If the persistent rumors about ambulance calls to Mayor Michelle Wu’s home are so “baseless,” then why has the City of Boston been stonewalling me for 14 months in my makes an attempt to acquire the very information that may put the mislead the scurrilous gossip as soon as and for all?
It’s not like I haven’t been affected person. I filed my first Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the town on Oct. 9, 2022.
Fourteen months in the past.
The secretary of state’s Public Records Division simply ordered the town to show over the paperwork, generally known as Computer Assisted Dispatch (CAD) information, that present all police, hearth and ambulance calls to her residence.
Those information do exist. I despatched the hackerama CAD paperwork for randomly chosen addresses within the metropolis, and guess what – all of them included ambulance calls. They’re very simple to get, except you ask for the mayor’s home.
First they refused to ship me the CAD information for the mayor’s handle. Last December, they despatched me some nugatory spreadsheets and principally claimed they didn’t know what I used to be asking for.
That’s once I despatched them the actual CAD information from locations the place members of the protected lessons don’t stay.
Finally, final September, 11 months after I first requested for the paperwork (beneath the regulation that they had 10 days to reply), they despatched me a model of CAD doc for the mayor’s handle in Roslindale.
With all of the related elements redacted, by means of being listed as “Default.”
Now they’re saying that the town “does not release ambulance or health records for any resident of Boston.”
But as soon as once more, the town hacks usually are not telling the reality. Here’s a narrative from the Boston Globe, dated March 26 of final yr, about these so-called “baseless” rumors relating to Wu:
“Records of January and February emergency calls show no ambulance was dispatched to her (Wu’s) home to collect her for medical treatment.”
So the information of emergency calls to 15-17 Augustus Ave. in Ward 18 are apparently public… however just for the Globe.
To reiterate, they’re not public for the Herald, or for anyone else. Just the Boston Globe.
Have I obtained that proper? Rules for thee however not for me.
I ponder if the Globe truly noticed the unexpurgated CAD information? Or did they only take the phrase of Mayor Wu? After all, the paper’s motto is, “Afflict the afflicted and comfort the comfortable?”
And who might presumably be extra comfy than the hacks at City Hall?
All I’m asking for is what they gave the Boston Globe – however not only for these two months. I would like all of the CAD information for the mayor’s home, courting again to 2021. And once I get ‘em, I’ll put every part on the market, for everybody to see simply how baseless and pathetic the rumors are.
I ask for no particular remedy. I merely ask to be handled like a “reporter” for the Boston Globe.
Some individuals have requested me, why did I drag my very own ft so lengthy? Why did I wait over a yr earlier than I appealed the town’s apparent, blatant stonewalling?
The purpose is, imagine it or not, Boston City Hall is not a serious beat, for me or anyone else. In my very own current private expertise, if I wish to make sure that I get the minimal variety of downloads for my podcasts, or subsequent to no clicks for my columns – I simply have to write down about metropolis politics.
For most Americans who work for a residing and pay taxes, something about politics within the metropolis of Boston has develop into a “feel-good story.”
It’s known as a feel-good story as a result of it makes them really feel good that they don’t stay within the metropolis anymore and thus don’t should cope with all of the madness, depravity and corruption.
I do know this first-hand. These final 14 months, each time City Hall gave me one other run-around, I felt good – that I offered my little condominium on Marlborough Street and was not paying (instantly anyway) for all of the glad horse bleep.
The flack for Michelle Wu is known as “Ricky” Ricardo Patron. He’s from Wisconsin, and now he’s the spokesman for the mayor, who’s from Illinois. He was born in 1988, and she or he was born in 1985.
Here’s his tackle the information that the Globe is entitled to, however not the Herald.
“This is another pathetic and baseless rumor from the conspiracy theory crew longing for 1970’s Boston.”
Is Ricky Ricardo speaking to me – 1970’s Boston? What do any of these comrades find out about 1970’s Boston?
What do the Hamas terrorists name Israelis? Colonial settlers, isn’t it?
Can these of us now slurred as “1970’s Boston” begin referring to the blow-ins operating City Hall as “colonial settlers?” The colonial settlers of the Mideast have been there loads longer than Patron, Wu et al. have been flopping right here in Boston as colonial settlers on the public trough.
If these drifters who so clearly despise us are in reality colonial settlers, then what’s the “1970’s Boston” inhabitants? Are we native Americans, or the Palestinians of New England?
Personally, I don’t have lots of nostalgia for 1970’s Boston. What I keep in mind from again then was Democrats – white Democrats – stalking me with weapons, to not point out C-4 explosives they obtained from different Democrats within the Boston workplace of the FBI.
On Wednesday, once I first tweeted out the letter from the Secretary of State ordering the town to show over the actual ambulance paperwork, a feminine good friend texted my spouse and requested her what was concerned on this dispute.
My spouse instructed her good friend what was actually happening, and her good friend texted again to her:
“But aren’t all liberal women basket cases?”
One means or one other, City Hall, the story goes to get out.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com”