Jackson to announce mayoral bid tomorrow

I think everyone will understand your point (and why it's relevant today), but with this as a specific example, there's no way the news came from anywhere but the campaign or "someone close to it".

How else would he have a crowd (of reporters, at least) at tomorrow's announcement?

What difference does it make who announces or when a candidacy is announced?

Failed a lot of us, in a lot of ways.

Not saying that your issue isn't important, it certainly is with the diverse makeup of our city. But this election is more important than I think a lot of people realize, and we need to really give each candidate a good look.

Do you live in his district? Why dont you gather your folks and meet with Daisy de la Rosa? Show her there is a demonstrated need for steno and stop trolling.

This is definitely the sort of high-minded commentary we need in our mayoral race discussions.

(Pro-tip: when you say of 'reverse racism' with a straight face, every person with a college degree stops listening to anything you have to say)

Yeah, when will whites get a chance? We have it so rough. Did you know that there have been 9 black people elected to the US Senate in the 200+ years of our history? That's almost double digits! Time for white people to get their time in the spotlight.

He just proposed an ordinance to exempt seniors and persons with disabilities from the requirement to shovel their sidewalks. If only there was a way for you to know this.

You are a fool

1) Biggest priority for any mayor in the budget is the schools. Menino did effectively zero in 20 years at the helm other than throw money at the system with few if any real reforms/progress generated by the city (most academic gains came from MCAS requirements, accountability had a huge impact). Walsh has hired Chang and I'm hearing some rumblings of change. The biggest (and probably best) so far is the move to a longer school day (for a mere $14 million which is a bargain in my opinion if implemented well). School budget proposals for next year should come out any day - we'll see what that brings. Sadly - we probably need fewer schools and some need to be closed - but it's an election year - so that's probably at least a year out. May get some other reforms though - perhaps on transportation reforms to save some money for other purposes.

2) Police - Hired Commissioner Evans (on a permanent basis) - a diminutive rock star in a long line of rock stars (Kudos to Menino here too - he had some excellent commissioners and did put Evans in on a temporary basis in the transition). We've seen the troubles in many other communities between the police and the citizens - Walsh has been able to keep that relationship here. We will need someone to step it up on the gun violence though and the problems in Eastie.

3) Fire - not much - but at least there seems to be a detente between the mayor and the fire department - it's a start and still better than Menino.

4) Other - Menino slashed just about every other department to keep funding up for the schools and public safety divisions - can't speak for other departments, but Walsh has re-prioritized the parks department and found them some much needed and deserved funding.

5) Development - Menino's main priority (almost only priority) was downtown luxury - it was lucrative for him and his cronies and meant he didn't have to take on the neighborhoods and lose political points. In my opinion, these policies to this day are one of the reason's Boston remains so outrageously expensive. Walsh has stepped up development of somewhat more affordable housing in other parts of Boston and held the developers' feet to the fire more than Menino on affordable housing payments.

Yes - the Olympics and Indycar were a disaster - but didn't have a big impact on the city or the budget in the end.- but Walsh is doing a lot of the little things pretty well for a first-termer. I didn't vote for him last time around - probably will this time. No knock on Tito - I'd probably rather go out to dinner with Tito than Marty because I've met him and he is an incredibly likable person. But we have enough instability in Washington - I don't need more of that in my backyard at the same time.

The best kind of racism.

He's running in Boston, not Brookline.

If you are not satisfied with Marty why would you give him a thumbs up with a vote? Even if you know he will win and you're happy about that because you really don't like the other options, you want the race to be close (especially in your own ward) so that he feels like he still has work to do to win you over and could be at risk in the next election.

If there is low turnout or he easily defeats the challengers that's interpreted as a green light to ignore actual Boston voters and just cater to those that will fulfill his needs (whatever those are -- between the Olympics, closing down Long Island shelter, that Indy car fiasco -- I can't seem to figure out what the hell he's doing - apparently it had been angling for a position with a Clinton administration - don't know what he's thinking now.)

I thank Tito for running but I'm not exactly breaking out the pom-poms and "si, se pedo" chants for him. Really hoping that there are some other challengers and that a good debate on actual issues gets going.....yeah, yeah....I know. dream on.

America is a pretty religious country, so to hear anyone say that they are going to pray about a decision is par for the course. He's basically thinking things over with God. I'm willing to bet that on the campaign trail he won't be saying he's been ordained by God to shepherd Boston, so perhaps you can cut him some slack.

There is a difference between faith and religion. Marty has Christianity coursing through his veins, but he probably isn't too religious. Tito might be religious, but my bet is that he won't be governing based on the doctrine of a particular church. I think you'd be safe voting for either one on this point.