Mayoral race
City Councillor Sam Yoon’s top aide in City Hall is moving over to the campaign. Mary Grissom, Yoon’s chief of staff, will be taking over as campaign manager, a campaign spokesman confirmed to the Reporter.
She is leaving City Hall at the end of the... Read more
Shame on the Lit Drop for missing this on the first go-around!
UPDATE: Flaherty camp says the typo was not included in the flyers that volunteers handed out over the weekend.
Mayoral hopeful Michael Flaherty's campaign is pressing for more debates. The campaign had 150 volunteers out this weekend, passing out flyers that hit incumbent Mayor Thomas Menino on debates, or rather the current lack thereof.
Menino has agreed to... Read more
Responding to mayoral candidate Sam Yoon's call for term limits, fellow candidate Michael Flaherty said that should be left up to Boston voters.
Voters should file an initiative petition to establish the term limits, he adds.
"...[W]hen it comes to making... Read more
The Boston Phoenix has reached back into its archives for this June 1979 profile of Mel King when he was running for mayor.
Some of the highlights:
Still later, as a fledgling member of the Massachusetts House, King attracted more attention for his... Read more
From the Dept. of Oops: In a release promoting a proposal on term limits for Boston mayors, the Yoon camp goofed on the number of popes and U.S. presidents since 1968.
Noting that there have been three mayors (Kevin White, Ray Flynn, and current incumbent... Read more
The symbolism is hardly subtle: On the same day that Mayor Thomas Menino hits a milestone – 5,846 days in office – surpassing the amount of days former Mayor Kevin White served, City Councillor At-Large and mayoral candidate Sam Yoon is pushing a term... Read more
Wondering where you can meet your favorite mayoral candidate? Agendas are provided by the Menino, Flaherty, Yoon and McCrea campaigns and laboriously pasted here by Lit Drop staff. Please note that plans can change on the campaign trail at a moment’s... Read more
The Jamaica Plain Gazette shows everybody how it's done: Their investigation has found that citizens advisory committees (CAC), which review real estate developments, are formed by the mayor's office and the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) with "no... Read more
The Lit Drop pointed to the Yoon camp this morning and its borrowing of mayoral candidate Michael Flaherty’s ad campaign. But it turns out Flaherty potentially has his own problem with the ad campaign: Apple and its copyright.
John Ruch of the Jamaica... Read more
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