Boston Mayor Michelle Wu to Run Unopposed After Challenger’s Recount Bid Falls Short
“The last time a mayor ran unopposed in Boston was Mayor Thomas Menino in 1997.”
Boston is so beyond help. Wu has been a terrible mayor and she is going to be rewarded with a second term.
The Associated Press reports:
Boston Mayor Wu will run unopposed in her reelection bid after challenger’s recount bid falls short
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu will run unopposed for in her reelection bid after a challenger didn’t garner enough votes to advance to the general election, the city’s election department announced Monday.
Wu, the city’s first Asian and female leader and a frequent target of the Trump administration, is seeking a second four-year term. She was expected to face Josh Kraft, a nonprofit leader and son of Patriots owner Robert Kraft, but he dropped out after losing badly to her in the preliminary election earlier this month.
Since the top two vote-getters advance, attention turned to third-place finisher Domingos DaRosa. But after a recount of several wards by the city’s election board was completed Monday, DaRosa, a community activist who was born in the Cape Verde Islands, did not garner the 3,000 votes needed to qualify to be on the ballot in November.
The last time a mayor ran unopposed in Boston was Mayor Thomas Menino in 1997.
Wu thanked everyone who voted for her and said in a statement that her focus in the coming weeks would be getting people to come out to vote for her and City Council candidates.
“I’m humbled by the overwhelming support across every neighborhood and every ward to keep going in our work to make Boston a home for everyone,” said Wu, who spent much of the year jousting with the federal government over immigration.
DaRosa acknowledged he came up short but blamed the lack of visibility and money for the outcome.
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A few years ago, the PRC / CCP flag was flown outside City Hall for a short time. With Wu back in office now, she’ll serve multiple terms, so they might as well fly that flag permanently
The third flagpole in front of Boston City Hall is a public forum where anyone can have any flag flown, and the mayor doesn’t get any say in it. So the Chinese flag is no reflection on Wu.
The end of my post should be “Cue the wet blanket.” Sheesh, Milhouse!
So you have exposed yourself as someone who doesn’t give a fuck about the truth. You don’t even care to know. You want to write whatever makes you feel good even if it’s a fucking lie, and you object to being corrected. In other words you’re a dishonest person, a garbage person, just as bad as any leftist. If you were a decent person you would appreciate the correction and thank me for it.
Any correction to be made is only in your mind. Feel free to reread my post, this time without your presumptions. You’re way off base here. I never implied the Chinese flag was first flown by Wu. I never lied. You’ve made a big leap here, then you descend into garbage assumptions and nasty language. Take the L.
If she wasn’t responsible for flying it then it’s irrelevant that it once flew there. The only reason for mentioning it is to associate Wu with it.
whoa!!!!
Domingos DaRosa said he was hoping recounts would turn up enough votes to place him on the ballot in the wake of Josh Kraft’s exit from the mayoral race.
trump crucified for ( allegedly) saying
find me the votes
what about this lefty wing activist !!!??
https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2025/09/16/hoping-to-join-wu-on-ballot-third-place-mayoral-candidate-pursues-recount/
btw
check out the political scene in boston
they must be jealous of chicago
I find it extraordinary that this article doesn’t bother to mention what party these “challengers” represent.
They didn’t. It’s a non-partisan election, so none of the candidates represent any party.
If you’re talking about their own personal affiliations, Wu, Kraft, and Capucci are all Democrats, while De Rosa is an independent.
Wu got more than 66,000 votes, Kraft got more than 21,000, while the other two got fewer than 3,000 each. Hence with Kraft out of the race, and the other two eliminated for not making the 3,000-vote threshold, she’s the only candidate left.
Boston is hopeless. I avoid going to the city and have for a long time since they starting a war on parking.
and it has been said that only NYC has idiots for voters
Oh there are plenty of cities with idiots for voters. Plenty. It would be easier to consider a city without idiotic voters but I can’t recall one,
Who ever said that?
But these voters had a choice between three Democrats and a leftist independent, so what were they supposed to do?
Move out of town. That’s what I finally did in Austin.
Smart move! My parents and brother left when things started getting super weird there in the 90s. They blamed this on the invasion of computer tech zombies, who linked up with the academic leftist contingent at UT, along with the influx of artistic snowflakes from the entertainment industry. The People’s Republic of Austin has been the result, which is routinely cutting edge crazy.