Metropolis politicians turned out in drive for John Nucci’s retirement occasion from Suffolk College.
He isn’t leaving the Massport board, and also you’ll by no means preserve him from working a crowd, however he’s stepping down as Suffolk’s senior vp for exterior affairs.
Former mayors Marty Walsh and Ray Flynn spoke about their good friend on Tuesday, extra on that in a minute. The night’s heartfelt remembrance got here from Kerri Abrams Perullo, an alum of Suffolk for each her bachelor’s and regulation levels, who gave Nucci the present of life.
Because the story goes, Perullo’s flight was delayed at Logan Airport, so she went to the snack store and grabbed a Boston Herald. On the entrance web page was an enchantment for an organ donor for Nucci, who desperately wanted a kidney match. Kerri picked up that day’s paper and made a courageous determination to be examined.
“She’s a saint,” mentioned Nucci, including that the irony of him being a Massport board member has by no means been misplaced with him.
“It’s still overwhelming,” Kerri mentioned of donating her kidney in June of 2018 to Nucci. Each of them, she added, are examined yearly in June and all is nicely.
“This is a night for me to remember,” Nucci mentioned on the occasion on the metropolis faculty. “My entire career is represented in this room tonight.”
He particularly thanked Kerri for giving him and his household “the gift of life.”
There was proclamations and tales, with Walsh sharing that Nucci provided up Suffolk U dorms for the homeless in the course of the pandemic in March of 2020 when it wasn’t the favored factor to do.
“We all knew people were dying — New York bought refrigerator trucks,” Walsh mentioned, recalling the horrifying first few weeks of the COVID lockdown. “John, we’ll never forget you for it … (you) saved a lot of lives.”
Ray Flynn, additionally a former mayor of Boston and ambassador to the Vatican, thanked Nucci for “never letting us down.”
Flynn additionally summed up what everybody within the room was sensing: “This is an amazing city.”
Amen.
‘Gonna sue your ass’
OK, now we all know how they assume inside Lawyer Basic Andrea Campbell’s workplace.
The MassGOP is condemning an announcement attributed to an assistant lawyer common over the state suing municipalities to drive compliance with the MBTA housing regulation.
At a discussion board on housing, AAG Eric Haskell mentioned of the regulation: “This is real. You gotta do this. We take it very seriously. And if you don’t do it, we’re gonna sue your ass,” Haskell instructed the viewers, Commonwealth Beacon reported.
That isn’t good, and MassGOP Chair Amy Carnevale agrees.
“The MBTA Communities Act was never intended to be a stick-first approach by the Commonwealth. What we’ve seen in the attorney general’s office is a knee-jerk reaction to sue first and ask questions later,” mentioned Carnevale.
“As communities continue to voice their concerns about the implementation of this law,” she added, “Governor Healey and Attorney General Campbell are failing in their duties to partner with cities and towns to respond to our housing crisis. This kind of cavalier attitude toward enforcement mechanisms is exactly why voters will agree with Republicans in 2026: One-party rule has sent Democrats on a power trip.”
