Hello, everyone. Thanks for reading. I’m running to be the next Mayor of Boston - and I need your help.
Our Party – the Democratic Party – is experiencing a rebirth. We're finally winning red states, Barack Obama is our President, we could have our first Latino Supreme Court Justice, and in Massachusetts, an exciting progressive, Deval Patrick, became our Governor – in large part because of the netroots.
New models of political leadership are emerging in our country - and are sweeping our Party. But in my city, Boston, with over half a million people, we are still waiting to move our part of the country forward.
Boston is one of the most reliably Democratic cities in the country, but it is also home to one of the last machine-run, entrenched city governments left. The Mayor’s job has effectively become a lifetime appointment. The last time any sitting Boston mayor was successfully challenged was in 1949, after he had spent eight months in jail.
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