Now that he has a North End pied a terre, Josh Kraft is sounding more and more like he'll run for mayor against Michelle Wu next year, CommonWealth Beacon reports. Oh, not publicly yet, but CommonWealth Beacon reports Kraft started dishing on the campaign he'll launch this fall to a friend at a Back Bay coffeehouse - where somebody else sitting nearby took it all in and then re-dished to the site.
Just a year ago, the perpetual candidate said she was hanging up her nominating petitions and retiring from running every year. But Garrison tells CommonWealth Beacon (scroll down a bit) the only reason she's not running for anything this year is because she's focusing on running for mayor of Boston next year.
With a bit of help from her family, City Councilor Michelle Wu officially become Mayor Wu shortly after 12:30 p.m., in a ceremony at the front of the city-council chambers in Boston City Hall.
City Councilor Michelle Wu today won even West Roxbury in a successful race for mayor and will be inaugurated as mayor on Nov. 16. Read more.
Angela Menino, widow of Boston's longest serving mayor, announced today she is backing Michelle Wu: Read more.
The Satanic Temple of Salem, whose legal team now includes a hardball lawyer with a penchant for representing right-wing provocateurs, is demanding that Michelle Wu spend a good part of Election Day in Salem, answering questions about how the City Council chooses clergy members to lead the council in invocations at its regular Wednesday meetings. Read more.
Annissa Essaibi George tonight told Quincy it can suck it - if she's elected mayor, she's going to re-open Long Island and she's going to get the Long Island Bridge re-built pronto. Read more.
People in Roslindale and Jamaica Plain report getting post cards from out-of-staters letting them know that whether or not they vote is a matter of public record and, of course, implying that somebody is keeping track. Nothing creepy at all about that, even if it is true one's record of going to the polls (or sending in a ballot) is public. Read more.
As the fallout over her most recent flier (scroll down, past the racist Easter-egg item), District 6 council candidate Mary Tamer today apologized - not long before she was scheduled for a meet-and-greet in Jamaica Plain, where the reaction has been, oh, a tad more negative than in West Roxbury. Read more.
For the past couple of weeks, somebody's been going around Roslindale tossing plastic Easter eggs into people's yards that, when opened, have the above piece of paper in them. Calling the candidate a "communist" would be kind of laughable for anybody who actually knows what "communism" means, but aside from that, it's become a code-word for "Asian-American" since the start of the pandemic. Read more.
Or you want to see the half you missed when WBZ decided "Jeopardy" was more important, C-Span has put up a recording of the entire debate.
The two candidates debate at WBZ.
WBZ has the summary of the debate its Jon Keller moderated. More from NBC Boston. Read more.
The big one is Wednesday, when Annissa Essaibi George and Michelle Wu face off in a debate on WBZ at 7 p.m. Read more.
The New York Times has a long piece today about the way Annissa Essaibi George has ramped up her Boston accent, in her uniquely Anissa Essaibi George way (in which she admits to doing so then says it doesn't matter). The story quotes her, a HiPahk supporter of Michelle Wu, an accent coach and some guy who says he only started dropping his Rs harder when his mother told him to pronounce them if he wanted to get ahead in life. Read more.
Ed Markey today became the second senator to endorse Michelle Wu, citing her environmental activism: Read more.
Michelle Wu this morning got the nod from East Boston state Rep. Adrian Madaro.
Annissa Essaibi George, meanwhile, will be endorsed this afternoon by the Painters and Allied Trades DC 35, a few days after Insulators Local 6 announced they were backing her. Read more.
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