Deval Patrick: Boston 'ready' for minority mayor

Boston is primed to elect its first minority mayor, Gov. Deval Patrick said yesterday on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s 
“I Have a Dream” speech.

“People in public life are constantly underestimating the voters,” Patrick said. “The voters are ready. They’re ready to be trusted with fact. They’re ready to be trusted with vision, including big vision about the future. And they’re ready to engage, and I think we’re seeing that in the city, I think we’re seeing that in the commonwealth.”

Six of the 12 candidates vying
to replace Mayor Thomas M. 
Menino are minorities, including City Councilor Felix Arroyo; John Barros, a former school committee member; Charles Clemons, a former Boston police officer; former Menino aide and ex-state lawmaker Charlotte Golar Richie; City Councilor Charles Yancey; and David James Wyatt.

And the impact of a victory by one of the candidates has not been lost, even on Menino, who made waves earlier this month when he declared on Boston Herald Radio that if Golar Richie, the only female candidate in the race, were to win, it’d be “national news.”

Patrick said he’s been following the race heading to the Sept. 24 primary, and “without getting into how it’s going,” credited Menino, in part, for the diversity the field has built.

“I believe Boston is ready to shed its image of the racial tensions that surrounded busing and elect leadership that is representative of its diversity,” Barros said.

Via: Boston Herald

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ACORN’s old friend takes commanding lead in New York City mayoral race

NEW YORK – Long-time ACORN advocate Bill de Blasio has taken a commanding lead in the New York City mayor’s race, according to the latest poll.

De Blasio, perhaps the most far-left candidate in the race, has a long history with ACORN, the former radical community organizing group that collapsed under scandal in 2010, only to be reborn under various names in cities around the country.

As you may recall, ACORN was defunded several years ago by Congress after a series of videos produced by James O’Keefe showed ACORN employees offering advice to an actor presenting himself as a pimp. One of its affiliates – Project Vote – was caught paying people for the number of voter registrations they collected, which caused some of the canvassers to fabricate registrations.

But ACORN lives on. Its renamed New York branch, New York Communities for Change, has endorsed de Blasio’s candidacy. And why wouldn’t it? He’s been very good to the group.

When de Blasio was a member of the city council, he “sponsored or co-sponsored a total of $115,000 in taxpayer dollars for ACORN and an affiliate, New York Agency for Community Affairs,” according to a 2009 story in the Daily News.

He also hired ACORN’s campaign arm, Citizens Services, Inc. for “field staff,” “consulting,” and “canvassing,” according to the newspaper.

De Blasio has gained the endorsement of the ACORN-created Working Families Party, and subsequently hired the party’s for-profit arm, Data and Field Services, to work on his campaign. He personally was paid $33,000 as a “consultant” for a party affiliate.

In March, Bertha Lewis, the former executive director of ACORN, spoke at a “Women for de Blasio” event.

“I’ve known Bill for decades and we’ve fought on the front lines together. We’ve organized together,” Lewis said.

“[He’s] proud to say he’s liberal. [He’s] proud to say he is severely progressive and was proud to stand with me, to back me, to back ACORN, and said ‘We will march down the street together and I dare you, I dare you, to say something against my friend!’” Lewis shouted.

“We’re going to fight our way to victory,” she added.

With a de Blasio win, ACORN will have a key ally in the mayor’s mansion and an apologist in one of the most influential offices in America.

Via: EAG News

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Report: Anthony Weiner paid for phony supporters at campaign events

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Anthony Weiner is having such a hard time generating support for his limp campaign that he has resorted to paying a rent-a-crowd firm to provide "supporters" for his events, The Post has learned. 

Some of the gung-ho Weiner crowds, including at the Aug. 11 Dominican Day Parade in Manhattan, were really actors who were paid $15 an hour by the California firm Crowds on Demand, according to a source with direct knowledge of the deal. 

The source said surrogates for Weiner approached the Santa Monica-based company days after Indiana-native Sydney Leathers came forward to say that Weiner had continued his digital dalliances after resigning from Congress. 

The campaign asked the company to have actors seem "like either supporters or people who met him and became supporters as a result of that encounter," the source said. 

"The people would initially be skeptical and then they ask him various questions but would appear then to be convinced by his spiel," according to the source, who said the campaign used Crowds on Demand "several times." 

Via: Fox News Politics

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REPORT: WEINER WAS SEXTING WHILE PREPARING TO RUN FOR MAYOR

On Tuesday evening, Anthony Weiner, with his wife by his side, admitted to continuing to send lewd messages to women after he resigned from Congress. He assured the public however, that the behavior was "behind him now." According to Facebook messages from Weiner, publishedby RadarOnline, he was sexting with a woman in March of this year, while he was campaigning for Mayor. 

When exactly did the sexting get "behind him?" 

On March 16th, in an exchange with Weiner, a woman writes "Nice! Just what I'm looking for....I want to XXXX the future mayor of nyc!"

Weiner hadn't formally announced for Mayor at that time, but had conducted polling on the race and was reportedly considering making a run. On March 16th, the date of the message, FoxNews reported that Weiner was preparing for a mayoral race.  

RadarOnine has 23 pages of Facebook messages between Weiner and the woman. Some date back to 2010, indicating an on-line sexual relationship of at least three years.

Throughout his campaign for Mayor, Anthony Weiner has promised New Yorkers that he is a "very, very different man." He is in a way. He is much more lewd than we thought. 

Via: Breitbart

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Former L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa Angered by Questions About Still Receiving Perks

2012 DNC Chairman initially laughs at reporter: 'The beautiful thing is I don't have to answer you anymore'

Former Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa may have left office weeks ago, but he still receives its perks and bristled at a journalist asking why L.A. taxpayers should pay for them, CBS2 reports.

After Villaraigosa announced his first private sector job since leaving office last week, CBS investigative reporter David Goldstein confronted him about having six months of security “chauffeuring him around, with taxpayers footing the bill.”

Villaraigosa was not pleased to see Goldstein.

“The beautiful thing is, I don’t have to answer you anymore,” Villaraigosa said, chortling.

Goldstein also asked Villaraigosa, as he got in the passenger seat of an unmarked police vehicle, why he deserved a city car and city driver as an ex-mayor.

“Why don’t you ask Chief Beck about that?” he said before slamming the door:

In a statement, Chief Charlie Beck said, “We do not discuss the protection/security arrangements for our protectees.”

“Public figures often gather threats as a result of their public service to the city,” Cmdr. Andrew Smith added.

The duo wouldn’t say if there were any specific threats, but Villaraigosa is not the first former Los Angeles mayor to get special treatment.

Jim Hahn confirmed that he also received six months of security when he left office in 2005. Former Mayor Richard Riordan, however, said he didn’t.

Via: WFB

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DNC Chief Wasserman Schultz Flips Out On Police Officer After He Asks Her To (Gasp) Follow The Rules At Polling Station…

A group of sign-waving campaign ralliers comprised of both Democrat and Republican supporters outside an Aventura, Florida polling location witnessed Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz get involved in a heated altercation with an Aventura policeman after she apparently took issue with his request to not engage in campaign activities in the street which would hold up oncoming traffic.

She listened to the police officer’s respectful and reasonable request, but Wasserman Schultz continued to argue with the police officer, according to several people who witnessed the incident.

Wasserman Schultz was greeting voters and waiving her campaign signs on a street that leading into the polling site and was obstructing traffic by stopping cars before they could even enter the parking area.

The police officer respectfully asked Wasserman Schultz to move onto the sidewalk as everyone else was required to do, but the  Congresswoman was unhappy with not being able to campaign how she saw it fit.  Unnerved by the simple request from a police officer, Wasserman Schultz made a “well placed” phone call to some unknown individual in a position of authority.  Five minutes later, the Aventura City Mayor came to the scene and was confronted by Debbie Wasserman Schultz and proceeded to get an earful from her as well.  

Wasserman Schultz stayed about 20 minutes before she  left the scene with the six or so supporters she brought with her .  After the congresswoman left, one of the Democrat supporters who witnessed the whole incident confronted the Mayor and told him that what she did was “extremely inappropriate” for her to berate him in the manner she did.

This altercation is just a few days removed from an earlier incident in which the congresswoman took issue with a Democrat voter who refused to campaign and support her and instead supported her Republican congressional opponent Karen Harrington. 

Via: Shark Tank

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