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>> Hello, and welcome to Bostonian Wrap. My name is Rachel Meiselman. You are listening to me on WBCALP, 102.9 FM Boston. This is Boston's Community Radio Station. So we're going to go to a quick disclaimer like we always do, and then we're going to come back and jump right on in to tonight's show. >> The following commentary does not necessarily reflect the views of the staff and management of WBCA or the Boston Neighborhood Network. If you would like to express another opinion, you can address your comments to Boston Neighborhood Network, 302-5 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02119. To arrange a time for your own commentary, you can call WBCA at 617-708-3215 or email radio at bnnmedia.org. >> Hello, and welcome back to Bostonian Wrap. My name is Rachel Meiselman, and as always, I have a lot to say. But I would like to share a new feature. So listeners, you can now call in, because of course, this show is live. You can call in, and the number for that is 617-70. 832-11. So again, that number is 617-708-3211. So let's get right down to it. I want to talk about the race for Supreme Judicial Court Clerk of Suffolk County, filled that Alison Cartwright won, and Alison Cartwright didn't just win. She set a standard for a race that generally doesn't get a whole heck of a lot of attention. She really, really set a high bar, and I'm proud of the work that she put in to this race, because she really did. I want to tell people that this really needs to be stressed. When you have a sitting elected official that runs for either re-election or runs for another office, it's significantly easier to do than someone who has a job that does not involve performing the duties of a public office, because when you are an elected official, you can just go to events, and, yeah, sure, you're fulfilling duties. You can certainly say that you're fulfilling duties that you currently have, but at the same time, if it does happen to be a bid for another office that you're engaged in, you can also use that as an opportunity to promote yourself, and to talk about the bid for the other office that you're engaged in. But if you, again, are employed in a position that doesn't involve or revolve around performing duties of a public office, you're juggling another job, essentially, and you have to take time off from work. You go through your vacation time, and sometimes you're even, you know, depending on how you're doing, what needs to be done to run a successful campaign, a competitive campaign, you even have to sometimes take a leave of absence. And so it certainly wasn't easy for Alison Cartwright, she was going up against Aaron Murphy, who had an initial advantage in that, you know, she's an elected official, she's one of the four at large Boston City Councilors, so there was that name recognition. But really, it was an incredibly smart campaign, and there were a number of things that were done that kind of, you know, maybe nod my head and say, okay, this was a good move. So an example is Lydia Edwards' efforts to support Alison. So again, this position clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County includes the voters for all of Suffolk County. So it's Revere, Chelsea, Winthrop, and Boston. Lydia Edwards as a state senator, of course she's known very well, I would say, throughout Boston. She represented for maybe the three terms, I believe, on the City Council, the neighborhoods of Charlestown, East Boston, where she resides, where she's been residing for quite some time for well over a decade, and the North and Warder Front, a little of downtown Boston. And now a state senator, she is representing all of Revere, which again is in Suffolk County, all of Winthrop, which again is in Suffolk County, and she's representing, she's no longer representing Charlestown, but she's still representing East Boston, the North and West End, the waterfront, a little bit of downtown Boston, and she's also representing a little bit of Fenway, a good chunk of the Back Bay, and a nice bit of Beacon Hill. So what Lydia did was she sent out a flyer because she's actually running for re-election herself, and she sent a flyer touting her achievements as state senator, and she also used this flyer, this mailer, as an opportunity to promote Alice in Cartwright. And so people who got Lydia's flyer were also getting info on Alice in Cartwright, and this flyer would have gone out to these particular places in Boston that I just enumerated that are represented by Edwards, and then of course all of Revere and Winthrop. So there were really, I think, savvy moves like that that were done, and so we're talking about not only then good moves on the part of Alice in Cartwright, but also really nice collaborations, I'm going to call them. And I think she, well, I know she given the results, I know she did really just overall excellent work to make up for what was initially a disadvantage, and just all of her hard work, I mean, as we were coming into the home stretch, it was very obvious that any advantage that Aaron did have, Aaron Murphy, it was, it just, it evaporated. Another thing that I really liked about Alice in Cartwright's campaign was the focus. There was a really clear focus, and I'm, you know, I'm going to say this, there's so many things I like about Alice in Cartwright. I like that she's supremely qualified for the position, but I like her discipline and I like her focus. So let me, so let me jump back to that. She kept on hammering home the point that she was the lawyer, that she was the lawyer, that she was the only attorney in the race. And it was never done in a way that disparaged Aaron Murphy, because if that had been the case, that could have well cost Alice in votes, because people might have said, okay, well, you're right, you are very qualified. We do think that an attorney, a lawyer would be much better in this role. However, you don't seem to be very respectful. No, Alice in Cartwright was always respectful and the focus just drilling at home, banging at home, just I'm the only attorney in the race. I'm the only attorney in the race. I'm the only attorney in the race. And then she tied it in to the responsibilities of the office, right? And explained on top of that, so then it was like, you know, like three parts, you know, I'm an attorney. It would help me do these, you know, the jobs. And then she went on to explain why the job that she would do in fulfilling these tasks in these different components of the job, why being an attorney, that knowledge that she possesses of the law, of the court system, why that would enable her not only to do the job, but to do it in a way that would allow the court to function in the way that we would hope and the way that we would expect. And at the same time, there was the effort to show that this job that she would do, it could not be done in the same way or even at all by Aaron Murphy. And I think that was really kind of a delicate balance in act because some of the rhetoric coming from Aaron Murphy wasn't very conducive to a race being run cleanly and respectively. There was, I think, aggressive language at different points. And so I think that it was important that Cartwright just stayed laser focused on the task in hand, and that was to hammer home her point. And she deserved the victory. She did because it wasn't that she just kind of said, well, come on, I mean, I have the qualifications for this job. I have been doing aspects of this job for however many years. I have the relationships because I have been working in the court system for however many years. I have additional knowledge that would inform me in my efforts to bring the court to the people. It was just, it was, it was really, I think, masterfully done. It really was. And I think that, you know, I'm going to throw this out here, just speak in generally, when you're running a race and when someone is being aggressive or not fair, engaging in behavior that is not quite frankly reputable, it's very hard to remain focused on the goals. It's very hard to, and I know this from experience, it's very hard to stay focused on the race. And you have to decide as a candidate how much or at all that you're going to respond to someone when they're not engaged in honorable behavior. And, you know, I'll give it really concrete example. Erin Murphy was claiming endorsements that she hadn't received. And in a couple instances, the organizations, the groups, they weren't able to give endorsements to anyone. They were prohibited. And so for Erin Murphy to claim that she had received endorsements, it's bad enough to say that you had received endorsements from a group or give the impression that you had received an endorsement from an individual, maybe a union. That's all bad enough. But when you involve an entity that is legally prohibited from giving endorsements, it's you're really doing something that then is not only going to backfire on you, but it could potentially cause some very serious problems for the entities in question. So that was really unfortunate. And there were other instances during this race where Erin Murphy did not really behave in a way that was, shall we say, responsible. And I guess there were enough voters who agreed with me. So look, I understand that most of these elected positions, they're generally decided by a very small number of people because a very small number of people come out and vote. Having said that, I think in this particular race, I do think it's telling that even though the numbers weren't high, I still think it says a lot that Cartwright secured so much of the vote. And so let me give you some of the numbers. So Cartwright won every city except for Winthrop. And I mean, she didn't do horribly in Winthrop. I mean, she still did, respectively. So it looks like in Revere, Cartwright won 45.4% to Murphy's 39.9%. And then in Chelsea, Cartwright prevailed with 58.5% to 40.8%, which was garnered by Murphy. Winthrop, as I said, was won by Murphy. She got 52.6% to Cartwright's 45.7%. But I mean, that's not terrible. I mean, those numbers aren't horrible for Cartwright. But because Boston is the most popular city in Suffolk County, what happened in Boston really did a lot to determine the race. So in Boston, it looks like roughly 60,000 votes were cast, nearly 60,000 votes. And Cartwright won by my goodness. I think she won by big margins. But I want to get the exact number. I saw one figure, and it looked like it was nearly 20%. I think 20%. So let me just see. I'm looking here because I like to get not only my words correct, but I'm also very particular about my numbers too. So results appearing overnight in Boston. Okay, so yeah, so she won by nearly 20%. And I think that that, I think maybe overall, but in Boston, I do think it was big. It was big. So I'll try to get those exact numbers from Boston. But she won by a significant amount. I think it was, I want to say 60, 40. But I just want to make sure that that's not, you know, kind of reflective of overall, like the overall results as opposed to just Boston. But it was, it was a big night for for Alison Carr, right? And again, she deserved it. And I think that all this, this, this, this talk about, you know, proxy battle between moderates and conservatives versus progressives, it was just a bunch of rubbish. It was a bunch of bunk. And, you know, I made the point that Alison could not have been competitive without the help of the progressives. Let's be clear. Let's be abundantly clear. You know, obviously when you have the mayor of Boston behind you, that opens up a tremendous amount of resources, not just money. You know, people might be more inclined to donate to you, certainly if you're backed by the mayor. And then of course, if you're backed by the mayor, then, you know, people might want to also volunteer for you. And that might come in the way of phone banking or door knocking, lid dropping. You know, of course, she had Ayanna Presley and she, you know, did a lot of work along the lines of Lydia Edwards in kind of putting herself out there because she's also up for reelection. But at the same time, you know, given Alison a shout out, of course that that's going to that's going to help because Ayanna has been in office for a while. She's been a politician for a while, just like Michelle, Michelle Wu, Mayor Wu. And so they have a base. They have a base. And that's energizing the base. And that's getting people all the more enthusiastic about, in this case, Alison Cartwright. So that obviously helped. And then you had a whole slew of other candidates, Gabrielle Colletta, I think, was a very important endorsement to get because I don't know if how many people know this, but Gabrielle Colletta is the Democratic State Committee woman for the Third Suffolk District. So her efforts could further bolster Lydia Edwards and vice versa. Because I think that Gabrielle Colletta might even be in her second or third. She's definitely not in her first term. So I think she's actually, I think she just got elected to her third term. So, you know, that further helps in Revere and Winthrop, and then the parts of Boston that are in the Third Suffolk District. So this undeniably lifted Alison Cartwright. And I'm going to tell people that when you're running for office, and when you have people come in and say, I'm going to back you, that gives the appearance of strength. And it translates to strength and reality, as I just explained. So that was huge. That was, that was really huge. And of course, you had the majority of the Boston City Councilors, eight of the 13 City Councilors in Boston endorsed Alison. Huge, massive. You had other people like Representative Jay Livingstone. You had, oh my goodness, all different different people you had Representative Sam Montano, just all these different people. And so it was really a big boost to Alison's campaign. But again, it all comes down to Alison because she put in the work. She was a great candidate. She had the focus and she stayed on message. And man, she was everywhere. And as I said, because she's, you know, not an elected official, not yet. She's, she's a clerk elect. It's a balancing act. It's a juggling act. And she's also a parent. So definitely was not an easy undertaking. But I was still caution the elation of some progressives because the fact of the matter is, I don't think it's unreasonable, rather forgive me, pardon me. I don't think it's unreasonable to assert that moderates and conservatives helped Alison win. So I think that the progressives allowed Alison to be competitive, even very competitive. But I think what really guaranteed not only just a win for Alison Cartwright, but a decisive win moderates and conservatives. And so my point is that she was a candidate that had broad based appeal. And it was, it was a nice thing to see so many people just say, Hey, look, this woman, she she has the qualifications. It's not the lesser of two evils. I don't have to hold my nose to vote for Cartwright. Not only wish she qualified, but she was incredibly qualified. I like to say supremely qualified. And Aaron Murphy, respect respectfully, was not qualified at all. And you know, I'll make a last few points. After the election, Aaron didn't concede immediately. And there was an article in the Herald that really rather carried her water. There's really no excuse for Aaron not conceding. There was no excuse. It was it was a low class behavior. It was very ungracious. It's important to be gracious and victory as well as defeat. And I appreciate trust me. I appreciate that it is harder, much harder sometimes to be more graceful when you lose. But she is a sitting, she's a sitting elected official. She is running for re-election now, I guess, for the Boston City Council. It's not a good look for her not to have conceded in a time frame that is respectable. It equally isn't a good look that Alison was not congratulated by Aaron Murphy. It's I just the lack of grace, the lack of qualifications. And I really think that this isn't going to go away. Murphy in a statement says that she's going to take some time to regroup, reset, and then come back refreshed, take a couple of days to continue to make a positive impact on the city. Because of Murphy's behavior during this race, and in the wake of defeat, I think that just like Murphy underestimated what people, where people are at right now, mentally, like people want substance, people want to hear about someone who knows what he or she's doing. People want someone who's qualified, people are sick of the cronyism, people are sick of people getting hired because they check off the right boxes. I actually do support diversity and equity and inclusion. But I put in the word equality, so I will talk about DEI. But in all that, I'm still only going to help provide opportunities to people who are qualified. And so I think that underestimating what people want right now, or not understanding what people want, and then what I believe is going to be wrongly assessing what people think and feel right now after her race. I think Murphy's going to have to really, really, really put in work to get reelected because people are going to remember her conduct during the race. They're going to remember her loss. And it's not going to just go away. She can't just pretend she didn't run and she didn't lose bigly. It's there. It's not going anywhere, that loss. And the fact that she decided to throw her hat and ring for a position that she wasn't at all qualified to do a mere three months after getting sworn in for her second term on the council, because people. Ira Murphy hasn't even been a Boston City Councilor for a term and a half. She hasn't even been in office for three years. So I do think it's going to be difficult for her when she runs for re-election. I think she's going to have to have some conversations with people. And I don't know if she's equipped to do that. But honestly, the best person won. And I think a lot of people regardless of where they fall in the political spectrum, I think that they're, they're, they're happy. They're smiling about this because they're like, wow, okay, so someone who paid her dues, who's well qualified, who's pleasant, who's affable, she won. And it's a good day. It's a good day for democracy. So I am going to go to a quick break. And when I come back, I'm going to talk about some shenanigans that some people have been up to. And remember, you can call in. We have that feature now. So that's really, I think that's really cool. An additional way to engage with people on our radio station. So 617-708-3211. That is the number to call in. But we're going to go to a quick break first. 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My name is Rachel Mosleman, and you are listening to me on WBCALP 102.9 FM Boston. This is Boston's Community Radio Station. So I have those numbers. I do want to pivot and go on to another topic, but I did want to get those numbers for people. It looks like there might be a slight fluctuation, but it looks roughly approximately like in Boston. Alison Cartwright got 59.56% of the vote, which is just wow, that's just awesome. So that translates to about 30,358 votes, and Murphy, Aaron Murphy, Boston City Council, Aaron Murphy got approximately 40.22% of the votes. And that translates to in terms of number of votes, 20,500 votes. So those are roughly the numbers. They're not going to change greatly. Really in every city, every city, except for Winthrop, Alison won handily. And you can really see how the work translates, the work that she and her campaign did, how it translates concretely by the numbers in Boston. Because again, Boston was supposed to be where Aaron had that huge advantage. It was supposed to be a stronghold, if you will. But I will also tell people that even if you look in certain precincts, certain wards and precincts, like say in Dorchester, Alison did really well. There were certain in West Roxbury, certain wards, precincts, where one might have expected, there we go, Aaron to have really, to have outpaced Alison Cartwright, Alison really held her own. So really, just any way you look at it, very, very impressive. And as I said, even in Winthrop, the number of votes that she got, the percentage, very respectable. And just in a last quick note, someone might, you know, kind of try to correct me about Winthrop. But it's a town. Technically, Winthrop is a city. There was an act, a piece of legislation that dates back to 2005. Winthrop passed Winthrop then and went into effect in 2006. So since then, Winthrop has styled itself as a town. There might be, not might be, there are some trappings of town, town government, but it is ultimately a city. So there, I just want to make that clear. It is technically a city, but it styles itself, not only in feel, but it's organization, it styles itself as a town. So there, a town with like a city, what am I looking for, the flourishes of a city. So there we go. So let's move on to another topic. So Catherine Vitaly, I have spoken about Catherine Vitaly before, and I focused on her, obviously, as a person engaged in behavior that I find reprehensible. So people who are less familiar with Catherine, she is an activist, and I use that term very loosely, but then the word activist really doesn't mean much anymore, it truly doesn't. But she's for whatever it's worth an activist, or she's someone who kind of does what she can to get attention. So I don't really know any word for that. Maybe a bit of a con artist, I would say for sure. But certainly her activity, her activity, nothing she does is done with authenticity, with sincerity. And I think a lot of people are starting to catch on. And while I do want to talk about her as a person, by way of sharing what I think of her latest stunts, ultimately, I think that I think it's talking, talking about what she's doing. It's speaking to a broader phenomenon that really doesn't sit well with me. So let me just dive right on in. So what often happens with Catherine Vitaly, and people like her, there always seems to be incidents. She's always getting into verbal confrontations, sometimes they're physical confrontations, but there's always something going on. And quite frankly, it feels like you're in the middle of some reality show. It feels like when people are using their neighbors, Wi-Fi, it feels like I don't have Netflix, and it feels kind of like I have somehow have Netflix, and I'm watching one of their scripted series, and it's just you know, I don't have it. It's like, oh gee, do I have, am I taking advantage, somehow taking advantage, unbeknownst to me, I somehow was able to tap into, I did something, not realizing what I was doing, and now I have access to my neighbor's Netflix, I don't know. There's always something going on. It's just like, what adventures will Catherine have today? And I can't imagine living my life like that. I can't, because it's just, oh my gosh, why don't you just try to do something of merit? Why don't you try to do something of substance? Nope, nope, nope, nope. We're just going to have confrontations, and some people, I'm sure remember, Rayla Campbell, and Rayla Campbell was getting into when Rayla Campbell and I were running to be the Republican nominee in 2020 for the seventh congressional district seat. Rayla was getting into a lot of physical confrontations, like actual, it wasn't just verbal, it was actual physical confrontations, and I said to people, I said, you know, I'm sorry, but she's not the black conservative that white liberals and black liberals love to hate. Like, she is looking for these fights. These, these incidents, she instigates these incidents so that she can get attention, so that she can build name recognition so that she can garner sympathy. My message was essentially, don't get played. And, you know, there were a lot of people, though, who did allow themselves to get played, and they, they will, they allowed themselves to get sucked in, and, and it was, oh, poor Rayla, oh my gosh, oh, this is so horrible. And did you hear about that fight? Is she okay? Oh my gosh, does she, does she break her leg or break her foot? You know, and it was just people. Come on, like she's playing you like Nintendo. And of course, later on, people saw that because when she ran against Bill Galvin, suddenly, she didn't get into any more fist fights. She was not getting into any more physical confrontations. And, you know, and of course, I do find it kind of offensive because, you know, there's, there was definitely a racial layer to it because you, you have Rayla Campbell running against me. I'm also a woman of color. And somehow it was acceptable for Rayla to get attention and to show her worth, and to show her merit for the sea. Somehow, it was decided that it was acceptable for her to get into physical confrontations. But when she's running against, you know, when she's, you know, has a Republican nomination, she doesn't have any challenge, you know, opponents rather not challenges, but opponents. And she's running against Bill Galvin. Suddenly, there are no more fist fights. I mean, come on. You know what I mean? It's, it was, it was like, like, let's degrade ourselves for money and clicks and views and for whatever else we can get. And I kind of, I remember thinking at various points, like, come on, lady, let's have a little bit of dignity. Would you please? But I mentioned Rayla because Catherine, it's, it's coming from the same school, if you will. And so I've mentioned this a number of times on the show. It's one of my ongoing themes now. And it's the idea of people racing to the bottom, but there's no bottom in sight. And it's not going to stop until people, enough people stand up and say, okay, we've had it. This behavior is scummy. You're acting like a sleaze ball. You're acting undignified. This is not what we want to see in a candidate. This is in what we want to see in a community leader. We want substance. We want plans. We want grace. We want dignity. So instead, until people start, and enough people start speaking like that, this phenomenon of racing to the bottom with no end in sight. And unfortunately, I'm seeing it primarily on my side of the aisle, right? Because I don't, don't get me wrong, there are plenty of problems on the political left. And I can, I could talk about them for days, but I'm not afraid. And I have no, you know, I'm not, I don't have any hesitation. There's no hesitation on my part. Like I'm going to talk about the right if I see a problem. I really, truly am. So Catherine, who identifies with the right, but sometimes she says things that, you know, quite frankly, recall some of the ideas on the political left. And it's not all that uncommon either. But the point is, is she's, she's engaged in this never ending, you know, what happened to Catherine today? And so recently, she was in a bike lane. And she was, I think, waiting for somebody. And this was in Boston. And she was approached by a police officer. Instead of just saying, oh, I'm sorry, officer and driving off. She of course had to engage in a, in a back and forth. The police officer was incredibly professional, by the way. And it resulted in her license being run and her, her, not her plate being run. And it was, it was, it was, it was discovered that her license had, had been suspended. And of course, you know, Catherine still had to talk and, and of course, the camera was on because, you know, if, if the camera's not on, it didn't happen. And if there's no video, then what's the point in placing yourself in a situation that's uncomfortable or that could put you in a cause problems for you, maybe even legal problems? What's the point of doing all that? If there are no pictures or preferably videos that can then be parlayed into some kind of obscene bizarre clout, if you will. So that got a tremendous amount of attention. So she said, you know, I'm going to continue to mind this. And so what then happened was there was an incident she was driving in Quincy with, with a friend who, you know, quite frankly, engages in behavior that's equally unsuitable for someone who's running for public office because she and her friend are both running for public office. So Sean, and Sean Nelson, and it's just between the two of them. It's like, okay, I mean, it's, I don't, I don't even know if someone, if someone talked to them, like, I don't even know if that would have any effect. But yeah, so Catherine and her friend, Sean Nelson, they both ran for a Boston City Council in 2023. And I believe that they're both running in 2025. They got into a confrontation with a person on a bicycle. And so it escalated and it ended with Sean taking the bike, the person's bike, and tossing it a few feet. And I understand that that plays well with a certain crowd. But these two are running for office, presumably bull, presumably Sean is running for office as well. And it's just, you can't engage in that behavior. In fact, it doesn't meant like, even if you're not running for office, even if you don't want to hold yourself out as a community leader, even if you're just Joe Schmo, you know, Jane Doe, and you just, you're going about your business and you're part of like the public at large. You still, you can't just pop off at people and, and just, just the idea of taking someone's bike and just tossing it a few feet, and then laughing about it, you know, Sean and Catherine were laughing about it. It's just, I don't get that. I don't, I just, I just, I don't understand. I don't understand how that makes any sense. So I just, I just, I'm tired. And there's got to be enough people who are tired though before this behavior stops. And I'm going to tell you this. I asked Catherine now for the recently for the, I don't know what the hundredth time, where's your plan for methadomile? And what prompted that was because she was trying to have a go at Boston City Council or Ed Flynn. Who does his job? He does his job. So to say something about Ed Flynn, when he is doing his job, blows my mind. And that's, that's another thing, the lack of consistency, because when you have people who engage in stunts, low brow, low class stunts, like Catherine and others, the same people tend to also be all over the map. One day they're praising this person the next day, they're, they're not, or let me give you a concrete example. There is a state senator Rebecca Roush and Catherine expressed a lot of hostility toward Rebecca because of her beliefs. And the, the upshot was that when Rebecca had a challenger, instead of supporting the challenger, Catherine went off on the challenger too. I'm going to actually start my next week show with us to continue this race to the bottom behavior and talking about Catherine as well as others. But unfortunately, that's all we have time for tonight. Thank you so much for listening and I look forward to hanging out with you next week. The preceding commentary does not necessarily reflect the views of the staff and management of WBCA or the Boston Neighborhood Network. If you would like to express another opinion, you can address your comments to Boston Neighborhood Network, 302-5 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02119. To arrange a time for your own commentary, you can call WBCA at 617-708-3215 or email radio@bnandmedia.org.