The Herald reports that Jorge Mendoza-Iturralde, one of the North End restaurant owners with beef over dining on patios on public sidewalks plans to run for mayor against Michelle Wu next year.
Mendoza-Iturralde was one of the plaintiffs in the original suit over the issue, in which he and the others accused Wu of hating white Italian men as her only reason for charging North End restaurant owners a fee to be able to set up patios on sidewalks and at the curb in the wake of the pandemic, rather than because of unique trash and parking issues in the crowded neighborhood.
In January, he joined with a larger group of North End restaurant owners in a revived suit after the city banned all such patios on public property in the North End, this time claiming Wu just hates Italians.
Mendoza-Iturralde was also a plaintiff in a lawsuit over the city's brief masking requirement for indoor spaces, which a federal judge dismissed.
Mendoza-Iturralde joins a short list of possible opponents for Wu that includes Josh Kraft, who until recently lived in Brookline, but who is now registered to vote in the North End.
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LOL
By cybah
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:49am
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Yes I came back just to say that. LOLOLOLOLOL
Welcom back cybah
By mg
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 11:00am
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She will continue to succeed.
By Wizard King
Thu, 05/30/2024 - 1:41pm
She will continue to succeed.
Good for him for throwing his hat in the ring
By Plen-T-Pak
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 11:03am
I'm sure it's as easy as he thinks it is, and maybe by the end of the movie he'll find true love at last, then realize that was what he was looking for all along.
I am so confused by these
By anon
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 11:38am
I am so confused by these North End restaurant owners. They seem to be living in some sort of bubble.
That said, I don't think it'd be a bad idea to eliminate parking on one or both sides of Hanover Street, widen the sidewalks, replace the concrete sidewalk with brick, and allow the restaurants to set up patio dining. Boston can set up a Business Improvement District to pay for it all.
He's going to find it rough to get votes
By Kaz
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 11:49am
On the one hand, he wants to court the "fuck Wu" vote...on the other hand, his name is "Jorge Mendoza" and those same people will want to deport him to Mexico sooner than vote for him.
Not Mexico, though he clearly is a native Spanish
By MC Slim JB
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 1:37pm
speaker and not at all one of the Italian-Americans he claims to speak for. Given the Basque-origin family name (his full surname is Mendoza-Iturralde,) I'd guess he immigrated to the US from Argentina.
I'm aware of this...
By Kaz
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 3:01pm
...but the people I'm talking about are not.
Which Florida city is he
By anon
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 11:50am
Which Florida city is he running for mayor?
Busy week for him
By Kaz
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 12:52pm
He's got a wedding coming up on Thursday next week to get ready for...and he's announcing his campaign now? Sheesh, talk about compounding your problems.
In the meantime, I wish the happy couple well. It seems like only 15 years ago when his soon-to-be wife was fresh out of college at 22 and joined the staff at Monica's where they met. He was 41 but took her under his wing and now look at them go...bride and groom.
By the way, do you think he knows he can't live in South Yarmouth and be mayor? Or do you think he lives at 4 Stillman Pl where he owns but doesn't claim the residential exemption? Or does the fact that every unit in 4 Stillman Pl appears to be rented (as far as I can tell) strongly suggest that Jorge isn't a resident of the city after all?
Either he doesn't live in Boston or he's too stupid to claim residency...either way not a strong start for his campaign to get my vote...
What can he offer? All
By Rwgfy
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 1:00pm
What can he offer? All conceivable tzars and offices have been created already.
Why?
By Angel
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 1:55pm
Why run for Mayor of Boston when he can lead a secession effort? Clearly, lack of outdoor dining in the North End is the civil rights issue of our time! I can't wait to see his outreach to Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan.
Seriously...the knives have been out for Mayor Wu since election night. There's racism here, but it's not coming from the Mayor.
I wholeheartedly support
By erik g
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 2:07pm
this chucklehead's plan to burn through a bunch of his own money tilting at windmills, and then pull 3% of the vote in the general election.
Vote the straight ticket
By Hardy Har Har
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 5:06pm
Donnie 'Punchy' Palmer, 8th CD
Catherine Vitale, councilor-at-very large
Shawn Nelson, councilor-at-large
WU has a solid base
By sully W
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 6:24pm
WU has a solid base throughout all the Boston neighborhoods LGBTQ crowd , the Elderly, the Hispanics love her , and all the political power makers in City will continue to back her.
The thing I find most
By Bob Leponge
Thu, 05/30/2024 - 10:35am
The thing I find most hilarious about the whole "Wu hates the North End" trope, is that, by placing some limits on privatization of public sidewalk space, she gave the North End something that the North End, by which I mean the people who actually live there) had been asking for. That the decision annoyed some of the out-of-town business owners who operate restaurants there, is a different matter entirely.
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