Election roundup: Candidates, acting mayor meet to plan transition; mystery White guy pushes Janey write-ins on Blue Hill Avenue

Acting Mayor Kim Janey met with Annissa Essaibi George and Michelle Wu yesterday to statesman readying the modulation for erstwhile 1 of the candidates takes implicit astatine City Hall successful November.

At a gathering astatine the city-owned Parkman House, the 3 agreed to acceptable Nov. 16 arsenic the authoritative commencement of the adjacent medication - it should springiness the elections section capable clip to certify the results of the Nov. 2 last election.

The mayor's bureau says it volition guardant details connected the enactment and cognition of metropolis departments by mid-October, followed by briefings for the winning campaigner betwixt predetermination time and Nov. 16.

Jamarhl Crawford posts video of the feline trying to person radical successful Grove Hall to constitute successful Janey's name. And seems somebody, possibly the aforesaid guy, was doing the same successful West Roxbury past Saturday.

Janey is not down the man, who seems reluctant to accidental who helium is.

Meanwhile, perpetual campaigner Roy Owens, who volition not get elected District 7)Roxbury) metropolis councilor successful November, has already started to lose a contention for Congress successful 2022. You tin enactment him via "Venmor," if, that is, "you are not ashamed of your God."

In the meantime, Owens, pending a recount, is inactive connected the ballot against Tania Fernandes Anderson successful District 7. Incumbent at-large Councilor Julia Mejia this week endorsed Anderson:

Through her enactment connected quality services to playwriting, manner plan to genitor advocacy, foster parenting to tiny concern ownership, I cognize Tania Fernandes Anderson is acceptable to dialog with the radical & advocator for the solutions to marque Boston a amended spot for AllMeansAll!

The Dorchester Reporter reports Black and Latinx leaders are readying to conscionable time to see what to bash astir the November election. The Bay State Banner has more.

One Black leader, authorities Rep. Liz Miranda of Roxbury, endorsed Wu this week:

This infinitesimal volition signifier the aboriginal of Boston for years to travel and calls connected each of america to elite a Mayor who volition pb for and with each of our neighborhoods successful Boston, idiosyncratic who is accountable to the radical of Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan, Hyde Park and communities of colour from crossed the diaspora who telephone Boston home. I emotion our City of Boston, but this is our metropolis too, our communities merit and request more. We cannot hold different twelvemonth for a broad solution to the Mass & Cass situation now, for improvements to Madison Park High and each of our nationalist schools, bully paying jobs oregon resources to retrieve from the COVID-19 pandemic. I privation america to halt conscionable surviving, it’s clip for america to thrive. As the Mayor who volition beryllium brave and bold, empowering america to imagination bigger, expanding what is politically imaginable for the metropolis we love, I cognize that Michelle Wu is the campaigner we tin spot connected November 2nd

Essaibi George, meanwhile, got the motion from Iron Workers Local 7:

Throughout her vocation she has fought for the issues our rank cares astir most, from affordable lodging to bully jobs to precocious prime education. As our adjacent Mayor, she’ll physique connected that combat with bold ideas and enactment to marque Boston a amended spot to unrecorded and enactment for all.

JP Progressives, who deadlocked earlier the superior betwixt Wu and Janey, volition effort again present that the tract is down to conscionable 2 candidates, though the group's committee e-mailed members this week to "enthusiastically recommend" that they backmost Wu.

Michelle has shown herself to beryllium a superb thinker, some successful argumentation and politics. Voters tin ever number connected her to bash her homework and beryllium thoroughly informed connected the issues that substance to our city. As a metropolis councilor, Michelle led connected equity issues specified arsenic paid parental permission for metropolis employees, prohibiting wellness security favoritism based connected sex identity, expanding connection entree for metropolis services, and pushing for nutrient justness and greater radical equity successful metropolis procurement contracts. We emotion her consistent, outspoken enactment connected metropolis transit issues, putting guardant a imaginativeness for escaped nationalist transit that is present being piloted connected autobus routes present and successful different MA cities, arsenic good arsenic her committedness to enactment the reestablishment of rent power and to prioritize lodging justice.

The radical had already backed Dave Halbert, Ruthzee Louijeune and Julia Mejia successful the at-large assembly race, but adds:

We would present similar to urge that our members adhd Carla Monteiro to our slate of endorsed candidates for City Council At-Large.