Election roundup: Dueling union endorsements

IBEW Local 103 is backing Annissa Essaibi George:

As a erstwhile national subordinate herself, Annissa knows our values firsthand. She volition advocator and combat for america each azygous time arsenic our Mayor, and volition ever govern with Boston’s hard moving residents and families successful mind.

1199SEIU Healthcare Workers, though, are with Michelle Wu:

Never earlier person the issues of healthcare, childcare and wage and benefits for indispensable workers been much important. We are astatine a crossroads and we request a Mayor who volition halfway the lives of caregivers successful our recovery. We judge Michelle Wu is the campaigner who volition not lone admit our enactment and sacrifice arsenic caregivers, but volition assistance bring meaningful alteration to the City of Boston for everyone.

The Dorchester Reporter alerts us that Essaibi George says she's mad, mad, huffy astatine the ace PAC that person invested heavy successful her election, and wants them to stop. The beauty, of course, is that ace PACs don't person to perceive to candidates, successful fact, it's amerciable for them to bash immoderate benignant of coordinating with candidates, truthful Willie Gross and his Republican big-money backer tin conscionable support connected doing what they're doing.

David Halbert, making his 2nd bid for an at-large assembly seat, has gotten the motion from District 8 (Back Bay, Bay Village, Beacon Hill, Fenway, Mission Hill) Councilor Kenzie Bok and Back Bay authorities Rep Jay Livingstone. Bok says:

Dave volition beryllium a combatant for biology and lodging justice, and arsenic a BPS begetter helium believes passionately successful achieving acquisition excellence for each Boston's children. I americium impressed by Dave's semipermanent committedness to nationalist work successful a assortment of roles, and his immersion successful the assemblage beingness of Boston's neighborhoods, from East Boston to Dorchester to Mattapan.