Can you actually blame City Councilor Michael “Flats” Flaherty for chucking up the sponge?
Seriously, who in his or her proper thoughts would need to be on the Boston City Council today?
Consider the place Flats sits on the Council flooring throughout these appalling Wednesday conferences.
To his proper is Tania Fernandes Anderson, who just a few months again started screaming on the prime of her lungs:
“What the bleep does a black woman have to do on this bleeping Council to get some respect as a black woman?”
To his left (in additional methods than one) is Kendra Lara. Exactly one week in the past she was charged with smashing right into a home whereas driving an unregistered, uninsured, uninspected automobile with a revoked driver’s license without having her baby in a booster seat as required by regulation.
This is your trendy Boston City Council. If you have been using on a bus with the 12 present members of the physique, when you glanced round at your fellow passengers, you’d instantly get off on the subsequent cease – as three of the 13 councilors elected in 2021 have now determined to do.
Perhaps Flats ought to have made his choice just a few weeks earlier, thus permitting another sane candidates to file papers for one of many 4 at-large seats.
On the opposite hand, maybe he delayed his announcement as a approach of clearing the sphere for Bridget Nee-Walsh, one other Southie stalwart making her second run for the Council. (She completed seventh final time).
If she have been to win, possibly then Nee-Walsh may help Flats if he runs for one of many no-heavy-lifting countywide places of work that can or could also be open in 2024.
But no matter occurs subsequent, Flats made the proper name to flee. Who may stand being on the Council? These individuals only in the near past tried to chop the police finances. When the Fire Department referred to as out the “House of Horrors” in a public-housing mission in Southie and filed for a 51A order for the DCF to take the 4 children discovered within the again bed room, Lara accused the jakes of “transphobic rhetoric.”
Now, mockingly, a 51A has been filed to take Lara’s son into custody.
Back within the Nineteen Eighties when extra ladies began getting elected to the Council, Dapper O’Neil took to calling them “the Andrews Sisters.”
They included Maura Hennigan and later Rosaria “Sister Sunshine” Salerno and Diane Modica. None of them will ever be inducted into any political halls of fame. But in comparison with the group now on the Council, the Andrews Sisters appear to be Maggie Thatcher, Indira Gandhi and Golda Meir.
Let’s begin with the present belle of the ball – Kendra Lara.
According to her bio on the City of Boston web site, she is “a proud first-generation Black Dominican woman,” and the “first person of color” to characterize the JP-West Roxbury-Roslindale district.
Her c.v. features a stint as “Director of Radical Philanthropy” at Resist which is “a leading force for racial and economic justice.”
In case you had any doubts, Kendra is “anchored by a socialist vision.”
On the opposite aspect of Flats sits Tania Fernandes Anderson, the Roxbury district councilor. She describes herself on the web site as “the first African immigrant and Muslim-American elected” to the Council.
On Instagram, she expands on her {qualifications}, bragging that she can also be “the first formally (sic) undocumented African-born immigrant and first Muslim elected.”
Formally? Surely she meant to say “formerly.”
She formally, er previously employed each her sister and her son on her Council payroll – for $65,000 and $55,000 a 12 months, respectively. They labored in “constituent services,” as a result of the place else would they be, uh, working?
When Tania was busted and needed to do away with them, the unlawful immigrant emeritus claimed her open and gross violation of the state’s anti-nepotism legal guidelines was “an honest mistake.”
Of course it was!
Flats was the highest vote-getter within the 2021 at-large Council race. Finishing second was one Julia Mejia, one other Council “first” – simply ask her.
Julia is “the first Afro-Latina to sit on the Boston City Council.”
She doesn’t get to boast about as soon as being an unlawful, however she claims a runner-up standing of types – “raised by a single mother who was undocumented for most of her childhood.”
Needless to say, this has impressed her “lifelong pursuit of justice and equity.”
Sometimes, although, she has needed to interrupt her lifelong pursuit of justice and fairness to put up an announcement on YouTube, as she did final December:
“For those who are wondering if I am using drugs, answer is absolutely not.”
Now, in such a hotbed of woke-ism, these councilors who don’t fairly measure up, let’s say, within the Victimhood Sweepstakes attempt to do the perfect they’ll.
Like Gigi Coletta, from East Boston. No Muslims or illegals in her lineage, apparently, however she persists. Her minor at UMass-Boston was “Human Rights.” But wait, there’s extra:
“She loves to cook dishes that honor her Italian and Mexican heritage.”
Dapper’s Andrews Sisters had a male colleague by the title of Dave Scondras, one other “first” – the primary overtly homosexual Boston metropolis councilor. He was later convicted of enticement of a kid after making an attempt to lure a younger lad into the woods with guarantees of medicine, alcohol and lubricant.
The new Andrews Sisters on the Council likewise have a male comrade – Ricky Ricardo Arroyo. He’s a second-generation hack – the son of Felix “No Show” Arroyo.
Ricky Ricardo was not too long ago caught conniving with the then-US lawyer, Rachael Rollins, to border the district lawyer of Suffolk County.
Now, in a brand new scandal, Arroyo has been fined $3,000 by the State Ethics Commission — battle of curiosity. On the Council, it’s a resume enhancer.
Barney Frank used to say that in case you ran for the Boston City Council, solely two issues may occur, and each of them have been dangerous.
Number one, you could possibly lose.
Number two, you could possibly win.
Flats Flaherty, although, has lastly found out a technique to actually win. He’s quitting.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”