I'm on the other side of the river, so my read on the situation could be off, but I don't think either the scion of the Patriots or the councilor for Southie would pose much of a threat to Wu.. This isn't Raymond Flynn's Boston, where an economic populist / cultural conservative was a good fit. Nor does his son have his reputation for go…
I'm on the other side of the river, so my read on the situation could be off, but I don't think either the scion of the Patriots or the councilor for Southie would pose much of a threat to Wu.. This isn't Raymond Flynn's Boston, where an economic populist / cultural conservative was a good fit. Nor does his son have his reputation for going after monied interests. (The elder Flynn went after banks, utility companies and landlords, both as councilor and as mayor.) Both men read to me as the right of center disgruntledness that lost in a landslide in the 2021 race and don't have a constituency or a platform that reaches the broader city of Boston. (This is somewhat unfair to Essaibi George, who was more going for "pragmatic centrist", but that's who ended up voting for her.)
I've not yet relocated myself, but my read of things is the same. Wu manages to get her name out there and gets headlines of her doing stuff. I think one of the biggest potential weaknesses progressives have in blue areas is if they can be labelled as ineffectual because of their endless pursuit of ideology. Something she has avoided.
I don't see the pathway for Flynn. He's making the most noise about Wu's commercial real estate tax proposal... Regardless of if it is good policy, it's going to be very good for elections. Run of the mill voters are not going to revolt over a mayor fighting for taxes to go up for major businesses in an aim to keep taxes lower for homeowners.
Wu hasn't gotten her name attached to any major failures or headaches in the region, gets her name out for the passive positive stuff, and neither of her two most prominent opponents strike me as people having any serious pathway. Surprises happen but I'd expect her to win comfortably at this stage.
Wu is one of the more effective reform-progressive mayors in my opinion and agree that she doesn’t seem to have stepped on the types of land mines that often await mayors of all ideological stripes
I'm on the other side of the river, so my read on the situation could be off, but I don't think either the scion of the Patriots or the councilor for Southie would pose much of a threat to Wu.. This isn't Raymond Flynn's Boston, where an economic populist / cultural conservative was a good fit. Nor does his son have his reputation for going after monied interests. (The elder Flynn went after banks, utility companies and landlords, both as councilor and as mayor.) Both men read to me as the right of center disgruntledness that lost in a landslide in the 2021 race and don't have a constituency or a platform that reaches the broader city of Boston. (This is somewhat unfair to Essaibi George, who was more going for "pragmatic centrist", but that's who ended up voting for her.)
I've not yet relocated myself, but my read of things is the same. Wu manages to get her name out there and gets headlines of her doing stuff. I think one of the biggest potential weaknesses progressives have in blue areas is if they can be labelled as ineffectual because of their endless pursuit of ideology. Something she has avoided.
I don't see the pathway for Flynn. He's making the most noise about Wu's commercial real estate tax proposal... Regardless of if it is good policy, it's going to be very good for elections. Run of the mill voters are not going to revolt over a mayor fighting for taxes to go up for major businesses in an aim to keep taxes lower for homeowners.
Wu hasn't gotten her name attached to any major failures or headaches in the region, gets her name out for the passive positive stuff, and neither of her two most prominent opponents strike me as people having any serious pathway. Surprises happen but I'd expect her to win comfortably at this stage.
Wu is one of the more effective reform-progressive mayors in my opinion and agree that she doesn’t seem to have stepped on the types of land mines that often await mayors of all ideological stripes