![]() ![]() ![]() Don’t miss out on Power Switch, your guide to the politics of energy transformation in America and around the world. Power Switch is a daily newsletter that unlocks the most important stories driving the energy sector and the political forces shaping critical decisions about your energy future, from production to storage, distribution to consumption. ![]() SUBSCRIBE TO POWER SWITCH: The energy landscape is profoundly transforming. Have a tip, story, suggestion, birthday, anniversary, new job, or any other nugget for the Playbook? Get in touch: Jake Auchincloss hosts a virtual press conference to unveil gun violence prevention legislation at 2 p.m. Wu attends a “Mass and Cass” briefing at 1 p.m. and gives remarks at the unveiling of new public artwork in Jamaica Plain at 4:30 p.m. Boston Acting Mayor Kim Janey participates in a bus-lane ribbon-cutting ceremony in Roxbury at 9:30 a.m. Charlie Baker makes a pediatric Covid-19 vaccine announcement at 10:30 a.m. For those of you asking (and there are a lot of you) I still haven’t really slept. Still, it’s an interesting footnote to a contest hailed as a big win for progressives on an otherwise lackluster night nationally, and locally as a culmination of years of progressive gains on the council. A few moderate voices on the council can’t do too much in this strong-mayor city, though they could be more of a factor now that voters approved a local ballot measure giving councilors more power in the budgeting process. Voters lined up behind progressive incumbents and newcomers for many of the council seats, including Tania Fernandes Anderson in District 7 and Boston Democratic Socialists of America-backed Kendra Hicks in District 6. The mixed-bag at-large results aren’t the biggest check on Wu’s progressive agenda. Incumbency can also be a big boost in a multi-way council contest overshadowed by a big-ticket mayor’s race. He didn’t rest on his laurels this fall, sending out mailers and putting out an ad on streaming services (yes, let’s acknowledge the speculation he wants the Suffolk District Attorney seat Rachael Rollins would vacate if she’s named U.S. He’s built up a lot of name ID and goodwill across the city. Flaherty’s been a city councilor on and off since 2000 and even ran for mayor - though he got drubbed by then-incumbent Mayor Tom Menino. That’s what operatives and activists across the political spectrum said when I asked them yesterday. Name recognition is the likely answer why. Murphy snagged the fourth at-large seat, making it onto the council on her second try.īut Flaherty finished first overall in part by topping the ticket in precincts Wu won in Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Charlestown and Allston, according to a MassINC map and the city’s unofficial results. Murphy, a daughter of Dorchester like former mayoral candidate City Councilor Annissa Essaibi George, ran up the score in the neighborhood’s whiter and more conservative Ward 16. Some of the at-large precinct results follow traditional Boston trends. ![]() For those keeping score, that’s Councilor Michael Flaherty and newcomer Erin Murphy on the moderate side, and Councilor Julia Mejia and newcomer Ruthzee Louijeune on the progressive side. Progressives and moderates split the at-large council seats 2-2, with one incumbent councilor and one newcomer apiece. MODERATE MARKER - Voters gave Michelle Wu a clear mandate for her progressive policies when they handed the city councilor a resounding 28-point win in the Boston mayor’s race.īut down the ballot, voters put an interesting asterisk on a mayoral race that’s offered plenty of insight into the city’s political shifts over the past decade-plus. ![]()
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