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Report: Flynn won't run for mayor

By adamg on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 9:28am

The Herald reports Councilor Ed Flynn has concluded he can't raise enough money to take on incumbent Michelle Wu, so will instead run for re-election this year.

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Ed Flynn
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mayor
2025 elections


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Comments

By deselby on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 9:48am.

Registrar of Deeds whenever Murph decides to retire.

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By 02132 on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 11:49am.

She lost the election.

By anon on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 12:40pm.

another former Boston City Councilor, who was swept into office by the resignation of another councilor, after placing fifth in the election. Despite having stellar hack credentials, Murph has run the Registry quite well, and if he stays to age 90, he will have the support of the professionals who use the Registry. Murph's performance is a stark contrast to the Arroyo crime family's destruction of the Probate Registry upstairs. The long term employees of those government/court administrative offices typically have real mastery of their subject matter, and things work best when their knowledge and opinions are consulted and valued.

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By eddie van halen on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 10:21am.

Disappointing

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By SwirlyGrrl on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 2:44pm.

Would have been great fun to see Wu hand him his ass.

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By eddie van halen on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 4:26pm.

Whatever pleases Boston's adult children. But something tells me most of you don't even live within the city boundaries.

By CopleyScott17 on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 10:43am.

...big money has decided Mayor Wu is unbeatable or he is unelectable. Unless they're holding out for Althea.

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By dan r on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 11:03am.

Please

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By Anon on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 11:06am.

Flynn can’t attract enough donors even as a political nepobaby because “let’s go back to the 50s” isn’t resonating with a lot of Boston.

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By anon on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 11:32am.

“Go back to the 50s” ?

And what does that even mean

By Section77 on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 11:39am.

He can pen him-self in as councillor at large for the next ten years.

By SwirlyGrrl on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 2:46pm.

The provincial olds still think they own the city but are an extremely vocal minority. They mistake the Greek Chorus noises made by their friends who moved to Wilmington or Marshfield long ago with having actual political relevance.

They can't even do math well enough to understand their relegation to entertainment.

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By John Costello on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 4:15pm.

Like those people who think they live in Boston?

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By MyManMyMelo on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 12:37pm.

Its 2025 and nobody gives a damn about “a Flynn”

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By CopleyScott17 on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 12:58pm.

Which is pretty remarkable progress.

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By Frelmont on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 11:42am.

Of course there’s no money for Flynn. The Democratic Party has an identity crisis. We Democrats need to get our house in order. We need to get back to the basics of leveling the playing field by fully supporting unions and end the self-denying pandering to far-left socialist third parties.

Big money is happy to give to the Democratic Party so that they may break it. The Party is divided and conquered. There’s a continuum of views in the Democratic Party from left to right, but it is a proven folly that we can gain electoral margins by straining the seams of our tent by harboring and co-opting Social Democrats and other Socialists where the majority of Democrats suppress the motivated self-interest - chiefly economic interests, but also the existential interests eg.: good stewardship of growth - and herein lies the impasse: are we Democrats, or Socialists (always, inexorably, proto-communists?)

The scales have fallen, the spell is broken and America has spoken, let’s get our house back in order so we may hold on to the wealth we work so hard to generate and let the Socialist-Progressives take care of their own Party.

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By SwirlyGrrl on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 2:51pm.

AI comment detected.

By Frelmont on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 5:44pm.

“I am not an animal! I am a human being! I am a man!” -Treves, or De Vore, or Bergren

I am too unhip to understand if calling people “AI” is a slur, an ad hominem, or jocularity. If you prick me…I bleed.

Great! Now I need to look up “bedbug” in this context.

By necturus on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 3:26pm.

There is no left in this country, and that's part of the problem. People put labels like "socialist" on CULTURAL ideas they don't like, but real socialism is the idea that the interests of the community should take precedence over the interests of rich individuals or private corporations.

And that's exactly what Democrats should stand for. They can't though, because they depend on rich people's money to win elections.

As I said elsewhere, politics in this country are profoundly corrupt, perhaps irredeemably so.

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By eddie van halen on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 4:30pm.

like Biden, and the millionaire "socialists" who live in Boston, require corporations and capitalism to maintain their lifestyles.

By Pete X on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 5:57pm.

Corporations and capitalism require "socialists" in government to keep the market fair and to keep the country educated and safe enough to provide a fertile ground for "capitalism".

Otherwise you get the criminal autocracy we're headed for, where a few billionaires like Elon Musk buy Republican Pols, who wreck our education, health and social support system and lead the country down the road to economic ruin and violent division.

By BostonDog on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 11:49am.

Wu is generally well liked and the sitting mayor isn't going to be unseated without some major scandal that is squarely her fault. (White stadium isn't a scandal.)

She's moderated her positions so she's neither too liberal nor too conservative for all but the people on the edges of the political spectrum. These groups are far from the majority of voters.

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By Frelmont on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 5:49pm.

Semi-liked.

By Kathode on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 6:09pm.

from actual voters registered in Boston: https://commonwealthbeacon.org/by-the-numbers/wu-gets-high-marks-from-vo...

By necturus on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 3:20pm.

...it shouldn't be money that decides who the mayor of Boston will be.

Our politics in this country are profoundly corrupt, perhaps irredeemably so.

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By BostonDog on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 5:52pm.

I agree with the sentiment but in this case Flynn is mostly admitting that if he couldn't even line up a few donors, he was just going to embarrass himself to continue further.

Some politicians can bank on grassroots support and don't need much cash to stand a chance. But Flynn had neither.

By Friartuck on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 6:12pm.

And I'm not religious

By Darryll J Fernald on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 6:32pm.

No mention of bike lanes so far!?