ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT MAYOR BURKE AND THE VARSITY COACH SCANDAL?
May 31, 2016 BOSTON GLOBE EDITORIAL
It can’t be comfortable in City Hall watching the scandal grow in slow motion. Worse, it’s a distraction for officials and bad for the city itself.
NOT YET, BUT THEY WILL BE...SOON!!!!! IF THERE IS ANY JUSTICE IN THE WORLD.
HEY MADAME KNIGHT, HOW ABOUT THOSE UNIONS!!!!
FILE UNDER: (UN)CIVIL UNION!
According to federal prosecutors, a Walsh administration official, Kenneth Brissette, demanded that the festival hire union labor if it wanted the permit necessary to use City Hall Plaza for its event. Brissette has been charged with extortion but denies the allegations. Left unclear in the federal indictment was just how much other city officials may have known about his demands. The indictment said another city official told the festival to hire union stagehands without naming him or her.
One message released Friday, from a union official, also mentions the mayor: “I’m confident we can get a deal for a dozen or so stagehands especially with Mayor Walsh’s backing,” wrote Colleen A. Glynn, business manager for the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 11.
But the conduct of officials who work for him is the mayor’s responsibility. So is safeguarding the reputation of the City of Boston, which could be hurt by a protracted federal investigation. Brissette’s indictment called into question the integrity of Boston’s permitting under Walsh. The best way for the mayor to repair that impression would be to hold his staff accountable and level with the voters about who at City Hall knew what, and when.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2016/05/30/editorial-time-for-walsh-come-clean/zRZBYHmvAUEGmtEPbUMuUO/story.html
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