Did Zac Bears Praise the Our Revolution New Mayor of Cambridge? Who does he think he is? The new Madame Knight?
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Welcome to the Revolution - Cambridge Mayor Siddiqui appears to have caved in - allegedly to the detriment of the citizens of Cambridge vis-a-vis affordable housing included with the courthouse deal. "Sumbul Siddiqui, a councilor elected in 2017 with endorsements from several labor unions and, notably, two left-wing organizations that put boots on the ground in electoral contests: Our Revolution Cambridge and Boston Democratic Socialists of America."
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Under pressure from city leadership and Leggat, Siddiqui had clearly made a deal for her vote in advance. She announced the deal by laying out what she wanted for that vote toward the end of the hearing—basically doubling the number of affordable housing units from 24 to 48 and throwing another $3.5 million at Cambridge’s Affordable Housing Trust. To which the Leggat lawyer, former mayor and disgraced former State Sen. Anthony Galluccio, agreed shortly after asking Mayor McGovern for “30 seconds to a minute” to discuss the new deal. But not before McGovern literally called his old pal “Gooch” in open session—having also called Galluccio “councilor” at another point. As the ex-con’s mayoral portrait looked down on the highly unusual scene from the wall.
GALLUCCIO
State Senator Anthony D. Galluccio stood in a Medford courtroom yesterday, red faced and clearly shaken, as a guard pulled his hands behind his back and placed handcuffs on his wrists, preparing to take him to serve an immediate one-year jail sentence for violating the terms of his house arrest by drinking alcohol.
“He didn’t last a week,’’ said District Court Judge Matthew J. Nestor , who concluded that the Cambridge Democrat violated the alcohol restriction of his probation on Dec. 21, only three days after he was sentenced to home confinement following a hit-and-run accident in October that injured a 13-year-old boy.
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5 Investigates: alleged drunk driving incident involving T cop sparks investigations
Officer is not arrested or charged
BOSTON —
Questions are being raised about how State Police handled an alleged drunk driving incident over the weekend involving an MBTA Transit Police officer, 5 Investigates had learned.
Transit Police officials tell us that the officer has been placed on paid administrative leave, and his gun has been taken away, but State Police said he was not arrested and no charges were filed.
We have also learned that the incident is under investigation by both the state and transit police.
Sources told 5 Investigates the Transit Police officer, Joe Sacco, was allegedly drunk behind the wheel. A Fallon ambulance crew spotted him driving erratically and called 911, the sources said, and Sacco pulled over by the Bunker Hill Community College T stop before state police arrived.
At the time of the incident, the transit cop was off duty, in his personal vehicle, and with his department-issued gun. Sacco is a veteran, the secretary of the Transit Police Officers Association the son of Medford Police Chief Leo Sacco.