand outside the mayor's house screaming through bullhorns, is promising a final stand against the "unchecked illegal immigration" he claims is destroying Boston, to "Make Boston Great Again" and to, apparently, bring Rand Paul to Boston.

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Brian Foley
City Council
2025 elections


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Comments

By damaskin on Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:35pm.

https://brianforboston.com/

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By Kaz on Thu, 12/19/2024 - 1:40pm.

But donate away...quick, beat the rush. He's self-funded a whole $35 so far...and that's it.

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By Anonymous on Fri, 12/20/2024 - 2:22pm.

doing the same job Catherine Vitale does,
volunteer protestor on public support?

By Angry Dan on Thu, 12/19/2024 - 5:47pm.

That site is indistinguishable from satire. I especially enjoyed the evil, dragon-like, MBTA bus. Public transit is so scary, right?

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By merlinmurph on Fri, 12/20/2024 - 11:32am.

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By deselby on Fri, 12/20/2024 - 12:20am.

better a lively nut than a dull killjoy

By StillFromDorchester on Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:43pm.

You seem to be.

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By alkali on Thu, 12/19/2024 - 1:19pm.

For the last four hundred years of Boston's history all public works were built for free by friendly giants. Today, now that the friendly giants have gone away, we simply cannot afford to spend any actual money on anything, even though the city, the state, and the country are wealthier by far than they have ever been. Anyone who says otherwise is being unrealistic whereas I am being fiscally responsible in insisting that everything around us must degrade into dust.

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By John Costello on Thu, 12/19/2024 - 4:40pm.

For funding for football stadium that high schoolers cannot use.

She knows she will get annihilated statewide when she tries for Ed Markey's seat next go round.

This is just her way of acting out to prove she's the boss.

Mayor Ahab and her pursuit of the great White Stadium.

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By adamg on Thu, 12/19/2024 - 8:04pm.

The perils of trying to do several things at once.

I wrote a headline for this item, then pasted in a story about White Stadium, which has nothing to do with this topic and published it. Fixed, my apologies for the confusion.

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By PastaBatman on Thu, 12/19/2024 - 8:23pm.

Being from Chicago and what not. But Franklin park and vis a vis white stadium are for city residents and shouldn't be sold out from under our feet to a fucking sports team. This shouldn't be a zero sum game. Why do we have to give away the stadium to fund renovations?

Also, it's laughable that anyone on this planet thinks that people will take a shuttle bus from the suburbs to this stadium in the hood. It wasn't too long ago, that suburban pop warner teams refused to play here.

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By mg on Thu, 12/19/2024 - 9:24pm.

for people to believe you care about Boston/metro area? I'm originally from NYC, but have lived here almost constantly since 1975 (other than a few years away for grad school). Does that mean I don't care about the place I live, raised my family, have worked, and plan to remain when I retire? I know more about Boston and MA politics, important issues, etc. than I do about NY. If I disagree with you on a policy matter does that mean I don't care "Being from NYC and what not"?

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By Lee on Fri, 12/20/2024 - 7:10am.

It’s the only identity they have.
They don’t represent the rest of us who happened to have been born here and who know only too well from interacting with these sad sacks what a provincial backwater Boston would be without incomers.

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By Anonymous on Fri, 12/20/2024 - 2:33pm.

in Boston is about dismissing the opinions of citizens who moved here no matter how long ago. Erin Murphy, at the St Patrick's Day breakfast this year mentioned when her first ancestor moved to Boston in the 19th century. She was given the podium to talk about her candidacy for Suffolk Co MA SJC clerk by Sen Nick Collins, not to roast a politician or two, which is why everyone else was there. Collins is why Bostonians wont get residential real estate tax relief this year. 3 city councilors also voted against it. A year ago state govt passed a $1,000,000,000 package of tax relief and tax credits including tax relief for valuable estates.

By SwirlyGrrl on Fri, 12/20/2024 - 5:04pm.

I seem to remember you using "blow-in" in a name-calling attack on someone here for over 40 years.

Make up your mind.

By Don't Panic on Sun, 12/22/2024 - 11:51pm.

183 days to become a resident of Massachusetts.

In Boston it all boils down to the neighborhood you're from. Some neighborhoods your grandparents had to be born there. Others you have to own a home. Most it depends on if you or your kids went to school while living here. We're really provincial that way.

To me anyone who lives in Boston and cares about the city is a resident. No time limit.

By Don't Panic on Sun, 12/22/2024 - 11:53pm.

Makes Ed Flynn's deportment at city council meetings seem even handed and reasonable. Ed's a shoe-in if he runs against him.