Who Wants To Be... MAYOR!

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I think the only other candidate for mayor possible for pro-development might be Sam Yoon. I believe Flaherty is against development too.
 
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I would vote for Sam Yoon - a young, vibrant outsider with the brains.
 
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Sam Yoon is not only vehemently anti-development, he's actually much worse - he is anti-capitalism.

Among his many ignorant proposals, he is actually in favor of bringing back rent control to Boston. Even though it killed most cities.

He is a dangerous, juvenile, wide-eyed activist type without any formal grounding in the history, reality and dangers of socialism.

He is the worst, most anti-development "candidate" out there.
 
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^ right on
 
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pelhamhall said:
Sam Yoon is not only vehemently anti-development, he's actually much worse - he is anti-capitalism.

Among his many ignorant proposals, he is actually in favor of bringing back rent control to Boston. Even though it killed most cities.

He is a dangerous, juvenile, wide-eyed activist type without any formal grounding in the history, reality and dangers of socialism.

He is the worst, most anti-development "candidate" out there.
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Since this thread it getting spectacularly off topic, then it should be noted that it was the car that killed most cities, not rent control.
 
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Yoon is a fundraiser whom only moonlights as a politician at the few meetings he bothers to show up for.

A combination of the automobile, cheap housing in the suburbs, and rent control drastically destroyed the quality of life in cities. Rent control is the reason many beautiful buildings weren't properly maintained and allowed to literally fall apart. Everything in the Fenway, around Symphony Hall, Westland Ave, parts of Back Bay, the entire South End, huge swaths of Roxbury, attest to this.

When most of the good tenants leave for the burbs, one can only get people whom trash the property, whom thanks to the rent control laws are nearly impossible to evict. The rent increases allowed by rent control never keep up to cover the cost of repairs without destroying the profit margin. Buildings get really run down, as there is no profitable way or incentive to keep them up. As fixing up the building isn't going to earn you higher rents. Eventually the space becomes uninhabitable, and that's when the arson for profit schemes start.

Many of the apartment buildings that converted to condos in the 80s were so run down that it would be unprofitable to repair and continue to rent them under rent control. Fixing up units into condos and selling them off was the best legal route for landlords to make money on buildings which otherwise would have become money pits.
 
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Mr. Flaherty's ethical problems with his pursuit of a police job for his wife are also discouraging. What is it these guys don't get when it comes to ethics? (Sorry. Rhetorical question. Answer: ethics.)

I'm not a big fan of alot of Shirley's causes, but you have to take your hat off to her: she crushed Flaherty and the City Council for what were pretty basic, inexcusable violations of the Open Meeting Law.
 
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Why doesn't one of us run for mayor? If I could get 3000 signatures, in the three-week window between April 28 and May 19, I'd consider it.
 
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Id vote for someone that posts on this board.

Except Ned
 
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I'm almost a year out of college and now have about 2 months experience at an entry-level position at a major bank. That's a legit resume for Mayor, right?

PS I also know nothing about politics or how the political machine works.
 
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@disturbanist: That's a building I'd never seen before. I actually really like it. I like having the terracotta inside the building rather than bordering it.

tmac9wr said:
PS I also know nothing about politics or how the political machine works.
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You're not that far behind most politicians then.
 
Congratulations to the moderator who started this thread on making everyone who posted earlier look like a fool. I didn't realize that was part of the job description.
 
From talk all over the board, doesn't sound like there is anyone primed to be next in line. Certainly no consensus for anyone in the forefront anyway.

That could be a good thing.

Somebody arriving out of nowhere may have a chance. Short time to file intent, though, it seems.

Or am I clueless?
(That'll leave an opening for many of you. Go on. Take it. I dare ya. :))

As far as ethical problems, who among us wouldn't have one, or two, or ummmm, other issues from their pasts that would raise an eyebrow or two. Ethics is such an individual, malleable, and intangible thing from person to person. Depends on what you want out of life and how you need to achieve that. Some of the things we all revere were likely attained by what a majority may consider ethically corrupt, when analyzing the means to the ends, eh? Ahhhh, the conundrum....
 
Eh w/e. Whoever wins, the city loses. Welcome to another few years of small growth.
 
You have an electorate where the following is considered an important issue:

Mayor candidate Kevin McCrea showed up at a city meeting last week and ... parked his commercial vehicle in a ... commercial spot. But, he wasn't there for work, he was there as a candidate.

Ergo, he shouldn't be elected.

My question to you, in such a world, why would anyone run, then?
 
Who wants to be mayor? Sam Yoon wants to be mayor.

Yoon announces candidacy for mayor



By John C. Drake, Globe Staff

City Councilor Sam Yoon is running for mayor of Boston.

Yoon, a two-term at-large city councilor from Dorchester, called Mayor Thomas M. Menino and City Councilor Michael Flaherty, who also is running, to tell them of his plans this afternoon.

"This weekend, my wife, Tina, and I spent some time talking about what a mayoral race would mean for our family," Yoon said in a telephone interview with the Globe today. "We reached a decision. We prayed about it, and I am going to be entering the race for mayor."

Yoon, who was the city's first Asian-American councilor and would be Boston's first non-white chief executive, said he would begin a formal roll-out of his campaign in the next few weeks.

In the interview, Yoon declined to discuss any details about his campaign plans, saying he would save it for his formal announcement.

"The campaign will be about the city?s future, not about its past, and that?s the rubric that I?m going to be working with."

He would be seeking to unseat a four-term incumbent in Menino who has swatted away challengers from City Council in the last two election cycles.
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Before running for Mayor Yoon should probably bother to show up for a few City Council meetings and maybe actually spend a few weeks living at his Dorchester address. We are talking about a guy who didn't even realized Brighton was part of Boston!

Anyone running against Mumbles must realize that their character, no matter how clean or shady it is, will be more than assassinated, it will be placed before a firing squad.
 
I want Menino gone as bad as anybody but the two canidates seem worse than him! Lurker I'm going to take you at your word and believe you, so I wouldn't vote for Yoon and Flaherty doesnt seem to be interested in the city's best interests. Who is out there, who wishes to run or not, that would be best for the city?
 
At least you won't have to worry about Yoon being mayor for life. After only four years on the city council he has learned everything and is now ready to move on. This is the same guy who**immediately after being elected said the city should be buying condos for the poor.

Menino is looking better every day, wonder if Yoon & Flaherty on in on it.

We reached a decision. We prayed about it,We prayed about it
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no no not this again

On a different topic have you noticed someone is already running for Ted Kenedy's Senate seat. Why else would Joe Kennedy be running all those ads explaining his relationship with Chavez. And he doesn't have to pay for these ads.
 
In all fairness, Joe runs those adds every year.

But yeah, McCrea, Yoon, and Flaherty all look like Menino Lite, aka same old stuff but a few years younger. I'd love to be proven wrong, but I'm not seeing anything to make me think otherwise. Furthermore, Flaherty's campaign right now is downright laughable. We're supposed to believe transparent government will come from the guy who's the number one defendant in the case the City Council lost over open meeting law violations?
 
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