What gets me is this: the first city to do a thorough, blanket, knock-heads crackdown on the Occupiers is America's second most liberal major city (after San Francisco).
Granted, the mayor's trying like hell to turn parkland into penthouses, and he gives blatantly illegal preferential treatment to his buddies, but STILL.
Either Boston's reputation is ill-deserved (and I admit this may be the case), or one hell of a lot of voters have dropped the ball continuing to elect Mayor-for-Life Mumbles.
Boston is one of the most Democratic cities in the country. It is not the most liberal by any stretch.
For all that one party had ruled the city and the state rather effectively for at least my own lifetime, and probably longer, they have generally been good at running the joint - not always Constitutionally, mind, but usually so.
Boston and Massachusetts, for all of the warts, tell me that I much prefer Democratic single-party rule to the other side. But no, I am not blind to the warts; and this recent thing is definitely a big ol' wart. My view of Menino dropped about ten points.
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Date: 2011-10-11 09:24 pm (UTC)Granted, the mayor's trying like hell to turn parkland into penthouses, and he gives blatantly illegal preferential treatment to his buddies, but STILL.
Either Boston's reputation is ill-deserved (and I admit this may be the case), or one hell of a lot of voters have dropped the ball continuing to elect Mayor-for-Life Mumbles.
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Date: 2011-10-12 03:40 am (UTC)For all that one party had ruled the city and the state rather effectively for at least my own lifetime, and probably longer, they have generally been good at running the joint - not always Constitutionally, mind, but usually so.
Boston and Massachusetts, for all of the warts, tell me that I much prefer Democratic single-party rule to the other side. But no, I am not blind to the warts; and this recent thing is definitely a big ol' wart. My view of Menino dropped about ten points.