Walsh tells out-of-state moneybag PACs to stop picking on his friend John

It's wrong for John Connolly to criticize Marty Walsh for the mailer because Walsh has no control over the 3rd party pac. In fact, it's illegal for Walsh to speak with them.

That said, Connolly's complaint comes in a context, a context where John Connolly went negative anonymously in his own campaign for city council, and never apologized explaining, "it isn't illegal." That my friends, it a monster size hypocrisy and more rhetoric, from him and his campaign, that intentionally deceives voters.

Marty took the high road, "the attacks on my opponent's family, are out of bounds. John is my friend and there is no place in this campaign for personal attacks like this."

Have a look for yourself.

It says John was "educated at elite prep schools." I know he went to Roxbury Latin School, I think he went from grade 8 to 12, and I'm pretty sure he didn't attend any other elite prep school.

I don't worry about the fact John Connolly had an advantage being able to attend Roxbury Latin. You can't blame him for having access. What is important is how he uses it.

There are only 50 students per grade at Roxbury Latin. Presently, tuition is $24,000. That's more than present day UMass tuition, fees, room and board: $23,198.

Wealth, well poverty, is the single most determinative factor in school achievement gap.

John's dad was state treasurer Secretary of the Commonwealth and he ran for US Senate twice and lost twice. His mom was Chief Justice of the Dedham District Court. My guess is that put John's family on the upper end of the salary range in Roslindale/West Roxbury.

John's work at RL helped get him into Harvard, and his work at Harvard helped get him into BC Law which gave him an education in law so he could realize his chosen career -- corporate lawyer. He chose this career after teaching two years in NY as a volunteer and one in Boston Renaissance Charter school. In a recent Globe article, he called the year at Renaissance a "personal failure." He had planned to become a principal but as a result of his experience in the classroom, he chose law. He's worked at three firms in a law career four times as long as his three years in teaching and 12 times as long as his year teaching in Boston.

He campaigns as the education mayor, which some voters find deceptive and misleading, especially when he introduces himself as "a former teacher who taught kids from every neighborhood in Boston."

Attending Roxbury Latin is not an example of privilege that should be held against a person but
where John Connolly's privilege is on full display is defending a negative anonymous attack mailer that he sent out to get elected to city council in Nov 2007, claiming it's not illegal, while criticizing Marty Walsh for something his campaign did not do and has no control over by law -- send out the above mailer. That's privilege, and that's how John Connolly operates, at least in those two fairly comparable situations.

Amazing how many of you in this thread attacking Connolly - or repeating the same tired claims - are indeed, posting anonymously!

In terms of the mailer a few years ago, how many of you are Steve Murphy fans? How about some disclosure on your part? It's a "non-event" in the sense that nobody cares about it beyond a few Murphy supporters and some political-watchers to the Southwest of Forest Hills station. Nobody cares about it here in Roxbury where I live, nor anywhere else in the city.

Mind you, Steve Murphy is widely "credited" with raising the signature-gathering requirement from 500 to 1500 for City Council At-large, aka "the Steve Murphy protection rule." (Disclosure on my part: I failed to make the ballot - victim to this rule. And I turned in 1848 sigs.) But don't paint poor Stephen as Mr. Democracy, somehow the victim of nefarious Connolly.