Arroyo celebrates win at Guira & Tambora in Roslindale. Photo by Robert Orthman.
Ricardo Arroyo, son of one former city councilor and brother of another, is looking like he'll be replacing Tim McCarthy in Hyde Park, Roslindale and Mattapan, while Liz Breadon is defeating Craig Cashman in Allston/Brighton in the race to replace Mark Ciommo.
Although the results of the four at-large seats are not yet set, it looks like 8 of the council's 13 seats will soon be held by women, the first time women have made up a majority on the council and a far cry from just seven years ago, when then at-large Councilor Ayanna Pressley was the only woman member. Tonight's results also mean that 7 of the councilors will be people of color, in a city that is now majority minority.
Incumbent at-large councilors Michael Flaherty, Michelle Wu and Annissa Essaibi-George look to maintain their seats - with Wu in a solid first place, so the Wu-for-mayor bandwagon picks up some speed. The fourth seat, which perennial candidate Althea Garrison took over when Pressley went to Washington, looks to be a close one between challengers Julia Mejia and Alejandra St. Guillen - the city says just 10 votes separate them.
St. Guillen called for a recount.
Sorry, Althea, it's back to yearly campaigns for you (and she's looking like she'll come in seventh, so no more moving up should another at-large councilor depart).
A non-binding citywide referendum on changing the name of Dudley Square to Nubian Square lost citywide but won in Roxbury.
Arroyo's win breaks Readville's stranglehold on the district. Arroyo, making his first bid for elective office, promised a more progressive platform for the seat. His father, Felix, and brother, also named Felix, had previously served as at-large councilors.
Breadon, a longtime Oak Square activist and physical therapist, was making her first bid for office. She announced her campaign even before Ciommo had announced his retirement, saying the district needed a councilor who would be more active in ensuring the neighborhood and its current residents needed protection in the onslaught of development that is sweeping across the district.
In District 4 (Dorchester), incumbent Andrea Campbell defeated challenger Jeff Durham.
In District 7 (Roxbury), incumbent Kim Janey defeated perennial homophobe Roy Owens.
In District 8 (Fenway, Back Bay, Mission Hill, Beacon Hill), Kenzie Bok will take over for the retiring Josh Zakim, defeating challenger Jennifer Nassour. Bok had won more than 50% of the vote in the September primary.
The remaining district races were uncontested, meaning councilors Lydia Edwards (District 1), Ed Flynn (District 2), Frank Baker (District 3) and Matt O'Malley (District 6) were re-elected.
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Comments
Magoo sez
By MisterMagooForYoo
Tue, 11/05/2019 - 9:08pm
Nuthin’. Magoo.
Dudley
By BostonDog
Tue, 11/05/2019 - 9:45pm
I have a colleague who lives in Brighton and voted against the Dudley question because he didn't think it was a suitable question (with him voting in Brighton) and thought a non-binding question was dumb anyway. That sort of attitude might explain the results.
A name that didn't make any sense
By redbaron
Tue, 11/05/2019 - 9:58pm
anyway. What would have happened to Dudley Street? Change that too?
I did not vote on it for the
By Muerl
Tue, 11/05/2019 - 10:32pm
I did not vote on it for the same reason.
Monuments
By Carmella
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 9:37am
When a monument, a square, a park, etc., is named for someone, it’s supposed to mean that the person did something in his life that made him worthy of remembering. I don’t know who Mr. Dudley was, but someone proposed and an elected body voted to eternal use his memory by naming a square for him. When we change the name of these things, we are showing contempt and disrespect not to the politicians who propose naming these areas for people, and not really even to the person it’s named for. We’re disrespecting the will of those who came before us and their voice in government. They voted for these politicians who made the proposal to name these things for people. When we change these names based on these whims, we’re essentially stealing their votes. I drove by Columbus Park in Southie one day and saw it was renamed Moakley Park, I assume to honor Joe Maokley. Mr. Moakley may certainly be worthy of being honored, but that park was already named for another guy. I say leave things as they are.
OK then..
By anon
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 9:52am
You must refer to this land as Shawmut and not Boston...
There is no reason to honor Columbus in Boston
By Ron Newman
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 9:52am
He (unlike either Moakley or Dudley) had no connection to our city.
Years ago, someone saw fit to
By Carmella
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 11:13am
Years ago, someone saw fit to honor him. Those wishes should be upheld.
No. Just no.
By Bob Leponge
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 11:37am
Years ago, someone saw fit to make slavery legal. Those wishes should not be upheld.
What connection is Nubian to Boston
By redbaron
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 11:45am
I thought most African Americans are descended from West African countries?
Nothing wrong with changing our minds
By Bob Leponge
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 9:57am
I know nothing about Dudley so this is about your general point and not about him specifically:
There is nothing inherently wrong with showing contempt and disrespect for past politicians and the voters who chose them. If I were, say, German in 1949 I would be fine with pulling down statues of Nazi leaders, for example.
Well
By Anon
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 11:43am
Does it make sense to name the square after a murderous slave-trading tribe? I get it, maybe Dudley wasn’t a saint and perhaps he owned slaves, but that’s like wanting to rename a square named after some minor nazi schmuck to The Third Reich Square.
Bob don't be an IDIOT
By redbaron
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 12:36pm
So you are comparing Dudley with Hitler? Makes sense because it works right. A lot has been made about JFK and MLK running around with multiple women. Why hasn't the ME TOO movement made any changes about them. God forbid (can i say God). But if it's Trump he is a womanizer etc. Can't have it both ways
Reading is fundamental
By Bob Leponge
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 12:46pm
Did you skip the part where I said that my comments were not about Dudley? But instead about the idea that past government or voter acts automatically have to be honored?
Columbus Park
By Ron Newman
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 9:59am
also, the name Columbus Park was moved to the North End waterfront (though I don't think it belongs there, either).
Disrespecting the votes of
By anon
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 11:36am
Disrespecting the votes of voters past? You're entitled to your opinion, of course, but that is an absurd opinion to have. A vote is a moment in time. Other than any entities that are legally obligated to abide by the aggregate results of an election (which in this case, there are none, since it was a non-binding ballot question), a vote is just a personal answer to a question. Voting does not entitle one to an eternal stake in the things being voted on. Nobody in the future has any obligation to "respect", or even be aware of, a past vote. Disrespect has nothing to do this this, and even if it did, who cares? Current votes are more important than past ones anyway.
If current voters value the opinions of past voters, they can cast their current votes accordingly. You sound like you just don't like the way people vote these days... and doesn't that mean you're disrespecting current voters? That seems worse than what you're complaining about.
I don't think Dudley Square was consciously named
By Ron Newman
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 10:23pm
Long ago, the town of Roxbury laid out and named Dudley Street.
Much later, the Boston Elevated Railway built an electric train line above Washington Street, and named most of the stations for the cross streets they were located at, such as Dover, Northampton, and ... Dudley. The roll signs on the #1 bus said "DUDLEY STA", not "SQ".
Still later, the MBTA torn down the El and moved the Orange Line to a different alignment. There was no longer a Dudley rapid transit station, though there was still a busy bus station. Without the Orange Line El looming above it, people started saying "Dudley Square" instead of "Station".
Renaming the area may make sense, but I think we can do better than "Nubian".
(by the way, this also happened elsewhere. When the MTA extended the subway west of Mass. Ave., they added a new station called "Kenmore", named after the small street that crossed Comm. Ave. at that point. Once the station opened, people began calling the surrounding area "Kenmore Square".)
Wu for Mayor!
By anon
Tue, 11/05/2019 - 9:56pm
Wu for Mayor!
The fact that Flaherty was re-elected
By Marco
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 10:16am
yesterday gives me very little hope of anyone un-seating Marty. Voter turnout is simply too low and the voters who do show up too ill-informed.
The voters who show up are ill informed
By redbaron
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 11:48am
Meaning what? The lazy you no who stay home. Because they are informed but why vote? I get my free whatever no matter who gets in. Your right Marty will get in again and again. Just like Tom M
There are those who are ill informed
By Waquiot
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 12:08pm
But in this case, not you.
The last incumbent mayor to lose office in Boston lost in 1949. I don't see Walsh becoming as out of touch as the guy who lost in '49 was. Same thing with Menino. And Flynn. White probably got out when it was time, but that was 16 years in- the guy survived busing.
In the end, the 13 elected yesterday were the best of the bunch, and I am writing that having voted for people who did not make the cut. That's democracy.
Was that supposed to be
By Coyote137
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 12:31pm
a coherent response?
I wonder...
By CopleyScott17
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 1:45pm
...how many voters think they have to vote for four at-large candidates, even though the ballot does say "...up to four..." I rarely use up all four choices. This year it was only two. But I bet a lot of people use all four even tbough they know nothing about some of the candidates other than their address
I wonder...
By CopleyScott17
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 1:45pm
...how many voters think they have to vote for four at-large candidates, even though the ballot does say "...up to four..." I rarely use up all four choices. This year it was only two. But I bet a lot of people use all four even tbough they know nothing about some of the candidates other than their address
Now what candidate
By redbaron
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 2:36pm
graduated from Mt Ida?
Davis Mullin, Hennigan, Tierney
By bulgingbuick
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 3:53pm
and so on and so on.
But all won't be lost
By Waquiot
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 4:08pm
In the long term, things worked out okay for Michael Flaherty after he was the guy to take on an incumbent mayor.
not saying it didnt end up this way....
By anon
Tue, 11/05/2019 - 10:14pm
but i saw way more maria esdale signs around HP than arroyo. from my persepective it seemed she was the front runner and makes me wonder how dug in his family really is....
Oh, and did you drive around Roslindale and Mattapan?
By adamg
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 12:29am
Because they're part of the district as well (I mean, I saw a fair number of her signs in Roslindale, but a lot of his as well).
Arroyo engaged in a pretty
By Jen TM
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 6:27am
Arroyo engaged in a pretty strong canvassing game, personally knocking on doors for months. Tons of his signs in my part of Roslindale, too, but yard signs don’t win elections anyhow.
That’s what wins elections.
By Carmella
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 11:14am
That’s what wins elections.
Signs don’t vote. Winning
By RalphM
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 8:48am
Signs don’t vote. Winning campaigns knock doors.
Maria knocked on OUR Roslindale door...
By Michael Kerpan
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 11:23am
... and we had a nice chat with her.
Dudley -> Nubian Square question
By Ron Newman
Tue, 11/05/2019 - 10:28pm
How is it doing in the Dudley Square neighborhood and in Roxbury generally? The city has said they will pay more attention to those results than to the citywide results for that question.
I live in Roxbury and I voted
By cfp
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 8:47am
I live in Roxbury and I voted against it. Anecdotal evidence, I know, but I just don't like the name. I know many of my neighbors felt the same way.
I kind of feel like this
By ZachAndTired
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 8:55am
I kind of feel like this question should have only been on the ballot for people (like you) who live in Roxbury (and the surrounding area). I didn't feel right in having a say in something like this, given that I live in a different part of the city and didn't really have a feel for how most people who would actually be impacted by this feel about it.
The Secretary of State's
By Rob P
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 12:11pm
The Secretary of State's office ruled the Dudley Square question had to be on the ballot in all of Boston by law, not just Roxbury. But the Walsh administration said it will focus on the results in Roxbury when deciding what to do here.
Though as a taxpayer in the
By Brent Jeffries
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 12:12pm
Though as a taxpayer in the city of Boston you'd have to pay for all the rebranding and other administrative costs associated with implementing the name change. So it is something you should have a say in.
Do you really think that 90% of the
By redbaron
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 12:21pm
residents in Roxbury really care about a name change??? come on they are worried about their jobs, rent, and putting food on the table. This is a community activist stiring up the racial pot backed by white liberals who want to change everything that isn't LBGTQZEVFG etc.
Nubian Square how foolish is that. Can't even come up with a proper name.
What they did to renaming Tom Yawkey Way
By redbaron
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 12:28pm
Was an absolute disgrace. Henry and Wlash should be ashamed of themselves. The Yawkey foundation has given anywhere from 500 million to 1 Billions dollars in grant money to inner city programs and foundations. And because he didn't sign Jackie Robinson to a contract etc. he is a racist. Plenty of other teams passed on him.
Of course that's your guy
By Parkwayne
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 2:48pm
Read anything about Yawkey and you'll see why he's widely recognized as a racist but then, reading... your bete noire, I know.
Not really
By Bob Leponge
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 5:36pm
He wasn't a racist because he didn't sign Jackie Robinson to a contract. His racism was well documented; not signing Jackie Robinson was merely one way in which that racism manifested itself.
I don't know say for instance
By redbaron
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 12:58pm
Someone wants to change the name Copley Square, should only the Back Bay and South End residents vote on it? I have gone to Copley Library many times there use to be a BPS Copley High etc. Just can't keep changing names
Poor triggered little snowflake
By Parkwayne
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 3:56pm
You really can't handle any changes, can you?
God Help Us
By Bobby Biscuits
Tue, 11/05/2019 - 11:57pm
This family touches everything including the third rail. What’s the Over / Under on this guy “taking a leave of absence for personal reasons and becoming “Embattled” ?
Not how that works
By Riptor
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 4:17am
4. The over/under is 4
Now how do you get suspended from
By redbaron
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 2:40pm
Register of Probate? for doing nothing? What are you suppose to do?
Nice, we got what we deserve.
By anon
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 8:11am
Nice, we got what we deserve. Bostonians cast 66,884 ballots — representing about 16 percent of registered voters.
Althea should just relocate to DC
By Friartuck
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 8:39am
Surely, Daddy Trump will be calling her any day now...
Nubian Square?
By JCOnABike
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 8:40am
I can understand the desire to do an about-face from the slaving ways of Dudley, but naming a square after an ethnicity is ill thought out. Name it after a person--Crispus Attucks, who fell in the revolution, or MLK, who was educated here, or the late Mayor Menino, who did so much to beautify the city. Or do a stretch, Boston, and name it after a WOMAN for once. NOT Louise Day Hicks! How about MELNEA CASS (look her up)? Or ELMA LEWIS?
Frankly, when I think of "Nubian," I think of "A Nubian Notion" which was the go-to shop for all sorts of cool stuff for one's dorm room back in the day. And while the memories of African fabrics and incense burners are fond, they aren't the basis for a square name.
Let's honor a person, a female person, optimally, with a square name and a statue--give the kids someone to look up to!
About naming streets etc after MLK
By redbaron
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 1:15pm
I read where in Kansas City MO., the voters voted AGAINST naming a stretch of road called
"The Paseo' after MLK. The city council in January 2019 voted 8-4 in favor of changing name to MLK Drive. But voters overturned it yesterday by a vote of 70% to 30%.
Not a bad choice MLK, but they don't want change.
How was the naming proposal developed?
By Bob Leponge
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 5:43pm
Isn't that (now defunct) business the root of the naming proposal? There's ample precedent in naming squares after businesses: Times Square comes to mind.
And what’s that tall building by Times Square?
By Waquiot
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 9:26pm
I believe it is the New York Times Building.
Now, if they want to rename Columbus Square the Journal American Square, you’d have a point.
Elma Lewis Square would be my choice
By Ron Newman
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 10:14pm
More meaningful locally than 'Nubian', and there's nothing else named after her that I know of. (Melnea Cass already has a Boulevard.)
Why not name it after an
By anon
Thu, 11/07/2019 - 8:48am
Why not name it after an economic entity that serviced the public, was used a locator to the area ?
Ferdinand's Blue Store : 2260 Washington Street, corner Warren, established 1869.
https://cdm.bostonathenaeum.org/digital/collection...
It’s frightening to see how
By Carmella
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 9:27am
It’s frightening to see how low this city has sunk. We’ve elected a city council, the majority of which does not believe in any form of self-accountability. They only believe in the state. What’s horrifying is that even if these people lost, the also-rans were just as bad. Families and middle-class jobs driven from the city have left us with this. It’s really sad to see what has happened to Boston. I wonder what statue this council will choose as the first to be removed.
please explain further?
By Ron Newman
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 9:30am
Can you provide some examples of this? I do not really understand what you are referring to here.
[quote] We’ve elected a city council, the majority of which does not believe in any form of self-accountability.[/quote]
No Examples
By Carmella
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 9:39am
I won’t be providing any examples.
Of course
By fungwah
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 9:48am
And even if you never have any examples to point to, we can look forward to you complaining about it on every semi-related article for the next 18 months anyway.
Majestic
By erik g
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 10:36am
"Look at these candidates we chose! The city has self-evidently sunk into moral and spiritual depravity, and won't someone please think of the children?"
"Uh... can you give me an example of what you're talking about? Doesn't have to be a scholarly article or anything, we're just wondering what the hell you're on about this time."
"No."
Bookmarked for the next time you demand explanation of, well, anything.
I never receive explanations
By Carmella
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 11:17am
I never receive explanations or examples, but I’m expected to explain each word I choose? Please.
OK Boomer
By anon
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 12:47pm
OK Boomer
Do you ever ask for citations?
By Neal
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 1:59pm
Or do you just prefer to complain without giving a valid reason because it makes you feel better about yourself?
No accountability for this comment
By registeredUser2
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 11:17am
Gone are the days people can anonymously comment gobbledygook in internet comment sections without accountability for their erroneous comments. You have been called out for providing no examples and complaining about nothing.
Exhibit A
By Anon
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 9:58am
Rent control.
Q
By bulgingbuick
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 3:44pm
Q is the answer....deep state...pizza...Hillary....
Uh...
By Dot net
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 9:40am
I'm not aware of any statue removal stances that were big this council election cycle. Or any evidence of anything you just typed. It's frightening to see how paranoid some voters have sunk.
Wasn’t there a question on
By Carmella
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 9:45am
Wasn’t there a question on the ballot to change the name of Dudley Square?
What's that have to do with the city council candidates?
By fungwah
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 9:47am
They're not the ones who put it on there. Heck, I don't even think any of them took a public stance on the question one way or another.
Give it some time. You’ll be
By Carmella
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 9:49am
Give it some time. You’ll be hearing how we have to rid the city of all things that are “Old Boston”.
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