Whereas the upcoming mayoral race took heart stage this 12 months on the St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast in Boston, the State Auditor and her push for a glance underneath the hood on the Legislature could have stolen the present.
Audio system pulled their punches considerably this 12 months in comparison with final, however the gathering on the Ironworkers Native 7 Union Corridor in South Boston, held yearly forward of the town’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade and hosted by State Sen. Nick Collins, nonetheless had its fill of disparaging jokes made on the expense of the friends, whether or not they have been there or not.
Auditor Diana DiZoglio recast her quest to audit the Legislature as a Taylor Swift tune.
“I have this dream: the Senate President kills me for the money, she thinks I’ll find out was misspent. The Speaker meets her right outside my state house office, to tell the press that ‘I’m hellbent’,” DiZoglio sang to Swift’s 2022 hit single “Anti-Hero“. “They’ll tell you they’re allowed to break the law cause I’m too loud, and that it’s clearly all my fault. The audit law that you voted for just keeps going unenforced, because they’ve conspired of course, to say-”
“It’s me, hi! I’m the problem, it’s me. On your…dime — everybody agrees. I just want to shine a little sun, cause the voters said get it done — it must be exhausting always rooting for the antihero,” the Auditor sang.
DiZoglio’s musical digs got here following Senate President Karen Spilka’s handle. The senator started with a comment on President Donald Trump and his style decisions, however then turned the jokes on the auditor.
“Can you believe, Auditor DiZo- I mean, Donald Trump, is getting away with all of this?” Spilka stated, earlier than mentioning Trump’s trademark too-long tie as seen throughout a latest assembly with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“His tie was down to his knees. Did you see that? It was really long, almost touching his knees. I’m not sure which is longer, Trump’s ties, or the Auditor’s burn book,” she stated, earlier than asking “I don’t know — are we a Mean Girls crowd here?”
Mayor Michelle Wu introduced the spirit of a comedic roast usually current on the occasion, however spent most of her efforts aiming her barbs at one attendee specifically: mayoral opponent Josh Kraft.
Wu took Kraft to job over his wealth — he’s the son of New England Patriot’s proprietor Robert Kraft — and his pretty latest transfer to the town. She opened with a “legal disclosure” that she claimed her attorneys requested she learn aloud.
“On behalf of the city of Boston, I wish to affirm that the following material is fictitious. Any resemblance to actual events or actual persons, Republican members of Congress, border czars, nepo-babies, billionaires, developers — or State Senators shilling for the aforementioned developers and Republican billionairess — is purely coincidental,” she stated, earlier than ultimately acknowledging Kraft’s presence within the room.
“Josh: welcome to the race, welcome to Boston,” she stated. “Now, Josh is running as a man of the people, and it’s true. He is currently living in subsidized housing: a $2 million condo subsidized by his dad’s company.”
Kraft himself to the stage with introduction by Collins — who snuck in a dig at Wu over her personal transplantation into Boston by the use of Chicago — and apologized for taking so lengthy in attending to the microphone from his seat within the crowd. He seemed towards the place Wu was seated on the head desk.
“Don’t worry. Next year, I’ll have much, much better seating,” he stated.
The Kraft took purpose at Wu’s “$650,000 victory lap in Washington D.C.,” a reference to her latest look earlier than the Home Oversight Committee.
“You know she brought so many people there my dad offered the team plane,” he stated.
Joekes apart, Kraft continued, “in all seriousness, the Mayor crushed it,” when known as earlier than Congress.
“She was right on point, her one liners were great. She pushed those Republicans back. So much so, that she now has my vote for the United States Senate,” he continued.
“Eddie Markey watch your back.”
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