Election roundup: Pressley boards the Wu train

US Rep. Ayanna Pressley contiguous endorsed Michelle Wu for mayor.

Pressley, who served with some Wu and Annissa Essaibi George connected the Boston City Council, said:

I’ve worked intimately with Michelle Wu for astir a decade. Michelle has a passionateness for work and a imaginativeness for our metropolis that is grounded successful her ain lived acquisition and content successful the transformative imaginable of policy. At this pivotal infinitesimal successful our city’s history, we request bold enactment - that’s wherefore I’m truthful arrogant to endorse Michelle’s candidacy for Mayor. I look guardant to continuing to enactment alongside her to tackle the entrenched challenges of racial, social, economic, healthcare, and biology injustice facing our communities.

Like Wu, Pressley is primitively from Chicago. And her endorsement comes the time aft Essaibi George played the Boston-native card saying yes, it matters that Wu was calved successful Chicago, not successful Boston.

City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo, who is simply a Wu backer, accused Essaibi George of "othering."

Dueling laborers endorsements: Laborers’ International Union of North America Local 223 is backing Essaibi George. But Laborers’ Local 22 is backing Wu.

Wu and Essaibi George volition hold their archetypal one-on-one statement connected Oct. 13 connected WBZ-TV.

The Dorchester Reporter interviews incumbent District 3 (Dorchester) Councilor Frank Baker and challenger Stephen McBride.