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Andrea Cabral for mayor?
By adamg on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 6:53pm
The Globe (well, technically, a University of New Hampshire survey group hired by the Globe) is surveying Boston residents to try to discern who might put up a good fight against Tom Menino next year.
The list of potential challengers, as seen by Globe survey takers: City Councilor at Large Michael Flaherty, West Roxbury/JP City Councilor John Tobin, Suffolk County Sheriff Andrea Cabral, Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley, successful businessman and unsuccessful candidate Chris Gabrieli and, of course, 1-800 Joe 4 Oil Kennedy, who, by law, has to be included in every single poll taken in Suffolk County.
Among the basic questions are how satisfied residents are with everything from education and crime fighting to street cleanliness and the state of public transportation and taxi service in their neighborhoods (taxi service as a big issue next year?).
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Andrea Cabral
Andrea Cabral has done a great job cleaning up and making
changes to the Suffolk County Sheriff's office.
She is young, very bright, great personality, and would make a most righteous successor to Tommy when and if he steps down.
I also think John Tobin and Mike Flaherty are well qualified and strong potential contenders.
Just my two pennies.
No she hasn't
Ned,
You must be forgetting her interference with federal civil rights investigations at the jail. jury verdict article here. That incident alone disqualifies her, as far as I'm concerned. We don't need a mayor whose first response to corruption is to cover it up and blame the cover-up on subordinates.
CP
Credit where credit is due
The South End News ran a column two weeks' ago where someone floated her name.
I think it's fantasy. She's not loved. Or, well-known.
no way
she is branded corrupt.its to bad ralph martin wont jump in.looks like 4 more years of mumbles.
Public documents. A mayoral campaign advocating open government.
Where are there any potential candidates that could take a new approach to the office of mayor? The organizational culture of city hall is intimidating to the people of Boston. Open government, access to public information about our municipal government for all interested, concerned and affected by city government -- open government should be the watchword of campaigns for the office of mayor. For example, candidates should advocate for a mayoral directive and a city council order for the more routine transmittal of city public documents to the city website at http://cityofboston.gov and to the government documents division http://bpl.org/research/govdocs/local.htm of our Boston Public Library. The city council library should be made open to the public in daily practice. City Messenger Ron Cobb should put on the city council website the council's public documents such as city departments' annual reports as well as the documents indicated at http://www.cityofboston.gov/citycouncil/citycounci...
The Municipal Register, the Organization of City Government publication and
the Boston Streets publication should all be on the city council website rather than the practice of not having any printed copies available for enquiries. The organizational culture at city hall is discouraging and defects use of the council reference library
> "The City Council maintains a reference library which is
> open to city employees, students and the general public."
http://www.cityofboston.gov/citycouncil/citycounci...